Press Releases

WASHINGTON—Today, Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and several Republican lawmakers on the panel are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide answers about Head Start’s mask mandate for toddlers in schools nationwide. In a letter to Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary January Contreas, the Republican lawmakers are requesting all documents and information related to studies used to ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to Democrats’ so-called Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act (H.R. 2988). During his remarks, Ranking Member Comer emphasized the importance of protecting whistleblowers and pointed to several laws already on the books that protect them from retaliation. However, he outlined how the Democrats’ bill makes it impossible to address ...

Initiate investigation into the Department of Education allowing COVID relief funds to be used to indoctrinate America’s children in leftist ideology WASHINGTON —Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), along with Republicans from both panels, are launching an investigation into the Department of Education reportedly allowing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to the Democrats’ so-called Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act (H.R. 8326). He emphasized how the bill does not make the Census more fair and accurate but instead weakens accountability at the Census Bureau by placing massive power in the hands of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. Ranking Member called on Congress to instead ...

Call on DHS Inspector General to initiate an investigation to determine if taxpayer dollars are funding genocide, human rights abuses in China   WASHINGTON—Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Committee Republicans are raising concerns that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is potentially using taxpayer dollars to purchase solar panels and components from China, an ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted the Treasury Department for refusing to provide Hunter Biden and other Biden associates and family members’ suspicious foreign business transactions flagged by U.S. banks: “It’s unacceptable that the Treasury Department continues to run cover for the Biden ...

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), along with Republican lawmakers on both panels, today are pressing Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook’s suppression of the allegations about the Biden family before the 2020 election. During a recent podcast, Zuckerberg admitted Facebook reduced the circulation of the New York Post’s explosive story about the contents of Hunter ...

Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) are continuing oversight of the Biden Administration’s sale of U.S. oil reserves to Unipec America, a company operated by the Chinese Communist Party, and raising concerns that U.S. oil could be used by China to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. To ensure the Biden Administration is properly managing the sale of ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is requesting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provide documents and communications about its decision to send a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding allegations against former President Trump. A recently released affidavit reveals NARA’s OIG is responsible for the referral to the Justice Department, which led to the ...

Reiterate request for information, documents, and communications between NARA and law enforcement officials. Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans are raising concerns about the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) failure to comply with Oversight Republicans’ request for information regarding NARA’s coordination with the Justice Department prior to the Mar-a-Lago raid earlier ...