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Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena for Veteran Affairs’ Lavish Conference Spending Records

WASHINGTON – The House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today issued a subpoena to Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for communications related to the Department’s extravagant July and August 2011 human resources conferences held in Orlando, Fla. The conference series cost approximately $5 million, from which $52,000 was allegedly spent to make a Patton parody video, $31,000 spent on a reception and $84,000 on promotional items ...
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Issa: President Must Work with Congress on Reforms

Chairman Issa responds to Obama’s remarks presenting a “new management agenda”
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Oversight to Examine Proposed Changes to Eliminate Waste, Improve Management of Combined Federal Campaign

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Census Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) will convene a hearing entitled, “The Combined Federal Campaign: Making Every Dollar Count” on Wednesday, July 10th. The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the largest workplace giving program that allows federal ...
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House Passes Oversight Legislation to Help Veteran Service Organizations

WASHINGTON - Today, on a vote of 387-1, the House of Representatives approved legislation advanced by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to make it easier for veteran service organizations to obtain surplus federal property. “We owe our freedom to the servicemen and women who have bravely defended our nation. As we welcome them home, we should also help them transition back ...
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Issa Statement on Obamacare Implementation Delay

"The House has repeatedly voted to repeal Obamacare because it will not work and is bad public policy."
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Oversight Committee Examines “Small Business Mandates” Limiting Health Insurance Options

WASHINGTON –House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced that he and Subcommittee Chairmen James Lankford, R-Okla., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking more information about Obamacare implementation in light of recent “small business mandates,” which limit the ability of small businesses to purchase competitive insurance plans for ...