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Issa-Towns Government Transparency Information Bill Moves Forward

WASHINGTON D.C. – The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today unanimously agreed to add H.R. 2392, the Issa-Towns “Government Information Transparency Act,” to legislation reauthorizing and improving the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999. 
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Issa Calls on President Obama to Clarify “Command and Control” Threat

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called on President Barack Obama to clarify reports that during a background briefing with reporters, a senior White House official warned Congress that failure to regulate greenhouse gases would result in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seizing “command-and-control” role over the ...
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TARP: The Taxpayer Asset Redirection Program?

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement today regarding President Obama’s plan to divert TARP dollars to fund programs that are supposed to create the jobs the stimulus isn’t: “The Obama ...
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EPA Endangerment Finding – Why the Rush? What’s to Hide?

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding EPA’s Endangerment Finding: “It’s unsurprising and disappointing that the EPA has decided to push through the Endangerment finding based purely on political calculations and not ...
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Shocking? Report Paid for by ACORN Exonerates Them

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding the report commissioned by ACORN released by Scott Harshbarger report on ACORN: “How surprising is it that a report paid for by ACORN exonerates them?  ...
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Issa on Climategate: “It’s very clear that an inconvenient truth has been replaced by a convenient lie – we’d like to get to the bottom of the lie.”

With the Obama Administration planning on announcing its endangerment finding today, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
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As Climate Conference in Copenhagen Approaches, President Obama Should Abandon Any Plans for Binding U.S. Commitment

U.N. to Investigate Climategate While Obama Administration Turns Blind Eye to Corrupted Science WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today joined with House Republican leaders in a letter to President Obama calling on him to provide assurances that U.S. ...
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U.N. to Investigate Climategate While Obama Administration Turns Blind Eye to Corrupted Science

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today issued the following statement on the announcement that the United Nations will investigate leaked e-mails that call into the question the validity of conclusions reached in the U.N.’s IPCC assessment, which the Obama Administration has relied on to shape and validate its Climate Change public policy ...
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GOP Oversight Members Call for Committee to Conduct Bipartisan Investigation into Climate Change E-mails

WASHINGTON D.C. – Twelve Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today requested that Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) launch an investigation into the questions raised by the disclosure of emails from Hadley CRU. The Members’ letter argues the Committee should examine the issue on a bipartisan basis. According to the ...
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Issa Statement Following Secret Service Briefing

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today after receiving a Secret Service briefing from Deputy Director Faron Paramore on the White House security breach: “The Secret Service has told us that this was the result of human error and ...