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Three former Twitter employees to testify; media must RSVP WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a full committee hearing titled “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.” At the hearing, lawmakers on the panel will question three former Twitter employees who censored the New York Post’s reporting ...

WASHINGTON– House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) today wrote a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm calling for all documents and communications related to three DOE National Laboratories targeted by a Russian hacking team during the summer of 2022. “The Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on ...

Renews request for documents and information to understand role and provide necessary transparency over the SPEC and its activities WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is pressing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry for documents and information related to his role within the Biden Administration. Despite not being confirmed by the Senate, Kerry is negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered opening remarks at a hearing titled “Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.” After spending trillions of dollars under the name of COVID with no guardrails or protections, billions of taxpayer dollars were lost to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. Chairman Comer emphasized that Republicans will identify where this money went, how much ended up ...

On Hannity, Comer warns the Biden Admin worked hand-in-hand with NARA to conceal classified docs story from the American people WASHINGTON—Following a transcribed interview with the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) general counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) joined ‘Hannity’ on Fox News to discuss how the Biden Administration deliberately sought to keep Americans in the dark about President ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 139, the Stopping Home Work’s Unproductive Problems Act (SHOW UP Act). Chairman Comer introduced the SHOW UP Act to require federal workers to return to pre-pandemic telework levels so that government agencies can best serve the American people. ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today announced the subcommittee chairs and membership for the 118th Congress. “Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are ready to get to work to root out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and hold the Biden Administration accountable. We have a duty to be the voice of the American people in Washington and will fight for them. With ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer today applauded House passage of the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act (H.R. 139), a bill he introduced to prevent the Biden Administration from cementing heightened pandemic-era telework policies until it proves the efficacy of remote work. “Today the People’s House have sent a strong ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.” Committee members asked government witnesses for answers about why billions of taxpayer dollars were lost to waste, fraud, and abuse and for estimates as to how much money was ...

WASHINGTON– House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered opening remarks at the committee's organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, where the committee will adopt its official rules. “We will be returning this Committee to its core mission: To ensure that taxpayer dollars are not being mismanaged, abused, or wasted, to shine a light in the darkness of the federal bureaucracy to prevent corruption and self-dealing, and to ...