Hearings

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 ...