Press Releases

Slams Democrats for holding a hearing on socialized medicine while ignoring mounting crises WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing on the Democrats’ socialized medicine scheme by blasting Democrats for looking for more ways to grow entitlement spending instead of conducting oversight to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending. He emphasized Republicans’ investigation into Medicaid ...

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican Leaders on the House Committees on Administration, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, Small Business, and the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture and Financial Services and General Government, sent a letter to the Biden Administration raising concerns about its lack of constitutional and statutory authority to enact the Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, which ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member John Katko (R-N.Y.) today blasted the Biden Administration for hiding information from the public about terrorists apprehended at the southern border. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Ranking Members Comer and Katko call for all documents and information about terrorist apprehensions at the border and the ...

Lawmakers continue oversight of FAA banning media drones from covering the border crisis WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson continuing their probe into the FAA’s decision to censor the ability of U.S. media outlets to accurately report on the humanitarian and national security crisis occurring ...

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) raised concerns about Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements' possible conflicts of interest after a review of public records revealed her failure to disclose her spouse’s financial stake in the renewable energy company Sol Systems, LLC. The law requires the Commissioner, who oversees ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing requested by Representative Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to examine the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and what the federal government is doing to respond to a string of recent bomb threats to many of their campuses. Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Byron Donalds, and Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened the ...

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Scott Franklin (R-Fla.), and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken requesting a member-level briefing and all information on the Biden administration’s plans to obtain oil from Iran, Venezuela, and other hostile foreign countries instead of encouraging energy production in the United States. The Republican lawmakers ...

Call on Bowser to provide answers about her plan to address rampant crime WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans today renewed their request for District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser to provide her plan to address rampant violent crime in the nation’s capital city. In the letter, the Republican lawmakers blast Democrat-led budget cuts to the Metropolitan Police Department’s budget (MPD) that ...

WASHINGTON — Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing the devastation and destruction wildfires have had on American communities. In his opening statement, Ranking Member Norman slammed Democrats for delaying a hearing on this important topic for over a year and highlighted how the Committee’s power is instead being abused to push their partisan investigation into the oil and gas industry. Instead of attacking domestic ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) introduced the Accountable Federal Employees Act (H.R. 7095) to reform the under-performing, inefficient, and unaccountable federal bureaucracy by enabling the discipline and removal of failing federal employees. Underperforming federal employees are notoriously hard to discipline or remove and continue to hinder agency missions. This legislation solidifies President Trump’s past executive orders ...