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Issa Dares Obama to Move Beyond "Hand-to-Hand Combat" and Challenge Speaker Pelosi to Get Back to Work

Maybe Democrats in Congress could make a much more compelling case to keep their jobs if they actually started doing it. VISTA, CA - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement today amid new reports that the U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September as Gallup ...
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New Documents Prove FDA Knew and Misled Congress

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released new documents delivered to the Committee by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last night that conclusively reveal that the FDA has issued statements to the media that are inconsistent with key facts related to the investigation and that an FDA ...
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Issa to Clyburn: Paranoid Much?

  WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following statement tonight regarding deceptive comments made ...
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Issa, Collins Call on Attorney General and HUD Secretary to Act on HUD Inspector’s General Findings on ACORN

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security ...
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Issa Calls on HHS Inspector General to Initiate Investigation of FDA’s Effort to Impede and Mislead Congressional Investigation

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter today to the Inspector ...
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Issa: Vote on Tax Breaks or Resign

( WASHINGTON D.C.) - Following the statement today by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) that the Congress is not likely to vote on extending tax cuts that would benefit all Americans until after the November 2nd midterm elections, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government ...
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Issa: Do-Nothing Congress an Embarrassment, Refusal to Allow Up-or-Down Vote on Tax Breaks for the American People “Cowardly”

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) called on Congressional Democrats to take immediate action to extend tax cuts for all Americans before adjourning to convince the very American people who would benefit from those tax cuts to let them keep their ...
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Issa-Backed Bill to Reinstate FOIA for the SEC Passes Congress, Sent to President Obama

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today applauded House passage of S. 3717, which repealed section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that allowed the SEC to not "disclose records or information" that are typically subjects of ...
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HUD Inspector General Exposes ACORN’s Failure to Comply with Federal Grant Requirements Recommends ACORN Spin-Off Be Placed on ‘Inactive’ Status

WASHINGTON D.C. – In response to a congressional request, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Inspections and Evaluations Division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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Senior Republicans: Following IG Fiasco, Amtrak Senior Leadership May Need to Go

WASHINGTON, DC –In the wake of an investigative report into the unlawful removal of the Amtrak Inspector General, three senior Republicans are calling on Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood initiate a Department if Transportation Inspector General investigation to look closely at the actions of Amtrak Chairman Thomas Carper and General Counsel Eleanor Acheson to determine if they should be removed from their positions.