President's Unrealistic Political Budget Puts American Taxpayers Last
"This budget is simply not grounded in reality," said Brady. “Despite imposing job-killing tax hikes on Americans and even then still projecting a $6.6 trillion deficit over the next 10 years, the President apparently thinks money grows on trees because not once in this document is the word ‘austeri...
New unemployment numbers do not tell the whole story
Whether we care to admit it or not, 2.8 million more people were still out of work in January 2012 than the 12.8 million officially counted as unemployed. Our labor force should not be shrinking because people stop actively seeking jobs. It should be increasing because, like 243,000 other Americ...
Rep. Kevin Brady's Opening Statement during JEC hearing on February 7, 2012.
Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Kevin Brady, presents his opening statment at the JEC hearing: "Bolstering the Economy: Helping American Families by Reauthorizing the Payroll Tax Cut and UI Benefits". He agrees that these provisions need to be extended but they also need to be paid fo...
Senator Lee speaks during Joint Economic Committee Hearing on the Payroll Tax and UI extensions
Senator Lee, askes witnesses during the JEC hearing on February 7, 2012, about how the extension of unemployment insurance benefits effects the length of time people are unemployed.
Rep. Kevin Brady questions witnesses at JEC hearing on February 7, 2012
Rep. Keving Brady (R-TX),Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, expresses the need to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits for the rest of this year, but they have to be paid for. The payroll tax holiday of 2011 has already put a large hole in the Social Security trust fund. He ...
Rep. Mulvaney (R-SC) questions witnesses during JEC hearing on payroll tax and UI extension
Rep. Mulvaney, republican member of the Joint Economic Committee, asks what is wrong with drug testing as a requirement to receive unemployment insurance, during the JEC hearing: "Bolstering the Economy: Helping American Families by Reauthorizing the Payroll Tax Cut and UI Benefits".
Representative Duffy (R-WI), during JEC hearing on February 7, 2012.
Rep. Duffy, agrees that there is a need to help people who have fallen on hard times, but there needs to be a way to weed out the "bad apples" those who are abusing the system and soaking up the benefits when they shouldn't be.
Rep. Mulvaney's second round of quesitons during JEC hearing on February 7, 2012.
Rep. Mulvaney, talks about how unemployment rate is dropping because the work force is shrinking. In the recent employment report the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3% but there are some troubling underlying facts that are going unnoticed .
Opening Statement Vice Chairman Kevin Brady
There is a strong bipartisan consensus in Congress to extend both of these expiring provisions through the end of this year. However, serious differences remain over how we should pay for these expensive extensions and whether we should reform the Unemployment Insurance program. As popular as the p...
Rep. Brady provides his opening statement at the JEC hearing on the January Employment report
Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Kevin Brady, presents his opening statment to the Committee and witnesses on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' January Employment Situation Report. Although the new payroll jobs have increased this encouraging data only masks the fact that labor force par...
