Full Oversight Committee

Chairman Issa Preview Hearing Statement Today’s hearing will examine what happened with the Delphi Pension plan in the midst of the federal government’s bailout of General Motors in 2009.  While the pensions of unionized Delphi workers were largely protected as Delphi went through bankruptcy thanks to guarantees coming from the federal government/GM, non-union salaried Delphi employees saw their pensions greatly reduced.   Delphi – originally a ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today approved legislation - H.R. 3262, the Government Results Transparency Act (GRTA) - to increase federal transparency and strengthen taxpayers' ability to hold government accountable for the performance of federal government programs. GRTA will make federal agencies' reports on program performance easier for taxpayers and government watchdogs to search and analyze by establishing consistent data standards and ...

WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved three bills to reduce government spending and protect against address waste abuse of taxpayer dollars. "Reforming government, whether through changes implemented by the administration or through legislation, is a critical goal of oversight," said Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. "Downsizing the federal government, enhancing legal channels for federal employees to report waste and abuse, and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli testified yesterday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the Obama Administration's proposed Maximum Achievable Control Technology (Utility MACT) regulation. Attorney General Cuccinelli broke down the hearing in a reaction video, laying out the MACT regulation's anticipated consequences of soaring energy costs and massive job losses. According ...

Chairman Issa Preview Hearing Statement Affordable and reliable energy has fueled our economic growth for a century. Businesses, consumers, inventors, and entrepreneurs have all relied on cheap energy in order to create new products and services, which they in turn use to creates jobs and grow the economy. But today, government regulators are poised to enact a new set of rules that could dramatically increase the cost that consumers and job creators pay for ...

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement Today we welcome Congressman Christopher Shays – a former member of this committee, Mr. Michael Thibault, who co-chaired the commission's work with Congressman Shays, and other members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting. In August, they released a final report with alarming findings about waste and abuse that occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of 2 years, the Commission has conducted 25 hearings, ...

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement Facing the worst recession since the Great Depression, President Obama has confronted this crisis by promoting green jobs as a major component of his recovery plan. He has said that these programs would create five million jobs within ten years. The President has also cited the efforts of other nations as the rationale to try to subsidize our way to energy independence. Unfortunately, the other nations who tried this ...

Cattle Rancher Robbie LeValley on Uncertainty, Unintended Consequences of Proposed USDA Regulations WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released "Voices of Recovery: Robbie's Story," in which 4th generation Colorado rancher Robbie LeValley underscores the job-killing uncertainty family ranchers face under the Obama Administration's