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Comer: Time to REIN IN Bidenflation

Americans continue to suffer after President Biden’s record spending sent inflation soaring WASHNGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 347, the Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation Act, or the REIN IN Act. Over the last two years, President Biden spent over a trillion dollars without Congress via executive actions, while American ...

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Comer Opens Markup of Legislation to Protect Speech from Government Censorship

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s markup by urging the committee to pass legislation to protect Americans’ speech from government censorship. At the markup, the Oversight Committee will consider the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act (H.R. 140), the Accountability for Government Censorship Act (

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Comer Introduces Bill to Prevent Biden Admin from Discriminating Based on Labor Affiliation

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced H.R. 1209, the Fair and Open Competition Act (FOCA), to prevent the federal government from discriminating against contractors based on labor affiliation and require neutrality on Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) in federal procurement. Upon introduction, Chairman Comer said: “President Biden’s Project Labor Agreement order favors labor unions, raises ...

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Oversight Committee Advances Legislation to Protect Speech from Government Censorship

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability passed two bills to protect speech from government censorship, the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act (H.R. 140) and the Accountability for Government Censorship Act (H.R. 1162). The Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act, introduced by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), expands the Hatch Act—the law prohibiting federal employees from engaging in political activities in their official ...

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Wenstrup: We Will Deliver Facts from the COVID-19 Pandemic Response to the American People

WASHINGTON — House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s roundtable titled “Preparing For the Future By Learning From the Past: Examining COVID Policy Decisions” by noting the importance of the work before the subcommittee in the new congress and laying out the areas of investigation, ...

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Comer: Biden’s Labor Secretary Nomination Alarming for Taxpayers

Julie Su oversaw California’s unemployment insurance program where at least $32 billion was lost to fraud WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Julie Su as the next Department of Labor Secretary: “It’s alarming that President Biden is nominating Julie Su as the next Department of Labor Secretary. She has a history of allowing rampant ...

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Comer Requests Transcribed Interviews with Seven Chief Patrol Agents Battling Biden’s Border Crisis 

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Troy Miller requesting transcribed interviews with seven U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agents currently responsible for managing critical sectors of the U.S. border. The uniqueness of each sector on the southern border demonstrates a need for the committee to obtain additional information to guide legislative ...

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Comer, Fallon Call on EPA to Provide Docs on Environmental Justice Grants Paid for by Inflation Reduction Act

Request information and staff-level briefing related to grantees under the IRA that failed to meet health or environmental needs WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist in conducting oversight of the agency’s administration of environmental justice ...

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Wenstrup & Comer Widen COVID Origins Investigation

WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) are calling on the Department of Energy, the Department of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to provide information necessary to the Select Subcommittee and Oversight Committee’s investigation into COVID origins. This follows the Republican lawmakers’ previous requests to the Department of Health and ...

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Oversight Republicans Launch Investigation into DOT Secretary Buttigieg’s Failure to Promptly Respond to Ohio’s Train Derailment Catastrophe   

Call on DOT to be transparent and provide all documents and communications related to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans launched an investigation into U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s failure to promptly respond to the train derailment catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio and ensuing environmental and ...