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McClain: SF Fed Failed to Oversee Silicon Valley Bank Despite Clear Warning Signs

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today opened a hearing titled “A Failure of Supervision: Bank Failures and the San Francisco Federal Reserve” by emphasizing that the San Francisco Federal Reserve failed to provide regulatory supervision and ignored obvious warning signs of a bank run at the ...
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Hearing Wrap Up: Department of Energy’s Proposed Rule Regulates Gas Stoves Out of Existence, Further Strangles U.S. Consumer Choice

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing titled, “Consumer Choice on the Backburner: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Gas Stoves.” Subcommittee members discussed with witnesses how the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed ...
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Comer & Grassley Blast FBI for Refusing to Provide Subpoenaed Record Alleging Then-VP Biden Engaged in a Bribery Scheme

Comer threatens to initiate contempt of Congress proceedings if Director Wray continues to defy subpoena WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today are blasting FBI Director Christopher Wray for defying a congressional subpoena for an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The document, an FBI-generated FD-1023 ...
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Comer: Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are Making Billions at the Expense of Patients and Taxpayers

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled “The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers In Prescription Drug Markets Part I: Self-Interest Or Health Care?” In his opening statement, Chairman Comer emphasized that Americans are ...
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Comer Demands Biden Administration Cooperate with Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on senior officials in the Biden Administration to fully cooperate with the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Oversight Committee has obtained testimony from Inspector General John Sopko that the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are obstructing SIGAR’s ...
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Wenstrup Threatens Subpoena as Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten Obstructs COVID-19 School Closures Investigation

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) sent a final letter to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten requesting supplementary documents and communications related to her influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s school reopening guidance. Ms. Weingarten’s testimony before the Select Subcommittee in April revealed previously unknown information that raises additional questions about AFT’s ...
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Hearing Wrap Up: Pharmacy Benefit Managers Prioritize Their Pocketbooks Over Patient Care

Congress can work in a bipartisan fashion to address unchecked PBMs WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers In Prescription Drug Markets Part I: Self-Interest Or Health Care?” At the hearing, members and witnesses highlighted ...
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Comer, Sessions & Boebert Lead Probe of Heightened Federal Agency Telework

Federal Workforce Telework Rates and Policies Remain Largely a Mystery WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), and Oversight Committee Republicans sent letters to 25 federal agencies to conduct oversight over telework and remote work rates and policies. In the letter, the lawmakers request ...
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Chairs Comer, Jordan, Green Demand Information from DHS on Risk Posed by Aliens with Terrorist Ties Crossing the Border

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) are investigating how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is handling the elevated national security risk presented by an increasing number of aliens with terrorist ties illegally crossing the United States’ southern border. In a letter to DHS Secretary ...
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Wenstrup Demands Accountability for COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths, Requests Transcribed Interview with Former Governor Andrew Cuomo

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is demanding accountability from former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro regarding the decision, or the decision of their predecessor, to mandate nursing homes and long-term care facilities admit contagious and untested COVID-19 patients. Chairman Wenstrup is calling on the four lawmakers to ...