Full Oversight Committee

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Tuesday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled "The Hatch Act: The Challenges of Separating Politics from Policy," will focus on the enforcement challenges, costs, and possible legislative solutions to the law designed to prevent federal employees from conducting partisan political activity with federal resources. The committee is concerned that the current version of the Hatch Act ...

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement Friday's field hearing in North Charleston, entitled "Unionization through Regulation," will explore the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel to bring suit against The Boeing Company for alleged unfair labor practices related to the company's plan to build commercial aircraft in South Carolina. The disastrous consequences that the effort to penalize Boeing will have on the economy of ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Wednesday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled "Operation Fast and Furious: Reckless Decisions, Tragic Outcomes," will focus on an irresponsible program that allowed guns to be trafficked into the hands of known criminals along our border with Mexico. The Committee is engaged in an ongoing investigation to determine who ultimately authorized the program, who knew about it, and why ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Tuesday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled "Achieving Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending," furthers the committee's mission to deliver the facts to the American people and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. Despite the availability of technology to track federal spending and program performance, the existing platforms utilized by government ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement   Monday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform follows three months of effort by congressional investigators to understand the rationale, policy, and practical execution of a controversial government program that allowed straw purchasers to buy heavy-duty arms and traffic them into Mexico to be used by drug cartels. To date, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Thursday’s hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, entitled “Making the Gulf Coast Whole Again: Assessing Recovery Efforts of BP and the Obama Administration After the Oil Spill,” will focus on the economic hardships and other issues still facing the Gulf Coast community one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  By examining the disaster response of both BP and the Obama ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. ...Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money." Those were the words of Candidate Obama. As President, he said: "The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Thursday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform fulfills the committee's responsibility to safeguard the federal contracting and procurement processes from the exploitation and the undue influence of partisan political concerns. Recently, the Obama administration circulated a proposed Executive Order that would direct federal agencies to require contractors to disclose political expenditures ...

Chairman Darrell Issa Hearing Preview Statement Tuesday's hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will provide lawmakers with an opportunity to better understand how securities regulations have harmed public and private capital formation in the United States. For many years, the U.S. has been recognized as having the largest, most liquid, and most competitive capital markets in the world. Yet for the last two decades, capital formation – ...