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Will Treasury Answer for Lack of TARP Transparency?

Issa Asks for, Chairman Towns Threatens Subpoena of Sec. Geithner WASHINGTON. D.C. – The Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil Barofsky testified today at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the Treasury Department has “repeatedly ...
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Rep. Issa Renews Demand for Probe of Administration’s Suppression of Dissent in Cap & Trade Debate

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (CA), the Ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today renewed his request to Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) to investigate reports that the Administration has inappropriately suppressed internal dissent in the Cap & Trade debate.
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Republicans Announce Appointments to the 9/11-Style Financial Crisis Commission

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Republicans announced today their four appointments to the 10-member Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission formed to investigate the causes, handling, and way forward from the current financial crisis. The creation was such a panel was first proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last fall. ...
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Issa on CIA Controversy: “The whole question of lying to Congress is serious enough that it should always be investigated and taken seriously.”

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and member of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller today calling on him to “to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing by CIA employees…to include questions raised by members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence about whether the CIA Director’s communications ...
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Issa, Boehner and McKeon Introduce Reauthorization of D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) joined today with House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) in introducing legislation to reauthorize the District of Columbia’s groundbreaking school choice program. Since 2004, this program has ...
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Rep. Issa Opposes ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Energy Tax

WASHINGTON. D.C. –House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the following statement about his decision to vote against H.R. 2454, legislation that would create a national energy tax: “By establishing a tax on the use of energy, ...
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Bank of America/Federal Reserve: Who Is Telling the Truth?

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Bank of America Ready to Turn Over ‘Countrywide VIP’ Documents if Majority Will Issue Subpoena

WASHINGTON. D.C. – On June 2, 2009, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis requesting documents that would shed light on Countrywide’s infamous VIP program that was used to curry favor through sweetheart mortgage deals with Federal Government officials and Members of Congress who held responsibilities related to housing policy. Bank of ...
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Issa Weighs-in on Administration’s Roll-back of Union Transparency Requirements

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), yesterday, in a letter to the Office of Labor-Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor objecting to plans to withdrawal a reporting rule for the nation’s largest labor organizations that offers union members an unprecedented level of transparency through which they can hold their union and its officers ...
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AIG Investigation Must Move Forward Without Interference from Treasury

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today in response to a letter from Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General of TARP, responding to inquiries from Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding SIGTARP’s position within Treasury: