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(WASHINGTON)—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on the June unemployment report released today: "Today's unemployment report is, as The Atlantic wrote, 'all bad.' The total number of unemployed Americans is up 545,000. The percentage of working adults is 58.2 percent – smaller than at any point during the recession. Now at 40 weeks, the U.S. labor force just broke a record for the longest average duration ...

Sweet Tweets Can't Disguise 14,100,000 Unemployed Americans WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released "#AskObama: Where Are the #Jobs?" as part of efforts to examine the growing gap between White House rhetoric on jobs and the fact that more than 14,000,000 Americans can't find jobs. More than two years after Americans were promised that a ...

(WASHINGTON)—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on the June unemployment report released today: "Today's unemployment report is, as The Atlantic wrote, 'all bad.' The total number of unemployed Americans is up 545,000. The percentage of working adults is 58.2 percent – smaller than at any point during the recession. Now at 40 weeks, the U.S. labor force just broke a record for the longest ...

Joint Hearing with the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending and the House Committee on Education and Workforce's Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training

(WASHINGTON)—Senior House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders have asked President Obama's former auto czar Ron Bloom to clarify his June 22 committee testimony that appears to contradict previously published statements attributed to Mr. Bloom. He was quoted in news reports and a book by former auto czar Steve Rattner, at a celebratory dinner for the auto bailout team that he "did this all for the unions." Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan ...

(WASHINGTON)—Senior House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders have asked President Obama's former auto czar Ron Bloom to clarify his June 22 committee testimony that appears to contradict previously published statements attributed to Mr. Bloom. He was quoted in news reports and a book by former auto czar Steve Rattner, at a celebratory dinner for the auto bailout team that he "did this all for the unions." Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Subcommittee ...

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement Thursday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled "Cybersecurity: Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United States," is the first in a series of hearings to examine the nature and extent of the current threat to America's digital infrastructure. In recent months, the Committee has consulted with officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of ...

DEA and FBI may have failed to share key information on informants WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, July 4, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson testified before investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee about Operation Fast and Furious.  Following this interview, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, in a letter to Attorney ...

  DEA and FBI may have failed to share key information on informants   WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, July 4, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson testified before investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee about Operation Fast and Furious.  Following this interview, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, ...

Joint Hearing with the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending and the House Committee on Education and Workforce's Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Hearing Documents Hearing Video