Press Releases

Subcommittee Hearing Examines the Future of Artificial Intelligence   WASHINGTON – Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened today’s joint hearing by emphasizing Congress has the responsibility to thoroughly examine artificial intelligence (AI) prior to investing billions of taxpayer dollars in the technology and ensure Americans’ privacy is protected.  In his opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member ...

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statements on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s call to “wait for the facts:” “Governor Cuomo calls on New Yorkers and the American people to wait for the facts about his sexual harassment scandal, but it is Governor Cuomo himself who needs to give us the facts ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on President Biden’s speech marking the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns: “President Trump started America’s recovery and President Biden must decide if he will finish it. Thanks to President Trump’s strong leadership and support for Operation Warp Speed, more Americans today have been vaccinated than those who have contracted ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted House passage of the $1.9 trillion Pelosi Payoff to Progressives Act, which now heads to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law: “Pelosi’s Payoff is the Swamp at its worst. Pelosi’s Payoff has little to do with providing pandemic relief to hardworking American families and has everything to do with advancing their left-wing agenda. The bill spends hundreds of ...

Previous Republican inquiries remain unanswered as border facilities are pushed to the brink  WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans sent another letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reiterating their concerns about the Biden Administration’s recent actions to unravel the former administration’s deterrent-focused border policies and their failure ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s announcement it encountered over 100,000 illegal immigrants in February, a 28 percent increase over January 2021: “The facts don’t lie: President Biden has created a crisis at the southern border. On day ...

WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.), and Congressman Bob Good (R-Va.) this week introduced the Guidance Out Of Darkness (GOOD) Act, which requires agencies to publish their regulatory guidance on the Internet ...

WASHINGTON—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.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) today called for a bipartisan investigation into the effects school closures are having on children with disabilities, and state and local ...

WASHINGTON – With new revelations that political aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deliberately interfered with state public health officials in order to mask the true magnitude of COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the state, Republican Congressional leaders urged their House Democrat counterparts to hold a joint hearing regarding the undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes. The letter was signed by Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) expressing concerns over the current crisis occurring at the southern border stemming from President Biden’s open borders policies. Recent reports indicate container facilities holding unaccompanied children are now nearly overflowing and a surge of illegal immigration has become inevitable due to President ...