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Making the Gulf Coast Whole Again: Assessing the Recovery Efforts of BP and the Obama Administration After the Oil Spill

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 ...

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Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayer?

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Duplication, Overlap, and Inefficiencies in Federal Welfare Programs

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Rightsizing the Federal Workforce

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Unfunded Mandates, Regulatory Burdens and the Role of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Cybersecurity: Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United States

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How Federal Reserve Policies Add to Hard Times at the Pump

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Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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Pain at the Pump: Policies that Suppress Domestic Production of Oil and Gas

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 ...

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Financial Management at the Department of Homeland Security

Chairman Todd Platts Hearing Opening Statement In 2003 and 2004, I was proud to work with Ranking Member Ed Towns to sponsor the DHS Financial Accountability Act. That law placed the Department under the CFO Act, requiring a Senate-confirmed CFO, and imposed the first-ever statutory requirement for an audit of internal controls at any Federal agency. When DHS was created in 2002, it inherited substantial financial management challenges—particularly from the ...