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Mayor Gray, Chairman Brown to testify to Oversight Hearing on D.C. Budget

WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Oversight and Government D.C. subcommittee will host the top two at-large elected officials in the District on Thursday at 8:45 a.m. Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown will testify at a hearing on the District's Fiscal Year 2012 budget. The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC., has called the hearing to examine the fiscal sustainability of D.C. spending. In 1995 the District of Columbia Financial ...
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Oversight Committee Hearing Schedule for May 9th to May 13th

TUESDAY MAY 10th The Future of Capital Formation Full Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday May 10th in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Has Securities and Exchange Commission regulation made it too hard to raise private capital for ...
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Disposal of Excess Federal Property Could Save Taxpayers Billions

WASHINGTON, DC – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglass Elmendorf requesting that CBO provide an official cost estimate of President Obama's proposed "Civilian Property Realignment Act." The White House estimates the bill could save ...
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Issa Statement on Murder Indictment of Suspect Linked to Notorious Operation Fast and Furious

Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released the following statement regarding the Department of Justice's announcement of a month old indictment for the December 15, 2010, murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. At the scene of Terry's murder, investigators found guns that the ATF had knowingly allowed to fall into the hands of criminals. "The announcement of an indictment against Manuel Osorio-Arellanes for the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is ...
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What Attorney General Holder Won’t Tell on Controversial Gun Operation, Documents Do

  WASHINGTON- At a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa confronted Attorney General Eric Holder on the DOJ’s Operation Fast and Furious, a highly controversial operation where federal authorities facilitated the purchase of assault weapons for drug cartels and chose not to interdict them before being transported to Mexico.    While Attorney General Holder was unwilling ...
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Issa Statement on the Death of Osama bin Laden

WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Vista, CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and previously a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence from 2006 until 2009, released the following statement on the news that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan: "Osama Bin Laden's death at the hands of American forces is a fitting end to the world's most notorious terrorist. While we celebrate this ...
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White House to Testify on Presidential Records Act

WASHINGTON- The White House's top administrative information officer will join the head of the National Archives in testifying to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the Presidential Records Act, next Tuesday. "The Presidential Records Act of 1978 was designed to ensure that generations to come may benefit from a thorough accounting of decisions made at the highest levels of government," Chairman Issa said. "We need to ensure ...
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Issa: Obama Games the System with Executive Order

Washington, DC – The President intends to ask companies that do business with the federal government to disclose contributions to some issue advocacy groups, exempting labor unions or special interest groups who are expected to make significant efforts on behalf of his reelection, according to a draft executive order circulated by the White House this week. "Yet again, the President is playing political games while simultaneously claiming that he has put ...
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Chairman Issa Chastises ATF for Refusal to Comply with Subpoena

"If you do not comply with the subpoena, the Committee will be forced to commence contempt proceedings." WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today, in a letter to Bureau of Alcohol, ...
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Issa: Obama Administration’s Assault on Off-Shore Drilling has Exacerbated Oil Spill’s Economic Costs

  WASHINGTON- Tomorrow, April 20, 2011, will be the one year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement while conducting field hearings on regulatory impediments to job creation in California:   “One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, coastal communities are still dealing with the ...