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WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is launching an investigation into the Federal of Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) failure to report complete, accurate national crime data. In 2023, the FBI initially reported an estimated 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime in 2022 but later quietly revised the report to show a 4.5 percent increase––a staggering 6.2 percent change. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chairman ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) are advancing bipartisan oversight to tackle improper payments and fraud in federal government programs. In a letter to the Comptroller General at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Gene Dodaro, they request information on how federal agencies are identifying root causes of improper payments and implementing corrective actions and ...

By releasing a false transcript, the Biden-Harris White House may be in violation of the Presidential Records Act WASHINGTON—House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today are raising concerns the Biden-Harris White House may have violated the Presidential Records Act by revising President Biden’s remarks, in which he referred to President Trump’s supporters as ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is following up on the Committee’s subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for documents, communications, and intelligence reports in DHS’s custody related to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). DHS has not complied with the subpoena, and Chairman Comer is now releasing partial DHS internal communications obtained from a whistleblower, ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing the Committee’s investigation into NewsGuard’s impact on protected First Amendment speech and how its contracts with government agencies may contribute to censorship under the guise of combatting misinformation. In a follow up letter to NewsGuard Chief Executive Officers Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, Chairman Comer requests additional documents and communications from NewsGuard ...