David Lee Camp (born July 9, 1953) is a former American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015.
For his work on behalf of Michigan agriculture, Camp received the Golden Plow Award in 1998, the American Farm Bureau Federation's highest honor given to only one Member of the House in each Congress.
As a junior Member of the committee in 1996, Camp played a role in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.
[citation needed] Camp was involved in the House Republicans' January 2011 attempt to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[citation needed] Camp introduced the Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act into the House on September 27, 2013.
4994; 113th Congress), a bill intended to change and improve Medicare's post-acute care (PAC) services and how they are reported on.
[14] The American Conservative Union gave him a lifetime rating of 89 percent, his score with the Club for Growth is considerably lower.
He pushed for private accounts for Social Security and he supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
In August 2013 Camp announced his support for cutting benefits to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
[16] The congressional nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation calculated the bill would allow 95 percent of filers to get the lowest tax rate possible by claiming the standard deduction,[17] would create up to 1.8 million jobs and increase gross domestic product by up to 1.4% in 2023.
[18] When the Chicago office of the Environmental Protection Agency took action against Dow Chemical regarding dioxin pollution of waterways leading into the Saginaw River, he had regional EPA director Mary Gade fired in 2008.
The resulting reluctance of that EPA regional office to take action regarding major environmental issues led to their inaction in the Flint Water Crisis.