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WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is threatening the compulsory process if the Department of Justice (DOJ) fails to produce documents relating to its enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requirements with certain entities, including Al Jazeera and TikTok. In a second letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Chairman Comer is renewing his request for documents and information regarding DOJ’s FARA ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced a markup will take place on Wednesday, April 10 at 10:00 am ET to consider a series of legislation. WHAT: Full Committee Markup H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act: The bill amends title 13 to add a citizenship inquiry to the decennial census and exclude noncitizens from the apportionment base for the 2030 census and any ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are conducting oversight of the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, specifically related to alcohol consumption. In letters to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on the Office of Personnel Management’s final rule, “Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles,” which insulates federal workers from accountability: “OPM’s final rule is yet ...

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing tiled “Oversight of the Food and Drug Administration.” The hearing will examine the Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigations into the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) response to several issues, including the infant formula crisis and food safety, drug shortages, facility inspections, hemp ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), E&C Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), and E&C Subcommittee on Health Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) announced that EcoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth) President Dr. Peter Daszak will appear ...