Press Releases

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) sent a letter to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli expressing concerns over the decision to delay key findings related to the audit of the New York State Unemployment Insurance system. The audit report 2021-S-3 titled, “Department of Labor: ...

Washington, D.C.—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman-Elect James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on Ranking Member-Elect Jamie Raskin’s (D-Md.) cancer diagnosis: “Cancer doesn’t stand a chance against a fighter like Ranking Member Raskin. We are all rooting for him as he and his team of doctors fight this disease. My prayers are with Ranking Member Raskin and his family as he goes through treatment and beats cancer.”

Send letters to Facebook and Twitter requesting information as part of investigation into First Amendment violations WASHINGTON — Today, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Oversight Republicans sent letters to the Chief Executive Officer of Meta Platforms, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter Owner, Elon Musk, requesting documents and ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing by condemning violence in all forms and warned against ignoring facts about the increase in crime in the United States. He emphasized that crime and violence has increased across the United States because of the defund the police movement and soft-on-crime policies. Ranking Member Comer concluded his remarks by calling to reverse these dangerous policies in order to make the ...

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) are pressing senior Biden Administration officials, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and several virologists who authored “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” for information necessary to the Oversight Committee’s investigation into COVID origins and, for the first time, outlined the names of 40 individuals with whom the ...

WASHINWASHINGTON — Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing that threats to our democracy and Constitution have been echoed so frequently that it has lost its impact and become a tool used to advance a political agenda. She emphasized that open and honest debate is protected by the Constitution and condemned those who censor lawful speech on partisan grounds. Subcommittee Ranking Member Mace closed by ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ oil and gas report: “The Democrats’ report is the grand finale of a partisan show designed to demonize America’s energy producers and force radical Green New Deal policies on Americans that drive up the cost of energy. Instead of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, Democrats weaponized the resources ...

WASHINGTON—House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted Democrats’ final report and politicization of the Select Subcommittee to attack the Trump Administration rather than conduct impartial congressional oversight of the pandemic. “Today’s final report is further proof that Democrats’ sham panel never was about impartial oversight—it was purely about politics. Instead of conducting ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ Washington Commanders report: “From the beginning, Committee Democrats’ so-called ‘investigation’ into the Washington Commanders only served to deliberately target a private organization, gain cheap headlines, and ignore any information that did not align with their predetermined narrative. Over the course of this sham ...

Sends letters to the White House, DOD, State, DHS, USAID, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff renewing requests for all documents and communications related to the Afghanistan catastrophe WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to senior leadership at the White House, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Department of State (State), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Agency for International ...