Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today exposed the cost, corruption, and liberal wish-list contained in the Pelosi Payoff to Progressives Act during House consideration of the $1.9 trillion bill.    Below are Ranking Member Comer’s floor remarks as prepared for delivery. This bill isn’t about COVID.  It isn’t about providing relief to struggling Americans. This massive $1.9 ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans today called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to hold a series of hearings on child welfare and reopening schools. “Children are more at risk from school closures than the coronavirus itself,” said Ranking Member Comer. “The science and experts have made it abundantly clear that we can reopen schools safely, but radical unions continue with their ...

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today released a timeline of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s order mandating COVID-19 positive patients to be admitted to nursing homes and long-term care facilities, his actions to cover up the scandal, and his obstruction of congressional oversight and justice. “The facts are simple: Governor Cuomo issued an order sending thousands of contagious COVID-19 ...

Call for an end to Democrats’ mailbox myths and unsubstantiated partisan rhetoric WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) opened today’s hearing about the United States Postal Service (USPS) with calls for bipartisan reforms and an end to the unsubstantiated, partisan attacks against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. In his remarks, Comer ...

WASHINGTON—In an op-ed published on Fox News, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) outline how Pelosi’s Payoff for Progressives is the wrong bill, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons and emphasize the goal is to satisfy a political agenda and bail out political ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans today called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to issue subpoenas for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s testimony before the Oversight Committee and for the documents, information, and communications Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Republicans have requested repeatedly from Governor Cuomo related to his order mandating contagious coronavirus patients to be ...

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Reform today held a hearing on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to discuss the need for substantive reforms to improve the Postal Service’s fiscal sustainability and service to the American people. Republicans repeatedly called for Democrats to cease their partisan and unsubstantiated rhetoric about the Postal Service and encouraged their colleagues across the aisle to work with them on reasonable reforms.

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) opened today’s hearing on the federal workforce by outlining several of the effective reform efforts President Trump established to improve the federal bureaucracy and make it more accountable to the American people. In his remarks, Hice chastised Democrats for seeking to undo President Trump’s reform efforts and emphasized morale improved in the federal workforce under President Trump.

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Government Operations today held a hearing on reforming the federal workforce. At the hearing, Republicans continued to advocate for making the federal workforce more efficient, effective, and accountable to the American people. Republicans also discussed President Trump’s successful efforts to implement meaningful change and improve morale across the federal workforce. Republican members emphasized the need for a merit-based system to address federal ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) today wrote letters to leaders at American Oversight and Accountable US regarding their joint effort, “Campaign Against Corporate Complicity,” that aims to blacklist public servants who served in the Trump Administration from future employment. The campaigns are an aggressive effort to discriminate against Republicans for executing the policies of a duly elected president. “The ...