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Previous Republican inquiries remain unanswered as border facilities are pushed to the brink  WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans sent another letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reiterating their concerns about the Biden Administration’s recent actions to unravel the former administration’s deterrent-focused border policies and their failure ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s announcement it encountered over 100,000 illegal immigrants in February, a 28 percent increase over January 2021: “The facts don’t lie: President Biden has created a crisis at the southern border. On day ...

WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.), and Congressman Bob Good (R-Va.) this week introduced the Guidance Out Of Darkness (GOOD) Act, which requires agencies to publish their regulatory guidance on the Internet ...

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) today called for a bipartisan investigation into the effects school closures are having on children with disabilities, and state and local ...

WASHINGTON – With new revelations that political aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deliberately interfered with state public health officials in order to mask the true magnitude of COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the state, Republican Congressional leaders urged their House Democrat counterparts to hold a joint hearing regarding the undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes. The letter was signed by Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) expressing concerns over the current crisis occurring at the southern border stemming from President Biden’s open borders policies. Recent reports indicate container facilities holding unaccompanied children are now nearly overflowing and a surge of illegal immigration has become inevitable due to President ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “America Reports” on Fox News today to discuss the current crisis occurring at the southern border stemming from President Biden’s open borders policies. Ranking Member Comer noted container facilities holding unaccompanied children are nearly overflowing and President Biden plans to open even more facilities to accommodate the surge of illegal immigration. He concluded the interview ...