Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a hearing titled “ESG Part I: An Examination of Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices with Attorneys General.” This full committee hearing will examine the concerns of state attorneys general related to the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards by asset managers and how these ESG principles are being used by activist shareholders to shape corporate ...

Congressional subpoena seeks specific FBI document WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member and long-time whistleblower advocate Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today are demanding the FBI produce an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The document, an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, allegedly details ...

Recent media reports show new NFIP methodology has caused premiums to increase, causing flood insurance to be unattainable for many WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are investigating the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) after recent reports show that for nearly four million ...

WASHINGTON—In an effort to reveal the details of a hidden pressure campaign run by environmental activists and the Biden administration to ban gas stoves, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have sent bicameral letters to Consumer Reports, the Climate Imperative Foundation, and Stacey Abrams’ Rewiring America group. Sen. Cruz and Rep. Comer wrote to these ...

Follows NLRB IG opening an investigation into lawful subpoena by Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Foxx WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) opened a probe into the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Office of Inspector General (OIG) over its efforts to undermine a legitimate congressional inquiry by investigating a subpoena issued by Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx ...

Considering information presented at the hearing, the Select Subcommittee’s investigation must go on. The Select Subcommittee has outstanding requests for transcribed interviews and expects ongoing cooperation from Ms. Weingarten and AFT. WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “The Consequences of School Closures, Part 2: The President of the American Federation of Teachers, Ms. Randi Weingarten” to delve into any ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today opened an investigation into the role the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (SF Fed) and other state and federal regulators played in the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse. In a letter to the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the lawmakers are requesting documents and ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure renewing their request for information on what safeguards CMS has in place to address improper payments in the Medicaid program. “We write to continue our investigation into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the staggering rate ...

WASHINGTON — Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) opened today’s subcommittee hearing on “China in Our Backyard: How Chinese Money Laundering Organizations Enrich the Cartels” by outlining how cartels have partnered with Chinese Money Laundering Organizations to make more money and traffic deadly fentanyl ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled “The Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List.” In his opening statement, Chairman Comer emphasized that the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2023 High Risk List will assist the committee’s efforts to combat waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and safeguard taxpayer ...