Economic Recovery

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) called the report "troubling news." "With job growth slowing, involuntary part-time work rising, and the labor force shrinking, this proves that our economy isn’t creating opportunity for all Americans,” Brady said. Read more

In this week’s Monday Morning Memo podcast, the People's House is hard at work protecting your email privacy and solutions for our dismal economic recovery including help for American manufacturers. Read more

U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady joins former Reagan Budget guru Larry Kudlow on the radio to talk tax reform and economic freedom. Read more

He’s only been in his chair since November, and already Rep. Kevin Brady sees three reasons America is ripe for reform. Read more

Myth: The omnibus gives Obama everything he wants. Fact: Don’t let Democrat and media spin distract you from Republican victories. I was one of the leaders to remove the decades-long ban on exporting crude oil, which is estimated to create more than 300,000 jobs in Texas. I voted to gut the job-killing, over regulating EPA, setting the agency back more than 25 years. With recent terrorist attacks, the bill also puts increased security clearance processes in place to prevent foreign terrorists fr... Read more

Washington, DC — On Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation reforming the nation’s central bank, including a new bipartisan national commission championed by Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady of Texas. Brady’s signature Centennial Monetary Commission establishes a bipartisan commission to evaluate the performance of the Federal Reserve over the first 100 years of its existence – specifically on the economy, inflation and financial stability – and to recommend to Congres... Read more

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, (R-TX), released the following statement on the President’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2016, which authorizes funding for the U.S. S. Department of Defense. “The world is in chaos, with terrorism knocking on America’s door, and President Obama rejects Congress’s bipartisan call to fully fund our troops and national defense? This is dangerous and reckless. There is no worst possible time than now to hold America’... Read more

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, made the following statement in reaction to the release of the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) on Thursday, October 15 showing that two new records had been set for inflation adjusted per person receipts by the federal government. “Washington is flush with dollars, collecting more money per person for the budget year and more money than any twelve-month period on record, even adju... Read more

Fact: Only twice has the federal government collected more revenue per person (adjusted for inflation) in a twelve month period than it has over the past twelve months. Fact: All-time record may be set by September 30 if current pace of federal revenue growth continues. Quote from Representative Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee: “Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Treasury Department confirm that Washington doesn’t have from a revenue prob... Read more

4 Graphs: Why Paul Krugman is Dead Wrong about Education Rep. Kevin Brady July 9, 2015 How wrong can New York Times columnist Paul Krugman be? In June of 2013 he summarily declared that “Education, then, is no longer the answer to rising inequality, if it ever was (which I doubt).” Set aside that Krugman has recently devolved into a frequently petty, acerbic defender of tired, top-down liberal doctrines. It’s his increasingly bizarre economic statements that deserve scrutiny. For example: Dr. K... Read more