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WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the House Democrats’ unnecessary $25 billion bailout for the U.S. Postal Service. The bill is nothing more than a giveaway to unions and trial lawyers that will hamstring the Postal Service, exacerbating their pre-existing fiscal problems. “Democrats have fabricated a baseless conspiracy theory about the Postal Service and now they are asking American ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s announcement that he will pause operational reforms to improve the U.S. Postal Service's efficiency until after the 2020 election. “It’s shameful that Democrats continue to manufacture baseless and wildly irresponsible conspiracy theories in order to scare the American people and undermine President Trump. In doing so, all they ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the Democrats’ conspiracy theory regarding the United States Postal Service: “The Democrats’ wild and baseless conspiracy theory about the United States Postal Service is irresponsible and only undermines the American people’s faith in the integrity of the election and our institutions. The Committee on Oversight and Reform has a tremendous opportunity to ...

WASHINGTON – Today, top Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the House Committee on the Judiciary sent letters launching a probe into the District of Columbia’s unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and censorship and called on the District to uniformly respect the First Amendment rights of all citizens. On August 1, 2020, the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department arrested two individuals affiliated with the Students for Life of America for ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Subcommittee on National Security held a joint briefing with the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation to examine China’s persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. In July, National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) called on the House Oversight Democratic leadership to hold a hearing on the Chinese ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Republican members of the Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos probing the lawfulness of local orders prohibiting private and parochial schools from safely reopening and providing ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the statement below on the Office of Special Counsel’s advisory opinion stating that the Hatch Act does not prohibit President Trump from delivering his Republican National Convention acceptance speech on White House grounds. “In response to a request from Chairwoman Maloney, the Office of ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) raised concerns about Twitter’s lack of internal controls to protect the security of user accounts and called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to provide information about what measures and employee training the company has put in place to prevent cyberattacks. The day after the July ...

On Friday, in an effort to hasten and strengthen America’s recovery from the economic crisis driven by coronavirus lockdowns, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) launched a sweeping inquiry into government regulations and their impacts on recovery, going back to the global financial crisis of 2008. In order to conduct this wide-ranging survey, Ranking Member Comer is writing to a long list of businesses and trade associations to “document what has worked and ...

On Thursday, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) requested information from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the massive hack that commandeered several high-profile accounts the day before. “Breaches similar to yesterday’s have the potential to jeopardize national and economic security and disrupt the lives of millions of Americans,” warned Ranking Member Comer in the