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Letter to USSS Director Joseph Clancy Requesting Additional Information on Security Breaches
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Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry Regarding the New Consulate Compound in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
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Cybersecurity: The Department of the Interior

HEARING PURPOSE: To explore the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) role in the recent U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. To review the DOI Inspector General’s (IG) recent investigative reports.  HEARING BACKGROUND:
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Criminal Justice Reform, Part II

TAKEAWAYS: Criminal justice reform is a bipartisan/bicameral effort. The federal prison population is growing at an unsustainable rate and is nearly 40 percent over capacity. Populations have grown from 24,000 federal prisoners in 1980, to 219, 000 in 2013. The Bureau of Prisons budget has grown right along with the prison population. It takes up 25 percent of the Department of Justice’s budget and is expected to swell to ...
Press Release
Criminal Justice Reform Hearing Wrap Up

Criminal Justice Reform: Part I Criminal Justice Reform: Part II Witnesses: The Honorable John Cornyn, Senator, Texas The Honorable Cory Booker, Senator, New Jersey The Honorable Jim Sensenbrenner, Representative, Wisconsin 5th District The ...
Press Release
House Committee Chairmen Call for Withdrawal of Administration’s Harmful, Unnecessary Blacklisting Proposal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republican leaders of three congressional committees today wrote to the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to call for the withdrawal of the administration’s proposed blacklisting guidance and regulation. Expressing concern over the anticipated harmful consequences of the proposal, leaders on the Education and the Workforce Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Small Business Committee explain: The ...
Letter
Letter to Intercontinental Exchange NYSE Group President Thomas Farley Regarding the July 9, 2015 New York Stock Exchange Outage
Letter
Letter to SEC Chair Mary Jo White Regarding the July 9, 2015 New York Stock Exchange Outage
Hearing
Criminal Justice Reform, Part I

TAKEAWAYS: Criminal justice reform is a bipartisan/bicameral effort. The federal prison population is growing at an unsustainable rate and is nearly 40 percent over capacity. Populations have grown from 24,000 federal prisoners in 1980, to 219, 000 in 2013. The Bureau of Prisons budget has grown right along with the prison population. It takes up 25 percent of the Department of Justice’s budget and is expected to swell to ...
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Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena to OIRA for WOTUS Documents

Administrator refuses to produce documents despite numerous Congressional inquiries WASHINGTON – Today, after repeated efforts to work with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz issued a subpoena to Administrator Howard Shelanski to produce documents and communications related to the agency’s review of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Upon issuing the subpoena ...