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WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Scott Franklin (R-Fla.), and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken requesting a member-level briefing and all information on the Biden administration’s plans to obtain oil from Iran, Venezuela, and other hostile foreign countries instead of encouraging energy production in the United States. The Republican lawmakers ...

Call on Bowser to provide answers about her plan to address rampant crime WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans today renewed their request for District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser to provide her plan to address rampant violent crime in the nation’s capital city. In the letter, the Republican lawmakers blast Democrat-led budget cuts to the Metropolitan Police Department’s budget (MPD) that ...

WASHINGTON — Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing the devastation and destruction wildfires have had on American communities. In his opening statement, Ranking Member Norman slammed Democrats for delaying a hearing on this important topic for over a year and highlighted how the Committee’s power is instead being abused to push their partisan investigation into the oil and gas industry. Instead of attacking domestic ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) introduced the Accountable Federal Employees Act (H.R. 7095) to reform the under-performing, inefficient, and unaccountable federal bureaucracy by enabling the discipline and removal of failing federal employees. Underperforming federal employees are notoriously hard to discipline or remove and continue to hinder agency missions. This legislation solidifies President Trump’s past executive orders ...

Washington, D.C. (March 16, 2022)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. James Comer, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Dick Durbin, Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, and Sen. John Cornyn, sent a 

Mayor Bowser and D.C. employees have used encrypted technology to skirt public records laws WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.), and Republican lawmakers called on the D.C. Office of the Inspector General to conduct a review of Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. employees’ use of technology to skirt public records laws. “Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans are ...

The OIG recently released a report finding the dilapidated office puts safety at risk WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today opened a probe into the U.S. Park Police’s staffing shortages, training deficiencies, and dilapidated facilities at the dispatch operations center in Washington, D.C. In a letter to Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Ranking Member Hice requests a member level briefing and all documents ...