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Letter to Federal Student Aid Chief Operating Officer James Runcie regarding the Higher Education Act
Letter
Letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles
Letter
Letter to GAO Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro regarding a review of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s efforts to address employee misconduct
Letter
Letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on designating land in Pinal County, AZ as a national historic site
Letter
Letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on designating land in Pinal County, AZ as a national historic site
Hearing
Firearms Lost: GSA’s Administration of the Surplus Firearm Donation Program

PURPOSE: To evaluate U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) management of the surplus firearm donation program and to address potential gaps in GSA’s efforts to account for and secure donated firearms. To examine deficiencies highlighted in the 2015 GSA Office of the Inspector General report. BACKGROUND: Started in 1999, the surplus firearm donation program provides firearms no longer needed by ...
Hearing
Geolocation Technology and Privacy

TAKEAWAYS: Chairman Chaffetz and Ranking Member Cummings will review updated guidance issued by the Department of Justice post S. v. Jones. These memos provide guidance on the use of geolocation technology by federal law enforcement. Various legal standards and guidelines are used to manage the use of geolocation technology at a local, state, and federal level. A clear standard is needed to govern the use of this technology. ...
Press Release
Chaffetz, Cummings to Review Unredacted Jones Memos

Watch Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) discuss today’s announcement during a House Oversight hearing on Geolocation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxE_rNnrdQ Background: In January 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the case of U.S. v. Jones that the government's installation of a GPS device on a vehicle constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. In the wake of this decision, the Department of Justice ...
Markup
Full Committee Business Meeting

  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider eight pieces of legislation along with three postal naming bills. The following actions were taken by the Committee: H.R. 4359, the Administrative Leave Reform Act (Rep. Chaffetz, ...
Press Release
Committee Advances Good Government Legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider eight pieces of legislation along with three postal naming bills. The following actions were taken by the Committee: H.R. 4359, the Administrative Leave Reform Act (Rep. ...