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Ranking Member Issa Statement on Senator Gregg’s Decision to Withdraw as Nominee for Secretary of Commerce

  Washington D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement regarding Senator Judd Gregg’s (R-NH) decision to withdraw his name from consideration to serve as the next Secretary of Commerce citing “irresolvable conflicts” on issues such as the stimulus package and the ...
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Obama Administration’s Power Grab to Politicize Census Met with Fierce Opposition by Issa and McHenry

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) expressed significant opposition to the Obama Administration’s reported plan to politicize the nonpartisan census process.     “Any attempt by the Obama ...
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Rep. Issa Announces Subcommittee Ranking Members

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today announced subcommittee Ranking Members for the 111th Congress.     “President Obama’s repeated commitment to unprecedented transparency presents an historic opportunity to fix problems in the Federal Government that have festered through both ...
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Conyers, Issa Introduce Bipartisan Performance Rights Legislation

  Companion Legislation Introduced Today In Senate       WASHINGTON. D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Darrell Issa (R-CA), introduced The Performance Rights Act, a bipartisan measure that takes a first step at ensuring that all radio platforms are treated in a similar manner and that those who perform ...
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Reported Conflict-of-Interest Prompts Ranking Member Issa to Call for DTV Vote Delay and Full Disclosure of Industry Insider’s Involvement in Crafting Policy

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging her to postpone a vote on legislation to delay the transition to digital television until the impact of a reported conflict of interest from an advisor to President Obama is fully known and ...
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Issa Votes Against ‘Leave No Government Program Behind’ Trillion Dollar Stimulus

  Washington, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today voted against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s so-called ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ calling it nothing more than a $1.1 trillion earmark designed to expand government on the backs of the American taxpayers using money we do not ...
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Lobbying, Political Organizations Await Stimulus Package Bailout

  WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today expressed concern regarding the exclusion of good government provisions in the proposed Pelosi-Obey stimulus package including a failure to prohibit use of economic stimulus funds for lobbying or political activities.     “The economic stimulus should ...
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Stimulus Proposal Must Protect Independent IG Oversight

  WASHINGTON D.C. – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today objected to provisions in the Pelosi-Obey stimulus package threatening the independent oversight conducted by Department and Agency Inspectors General.     “We shouldn’t put a leash and muzzle on independent ...
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President Obama Must Be Active Partner in Effort to Reform Government

  GAO High Risk List Targets Financial Regulatory System, FDA and EPA       WASHINGTON. D.C. – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and other House and Senate oversight leaders today unveiled the high-risk program list for 2009. The high-risk list ...
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Issa Calls "Stimulus" Package an "$825 Billion Earmark"

  WASHINGTON. D.C. –House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today criticized the proposed Pelosi-Obey $825 billion economic “stimulus” package characterizing it as an $825 billion earmark that will do little but expand the federal government at the expense of prolonging the current economic recession. More than 40 percent of spending in the proposed bill is for expanding current ...