Floor Statements

  • Camp Statement - H.R. 2378, As Amended: “The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act”
    Sep 29, 2010  - Let me start by saying that it is truly disappointing that this is the only trade bill in the past two years that has been marked up by the Ways and Means Committee.  I find it unacceptable that this is the sum total of our trade agenda. While this legislation addresses an important issue, it wil... More
  • Camp Statement H.R. 1586
    Aug 10, 2010  - Last Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is still at 9.5%.  It would be much higher if the official calculations also looked at the fast-growing number of Americans who have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work. So while Congress should be here trying to find way... More
  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5982 - Small Business Tax Relief Act
    Jul 30, 2010  - Last night, I intended to offer a motion to recommit that would have eliminated the new, onerous, job-killing 1099 requirement that is in the health care law.  In addition to helping small businesses, the motion to recommit would have better protected taxpayers from erroneously paying too much in he... More
  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5893, the so-called “Investing in American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010”
    Jul 29, 2010  - It has been nearly one-and-a-half years since the President signed the one-trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill into law and now the majority has come up with a new “make it in America” agenda.  Which begs the question, if stimulus was such a success, why don’t we already make it in America?  The facts... More
  • Camp Closing Remarks: H.R. 5893, the so-called “Investing in American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010”
    Jul 29, 2010  - Madam Speaker, the facts are clear: with unemployment stuck at nearly 10 percent and millions of jobs lost, the Democrats’ trillion-dollar stimulus bill has failed. So, what is the Majority’s response?  Raise taxes on American jobs and give more money to state and local governments.  That won’t cre... More
  • Boustany Floor Statement: Unemployment Insurance Motion To Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 4213
    Jul 22, 2010  - Republicans want to help those looking for work, but struggling in the current economic slow down.  But we also agree with the American people that new spending must be paid for.  This latest unemployment insurance extender bill fails to do what the American people want.  Instead, the Democratic a... More
  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension
    Jul 1, 2010  - It is said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  Well, that is exactly what the Democrats are doing today – trying to pass for the third time an unpaid for extension of unemployment benefits that the Senate – and the... More
  • Camp Closing Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension
    Jul 1, 2010  - This debate has shown the lengths Democrats will go to in order to avoid paying for any government spending – even calling the eighth extension of unemployment benefits an emergency.  One would hope even Congress could see it coming after the first seven times? We could pass this bill with broad ... More
  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension
    Jun 30, 2010  - What has changed since yesterday?  Nothing.  And, certainly not the Democrats’ willingness to pay for government spending.  So, just as we did yesterday, we have a bill before us that will increase the federal deficit by $34 billion. Let me be clear – I support and Republicans have supported extend... More
  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension
    Jun 29, 2010  - Here we go again.  Another month, another bill extending unemployment benefits and extending the federal deficit. Only this time the Democrats have now waited almost an entire month since these programs last expired to come up with a plan for how to extend them, leaving hundreds of thousands of l... More