Press Releases

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’ ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to the Acting Archivist of the United States, Debra Steidel Wall, raising concerns about Oversight Committee Democrats’ influence and coordination with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to investigate the Trump Administration’s handling of presidential records. Oversight Committee Democrats pressured NARA to pursue former President Trump while he was in office ...

WASHINGTON — This weekend, Republican Leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, James Comer, and Republican Leader of the House Committee on Agriculture, Glenn "GT" Thompson, were joined by 128 of their Conference colleagues in sending a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The letter requests a study regarding foreign investment in U.S. farmland and its impact on national security, trade, and food security.

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-Texas) today are pressing Secretary of State Antony Blinken for information about the State Department’s efforts to end the detainment of U.S. diplomats in COVID-19 quarantine camps in the People’s Republic of China. Ranking Members Comer and McCaul are calling for the preservation of documents related to the request and a ...

Request briefing from Department of Education to understand how college campuses are ensuring free thought and expression 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.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona expressing serious concerns over reports indicating colleges and universities are actively undermining ...

Push Attorney General Garland over apparent lack of action from Department of Justice in enforcing federal law WASHINGTON— Today, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland for action regarding the recent cyberattacks targeting Christian websites and charitable ...