Opening Statement of Vice Chairman Kevin Brady
The labor market is not recovering fast enough considering how depressed it has been. Thirty-one months into the Reagan recovery, we had added 8.7 million new payroll jobs. Today, however, the economy, at best, is at a crawl. We still are 6 million jobs short of the prerecession employment level;...
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) Speaks on Bloomberg Live Feb. 2, 2012
Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Kevin Brady, talks on Bloomberg about his introduction of legistlation to limit the Federal Reserve to a single mandate, of price stability. He also discusses the problems involved in becoming more fiscally responsible without hurting the struggling eco...
Hearing Announcement: Bolstering the Economy: Helping American Families by Reauthorizing the Payroll Tax Cut and UI Benefits
A hearing before the Joint Economic Committee will be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, at 2:30 p.m., in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.
CBO Report Confirms that Obama Policies have Failed, Brady Says.
Rep. Brady (R-TX), Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, cited today’s report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as fresh proof that President Obama’s economic policies are failing. “According to the CBO, slowing economic growth will cause the unemployment rate to rise during this...
Hearing Announcement: "The Employment Situation: January 2012"
A hearing before the Joint Economic Committee will be held on Friday, February 3, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., in room 210 of the Cannon House Office Building.
A Strong Recovery Needs More than One Good Quarter
U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the vice chairman and top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee released the following statement on today’s initial 4th-quarter GDP numbers. “Today’s report from Bureau of Economic Analysis has some welcome news as the U.S. economy grew at its fastest...
President Obama says NO to Shovel Ready Jobs
Washington, DC -- U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee and a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee, issued the following response to the Obama Administration's decision to reject Canada's Keystone XL pipeline permit. "From an economi...
A Bit of Good News Just isn't Enough for this Anemic Recovery
The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported that in December 2011, 200,000 payroll jobs were created and that the unemployment rate edged down to 8.5 percent. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said today “While the last month’s rise in the number of payroll...
Mr. President: Why the change?
“This Congress cannot and should not leave for vacation until they have made sure that tax increase doesn’t happen. Let me repeat that: Congress should not and cannot go on vacation before they have made sure that working families aren’t seeing their taxes go up by $1,000 … I expect all of us to d...
Sen. Levin Latest Repatriation Attack Misses Point
U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, a leading advocate in the House for bringing profits home to America, and author of the Freedom to Invest Act which has 104 House sponsors, dismissed Senator Levin’s latest attempt today to attack American business as “missing the point”.