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03-11-2009 – Domestic Policy – "Peeling Back the TARP: Exposing Treasury's Failur to Monitor the Ways Financial Institutions are Using Taxpayer Funds Provided under the Troubled Assets Relief Program"

  "Peeling Back the TARP: Exposing Treasury's Failure to Monitor the Ways Financial Institutions are Using Taxpayer Funds Provided under the Troubled Assets Relief Program"   March 11, 2009     Hearing Documents   Ranking Member Issa's Opening Statement   Panel ...

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03-10-2009 – Full Committee Business Meeting

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Issa Calls on EPA to Deny CA-Waiver Request

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) provided testimony today calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny the State of California’s request to institute and enforce its own vehicle emissions standards.     “One uniform national standard for fuel economy is in every way preferable ...

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03-05-09 – Information Policy – Status of the 2010 Census Operations

  Status of the 2010 Census Operations   March 5, 2009   Hearing Documents   Witnesses Mr. Thomas Mesenbourg Acting Director, U.S. Census Bureau

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While Tripling Deficit, Obama Continues to Talk Fiscal Responsibility

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – While speaking today about the need to reform the federal contracting and procurement process, President Obama talked about the fiscal disaster he “inherited” and spoke about the need to “turn the tide on an era of fiscal irresponsibility so that we can sustain our recovery.”     “If President Obama wants to do more than ...

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Issa Probes Conflict Between Countrywide VIP Program Documents, Sworn Testimony of Former Fannie Mae CEO

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, released a letter to the attorney of former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines advising him to revise statements in his testimony indicating that he did not receive preferential treatment as a “Friend of Angelo” and member of the Countrywide VIP ...

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03-04-2009 – National Security – "Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding a Complex Threat Environment"

  "Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding a Complex Threat Environment"   March 4, 2009   Hearing Documents Hearing Video Rep. Flake Opening ...

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Issa Calls on Administration to use Available Technology, Training to Prevent Mistakes in GSA Blacklist of Troubled Contractors

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, at a hearing on problems identified by a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the GSA’s Excluded Parties List System (EPLS), called for new training and technology to play a role in eliminating serious mistakes in the awarding of Federal ...

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Ranking Member Issa Named to House-Senate Fiscal Responsibility Group

  Sends Letter to Vice President Biden Calling for Aggressive Oversight of Stimulus Funds       WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) who was named to the newly-formed House-Senate Fiscal Responsibility Working Group, today sent Vice President Joe Biden a letter requesting his office ...

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McHenry: What is Locke’s Position on Census?

  WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Patrick McHenry, Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives sent the letter below to President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce.   In anticipation of former Washington Governor Gary Locke’s confirmation hearing, Congressman McHenry asks, “Do you intend to comply with the partisan ambitions of the President ...