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Committees Request Information on Conservation Land Designations by Obama Administration

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), along with Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY), sent letters to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Council on Environmental Quality Managing Director Christy Goldfuss regarding the White House’s designation of 1.8 million acres of land in California for conservation under ...

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Setting the Record Straight on Retaliation at EPA

Committee releases email from July 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, in response to the release of an email written just yesterday, claiming retaliation against employee Miguel Del Toral did not occur, the Committee released information more accurately depicting the circumstances within U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 as the crisis was unfolding last summer. EPA Region 5 Regulations Manager Miguel Del Toral wrote a

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Chaffetz Statement on Allegations of Misconduct By Federal Judge

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after serious allegations were raised against a sitting United States District Court Judge. “Our initial review of the allegations has caused alarm and distress over their serious nature. The Utah Attorney General recently made the Committee ...

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Oversight Leaders Seek to Shine Light on DOJ Office of Legal Counsel

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, kicking off Sunshine Week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting documents to better understand the Office of Legal Counsel's (OLC) opinion-making process. OLC is responsible for authoring opinions that provide legal direction to executive branch agencies. Due to increasing FOIA requests, OLC is providing ...

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Chaffetz, Cummings to Review Unredacted Jones Memos

Watch Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) discuss today’s announcement during a House Oversight hearing on Geolocation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxE_rNnrdQ Background: In January 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the case of U.S. v. Jones that the government's installation of a GPS device on a vehicle constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. In the wake of this decision, the Department of Justice ...

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Committee Advances Good Government Legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider eight pieces of legislation along with three postal naming bills. The following actions were taken by the Committee: H.R. 4359, the Administrative Leave Reform Act (Rep. ...