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Comer and Gill Investigate Businesses Exploiting U.S. Immigration Law to Profit from Birth Tourism

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representative Brandon Gill (R-Texas), the Chairman of the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, today sent four letters to U.S. entities and businesses that are engaged in and profit from birth tourism. These firms are exploiting birthright citizenship by explicitly marketing their maternity services to foreign expectant mothers who take advantage of ...

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Comer Subpoenas Sixteen Thirty Fund Documents Related to Dark Money Operation

WASHINGTON— House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing to investigate the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s role in the secretive Chorus influencer program, a prominent dark money operation involved in efforts to undermine media ethics standards and circumvent federal campaign finance disclosure laws enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Following Sixteen Thirty Fund’s failure to fully comply with ...

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Oversight Committee Releases Waitt and Lutnick Transcripts

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the transcript of Ted Waitt’s transcribed interview as part of its review of the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. Waitt appeared on April 30, 2026. The Committee also released the 

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Comer Investigates Why the Federal Government Usually Pays to Make Federal Employee Grievances Go Away

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is conducting oversight of taxpayer-funded payouts to federal employees used to settle and often side-step employment disputes. The House Oversight Committee is concerned that persistent gaps in data collection and transparency, growing costs to taxpayers, and institutional incentives that favor informal resolutions over taxpayer interests may be creating incentives for federal ...

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Comer Raises Concerns Over Left-Wing Influence in Regulatory Standards-Setting and Seeks NIST Briefing on Efforts to Protect U.S. Industry

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is raising concerns about the harmful influence of global left-wing activist groups on American businesses and on the work of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Craig Burkhardt, Chairman Comer emphasized the importance of international standards-setting bodies, ...

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Comer: D.C.’s Police Department Must Hand Over Records from Completed Internal Investigation Into Manipulated D.C. Crime Data

WASHINGTON— House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement today after reports indicated that several Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officials in Washington, D.C., received termination notices related to the manipulation of crime data:“The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s decision to terminate officials responsible for manipulating crime data and cultivating a culture of fear to advance their ...

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Comer Raises Concerns Over Complex Federal Billing System Potentially Fueling Improper Payments and Rising Healthcare Costs

Requests a staff-level briefing from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on its oversight of the Current Procedural Terminology code system. WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is continuing to investigate drivers of rising healthcare costs in federal programs, including systemic issues that may enable significant waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. In a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

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Comer Continues Investigation into Potential Collusion Between the Biden Administration and Anti-Second Amendment Groups on Activist Litigation Against Firearms Manufacturer

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing to investigate the Biden Administration’s potential collusion with anti-Second Amendment group Everytown for Gun Safety to bring litigation against firearm manufacturers and undermine Americans’ civil liberties. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) maintains government records created or received by presidential administrations, which includes documents and ...

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Markup Wrap Up: Oversight Committee Passes Sweeping Legislation to Stop Fraud in Federal Programs

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a markup and advanced nine bills aimed at protecting taxpayer funds and combating rampant fraud and improper payments in federal programs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that between $233 billion and $521 billion is lost annually due to fraud. The legislation passed today comes after the Committee ...

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Comer Demands All Records from Completed Internal Investigation Into Manipulated D.C. Crime Data

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform continues to investigate the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) practices related to the reporting of crime data in Washington, D.C. An Oversight Committee staff report released in December 2025 found that former MPD Chief Pamela A. Smith ...