Press Releases

As the crisis worsens, Committee Democrats have ignored multiple Republican requests to hold the Administration accountable WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) blasting Democrats’ for failing to hold a hearing and conduct meaningful oversight over the Biden ...

Renew their request for a public hearing on the Administration’s disastrous decisions in the region WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) renewing their request for a public hearing on President Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Despite requesting a hearing in

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra questioning how President Biden’s border crisis led to the Administration’s decision to divert billions of dollars from critical COVID relief programs.  “We write today to continue our oversight of the Biden ...

Washington, D.C. (January 25, 2022)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Rep. James Comer, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Reform Committee, introduced the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2022.  This legislation aims to improve the federal government’s cyber ...

WASHINGTON—In an op-ed published in the Daily Signal, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) detailed the ethics and national security concerns surrounding Hunter Biden's pattern of suspicious international business dealings and criticized the president's son for his role in the sale of one of the world's richest cobalt mines ...

Asks whether, and if so, why the Administration is circumventing the standard vaccine recommendation process for booster shots WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock expressing concerns over more reports the Biden Administration is improperly interfering at the FDA. This time, according to former high-ranking FDA ...

Biden’s FDA has failed to process numerous EUA applications for lifesaving COVID therapeutics WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republican lawmakers today pressed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock on the agency’s failure to process numerous pending Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) applications for lifesaving COVID-19 therapeutics and treatments. In the letter ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) opening statement at today’s Select Subcommittee’s hearing calls out President Biden for breaking his promise to “shut down the virus” and saying there "is no federal solution" to defeat COVID. Whip Scalise urges President Biden to listen to medical experts, instead of teacher union bosses, on whether or not students should ...

Blasts Democrats for ignoring the mounting crises impacting Americans’ daily lives WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted Democrats for holding a recycled hearing while refusing to conduct meaningful oversight of the Biden Administration’s many failures impacting Americans’ daily lives. At a hearing on “Price Gouging in Military Contracts: New Inspector General Report Exposes Excess Profit ...

Hunter Biden facilitated a Chinese company’s purchase from a U.S. company WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today launched a probe into Hunter Biden’s involvement in the sale of a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from an American company to a Chinese company in 2016. Cobalt is one of the most important components of electric car batteries, solar panels and other forms of renewable energy, and the ...