Press Releases

Seek to understand what controls are in place to prevent waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan over the FTC’s use of unpaid consultants and experts. An investigation by the FTC Inspector General (OIG) recently found that the FTC lacked adequate controls to ensure ...

WASHINGTON—House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted Democrats’ politicization of the Select Subcommittee to attack the Trump Administration rather than conduct impartial congressional oversight of the pandemic. Since the panel’s inception, Democrats refused to investigate the origins of COVID-19; President Biden’s politically motivated decision-making; the Biden Administration’s failure to purchase ...

Request briefing from DoD and FCC on what efforts are underway to remove Huawei infrastructure from U.S. cellular network WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are raising concerns that Huawei infrastructure has yet to be removed from the U.S. cellular network despite its threat to national security. In letters to Department of Defense ...

Request an immediate briefing following information indicating USCG denied virtually all religious exemption requests  WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), expressing serious concerns over USCG’s apparent failure to provide due process to members ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today are pressing Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall about the possibility of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) being pressured by Oversight Committee Democrats to pursue former President Trump. Ranking Members Comer and Jordan are calling for documents and communications to determine the ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are pressing Dr. Anthony Fauci about the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarding EcoHealth Alliance a new grant to study bat coronaviruses in Asia. Recently, the National Institutes of ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about the collective failures by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services leading to the escape of Leonard Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” from U.S. custody. In the letter to Attorney General Garland, the Republican lawmakers are requesting a briefing and ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) are again pressing U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about COVID relief funds intended to address students’ learning loss being used to pay for radical curricula to indoctrinate students. According to documents obtained by Oversight Committee Republicans, a school district in Massachusetts used ...

WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “Fox and Friends” on Fox News to discuss federal charges facing Hunter Biden. Ranking Member Comer emphasized these charges against Hunter Biden pale in comparison to Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s influence peddling and suspicious foreign business deals with foreign adversaries opposed to U.S. interests. “These are small potatoes compared to all the problems that Hunter ...

Deliberate efforts to shield John Kerry from oversight raise further questions about his role in policymaking WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) sent a letter to Secretary John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, expressing concern over his office’s lack of transparency and radical left-wing environmental organizations’ ...