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Blasts Democrats’ political theater and reiterates urgent call for needed congressional oversight on border, inflation, and more WASHINGTON—Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing on Texas Democrats’ superspreader stunt by calling out Democrats for using the hearing as a spectacle while failing to conduct real oversight. Ranking Member Comer emphasized Democrats continue to ignore waste, fraud, ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor at Scripps Research Translational Institute, to brief the committees about gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan lab and the possibility COVID-19 was engineered to be ...

Demands documents to aid congressional investigation into massive “Snowden-like” IRS leak WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig demanding answers about continued leaks of personal financial information and any efforts to stop ProPublica from publishing additional articles containing taxpayer return information.  “No ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing about Texas Democrats’ superspreader stunt, in which Democratic Texas state legislators fled their duties for a Washington, D.C. vacation to avoid participating in the legislative process in the Texas legislature.

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted President Biden’s announcement requiring federal employees to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing, masks, and social distancing. “President Biden’s mandate on federal workers is another pandemic power grab placing our nation further on the pathway to vaccine passports. To be clear, I encourage all Americans to get vaccinated to protect themselves from the ...

Yellen secretly met with House Democrat about rental assistance relief while missing public hearing on the same topic WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), Committee on Financial Services Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Committee on Small Business Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) today blasted Treasury ...

WASHINGTON—Today, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and several Republican lawmakers wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the massive delays Americans are experiencing in renewing or applying for a new passport. Currently a backlog of more than two million passport applications exists, which results in an estimated wait time of up to 12 weeks. Prior to the pandemic, processing typically ranged from four to six ...