Releases

Date: Thursday March 31th, 2011   Start Time: 9:30 a.m.   Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building   Witnesses: Panel I: • Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security • Ivan Fong ,General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security   Panel II: • Charles Edwards, Acting Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security • John Verdi, ...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30th Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs, Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-NC. Title: Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to Fail? Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law he said: "there ...

WASHINGTON- Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-R), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today announced a full committee hearing on United States Postal Service (USPS) pay and benefits on April 5th. The Committee expects to hear from the Postal Service on their tentative agreement offered to their largest union, the American Postal Worker Union (APWU), last week. The agreement has yet to be signed. Issa expressed serious doubt that the APWU contract agreement ...

Washington, DC – In light of Facebook's recent attempt to raise additional equity capital while avoiding the burdens of SEC registration, and the SEC's subsequent examination into the strategy employed by Facebook, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter today to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Chairman Mary Schapiro asking that the SEC consider whether its current regulations and actions contribute to the decline of ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Chairman Darrell Issa today released the following statement about the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s probe into allegations surrounding the office of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray: “As the Chairman of the Committee with direct responsibility for overseeing the District of Columbia, I was deeply concerned by allegations made by a former mayoral candidate and political ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today made the following statement about a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the readiness of the current carbon offset market to facilitate additional and verifiable results:   “This study casts further doubt on the ability of carbon offset markets to play an effective role in any energy tax law or regulation. Paying for carbon reduction that might have taken place anyway and results that ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Last week, the Oversight Committee heard the testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro where she stated that allowing SEC General Counsel David Becker to advise on the Madoff investigation was a mistake. To help answer key questions about the impact of this mistake, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, has issued a subpoena to Madoff trustee Irving Picard for documents relating to the Becker family’s Madoff ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, the House Committee on Government Reform will continue its examination of the regulatory burdens placed on private sector job creators.   By Executive Order, President Obama created a preference for government contractors willing to enter into pre-hire, collective bargaining agreements known as “Project Labor Agreements” or PLAs. PLAs establish the terms and conditions of employment for a specific construction project with one or more labor organizations. The ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today released the following statement about President Barack Obama’s call for Congress to Reform No Child Left Behind:   “The American people need to know if President Obama is prepared to stand against union pressure when they oppose innovative education programs and reforms that help our students. President Obama has the opportunity to do this by announcing his support for the bipartisan effort to ...

SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION POLICY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND PROCUREMENT REFORM THE HONORABLE JAMES LANKFORD, CHAIRMAN Report: 65% of federal grant information on USASpending.gov is inaccurate Oversight Subcommittee: Is this really improving transparency in government?   WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Friday, a House Oversight subcommittee will examine open government and ...