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Dave Camp 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 . Camp represented since 1993 , and previously served one term representing . A member of the Republican Party , Camp was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means , serving from 2011–2015 . In March 2014 , he announced that he would not run for re-election . Early life , education , and law career . Camp was born in Midland , Michigan , the son of Norma L . ( Nehil ) and Robert D . Camp . He graduated from H.H . Dow High School in 1971 . He attended the University of Sussex , Brighton , England , 1973–1974 and earned his Bachelor of Arts , magna cum laude , in 1975 from Albion College in Albion , Michigan . He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1978 . From 1979-91 , he was a partner with the law firm Riecker , Van Dam & Barker in Midland , Michigan . Camp was diagnosed with early-stage non-Hodgkins large B-cell lymphoma in 2012 . After several months of chemotherapy , Camp announced he was cancer-free in December 2012 . Early political career . Camp worked as a member of the Midland County , Michigan board of canvassers and a member of the Midland County Republican executive committee . For 4 years he was special assistant to the Michigan attorney general from 1980 to 1984 . He served another 4 years on the staff of his boyhood friend U.S . Representative Bill Schuette ( R-MI ) from 1984 to 1987 , before running and winning the 102nd District of the Michigan House of Representatives in 1988 and serving one term . U.S . House of Representatives . Elections . When U.S . Congressman Schuette of Michigans 10th congressional district decided in 1990 to run for the U.S . Senate against incumbent U.S . Senator Carl Levin , Camp ran to replace him and won the endorsement of his former boss . In the Republican primary he faced former U.S . Congressman James Dunn and former State Senator Alan Cropsey . Despite trailing Dunn in early polls , Camp won the Republican primary with a plurality of 33% . He defeated Cropsey ( 30% ) , Allen ( 19% ) , Dunn ( 18% ) , and Simcox ( 1% ) . He won the general election with 65% of the vote . After redistricting , he decided to run in Michigans 4th congressional district . He won the general election with 62% of the vote . He never won re-election with less than 61% of the vote and never had a primary challenge . Tenure . 102nd Congress . Camp served on the House Committee on Agriculture . For his work on behalf of Michigan agriculture , Camp received the Golden Plow Award in 1998 , the American Farm Bureau Federations highest honor given to only one Member of the House in each Congress . 108th Congress . In the 108th Congress , he served as a deputy majority whip and served on the House Ways and Means Committee . Speaker Denny Hastert chose Camp to serve on the Select United States House Committee on Homeland Security , which had been created by the House of Representatives on January 7 , 2003 . While on the committee Camp was the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security , where he helped develop policies to secure U.S . land and maritime borders in the wake of the September 11 , 2001 terrorist attacks . 109th and 110th Congresses . Camp was the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health , and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures , respectively . He served seven terms as a Member of the Subcommittee on Human Resources , and six terms as a Member of the Subcommittee on Trade . As a junior Member of the committee in 1996 , Camp played a role in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act . 111th Congress . Camp served as Ranking Member of the full committee on Ways and Means . During his tenure as Ranking Member , Camp helped advance Republican alternatives to the 2009 stimulus law and 2010 health care law . The Camp alternative to the 2009 stimulus law would have cut taxes and provided incentives for small businesses to hire new employees . He also offered an alternative plan during the 2010 debate on health care reform . Camp was one of three House Republicans appointed by then-Minority Leader John Boehner ( R-OH ) to serve on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform , known as the Bowles-Simpson Commission , formed in February 2010 . It was charged with identifying policies to improve the U.S . fiscal situation in the medium term , and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term . While on the Commission , Camp co-led the Tax Reform Working Group and was a member of the Mandatory Spending Working Group . 112th Congress . Camp was involved in the House Republicans January 2011 repeal efforts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . Camp lead the repeal of the health care laws 1099 tax reporting requirement , which some small businesses said would hurt their operations and ability to employ workers . 113th Congress . Camp introduced the Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act into the House on September 27 , 2013 . The bill reauthorized the Adoption Incentives Program that focuses on helping states to find adoptive parents for foster children and passed the House on October 22 , 2013 . Camp later introduced the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act ( H.R . 4980 ; 113th Congress ) which passed the House on July 23 , 2014 . On June 26 , 2014 , Camp introduced the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 ( H.R . 4994 ; 113th Congress ) , a bill intended to change and improve Medicares post-acute care ( PAC ) services and how they are reported on . Committee assignments . - Committee on Ways and Means ( Chairman ) - Joint Committee on Taxation ( Chairman ) - Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Caucus memberships . - Building a Better America Caucus - International Conservation Caucus - Life Insurance Caucus - Sportsmens Caucus - Zero Capital Gains Tax Caucus - Congressional Cement Caucus Positions and policies . Im a conservative on fiscal policy , but Im a moderate on some other issues , he told Congressional Quarterly in 2006 . He told National Review in 2007 that he feels more at home with the conservative Republican Steering Committee . Camp is part of the moderate bloc through his participation in the Main Street Partnership . He generally voted along party lines in the House , siding with Republicans 93.7 percent of the time during the 111th Congress . The American Conservative Union gave him a lifetime rating of 89 percent , his score with the Club for Growth is considerably lower . Camp voted for both the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Central American Free Trade Agreement . Camp opposes abortion and same-sex marriage . He voted twice for President George W . Bushs tax cuts , and supports their full extension . He pushed for private accounts for Social Security and he supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . Camp supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq , and he backed President Bushs decision to send more troops to Iraq in 2007 with some reservations . In August 2013 Camp announced his support for reforming welfare again . He believes that many safety net programs do not have enough requirements attached to them for people to receive benefits . Camp introduced the Tax Reform Act of 2014 on February 26 , 2014 . 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 , would create up to 1.8 million jobs and increase gross domestic product by up to 1.4% in 2023 . Post-political career . Approximately one year after announcing his decision not to run for re-election to Congress , it was announced that Camp would be joining prominent accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior policy advisor .