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The Biden Administration appears to be engaged in an intentional effort to evade law requiring a special envoy to be Senate confirmed WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing to push the Biden Administration for information related to the activities of the office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) and is expressing new concerns over John Podesta’s elevation to Envoy John Kerry’s role ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on Hunter Biden’s refusal to appear at a hearing alongside his business associates: “The House Oversight Committee has called Hunter Biden’s bluff. Hunter Biden for months stated he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates that he worked with for years, he is refusing to come. During our deposition ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is today conducting oversight of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) inspections and investigations of accounting firms conducting audits for companies based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In a letter to PCAOB Chair Erica Williams, Chairman Comer requests documents and information to assist the Committee’s inquiry into how PCAOB applies federal law with respect to ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing with Special Counsel Robert Hur about President Biden’s willful retention of classified materials. During his remarks, Chairman Comer highlighted how the Oversight Committee’s investigation has exposed the White ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas.) today opened a hearing titled “The Power Struggle: Examining the Reliability and Security of America’s Electrical Grid” by discussing the threats facing America’s power grid security and reliability. Subcommittee Chairman Fallon warned that the power grid is unprepared to handle new regulations proposed under the Biden Administration.

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs today held a hearing titled “The Power Struggle: Examining the Reliability and Security of America’s Electrical Grid” to examine ongoing threats and challenges to affordable, reliable power to the United States. At the hearing, lawmakers discussed how Biden Administration actions to ...

WASHINGTON—Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a markup to consider a series of bills that address federal agency use of artificial intelligence, uncontrolled crime in the nation’s capital, U.S. Postal Service operations, and the regulatory process. “The Oversight Committee took important steps this week, in a mostly bipartisan fashion, to legislatively ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on reports President Biden will order the U.S. military to construct a port in Gaza: “President Biden’s plan to use Americans’ hard-earned money to build a port in Gaza will only fast-track U.S. taxpayer-funded aid into the hands of terrorists such as Hamas and put U.S. servicemembers’ lives at risk. Just this morning, I met with the USAID ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on President Joe Biden’s state of the union address: “No amount of spin from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can change the fact that America is in decline after three years of Joe Biden’s presidency. Americans can see it with their own eyes. On day one in office, President Biden signaled to the world that our border was open. Now we have the worst border ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) introduced the GSA Technology Accountability Act to ensure GSA is held accountable to Congress and the American people in how it spends taxpayer dollars on technology projects and initiatives. “Almost a year ago, we began an investigation into Login.gov after the GSA Inspector General reported that Login.gov, which falls under Technology Transformation Services (TTS) ...