Press Releases

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) school reopening guidance: “Today’s CDC guidance essentially reiterates the same guidance issued eight months ago. It’s time for President Biden to stand up to the unions and reopen schools. The science could not be more straightforward: schools must safely ...

Measure also provides an additional 600 hours of paid leave to federal employees WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after Democrats advanced a $350 billion bailout for state and local governments and $570 million in additional paid leave for federal and postal workers. The partisan legislation passed the Oversight Committee without a single Republican amendment. “The ...

California granted an estimated $11-$31 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), and Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) today called on Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to hold a hearing to investigate billions in fraudulent unemployment benefits granted by the California Employment Development Department. “Governor Newsom ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement after Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced the markup of a $350 billion bailout for state and local governments and $570 million for additional paid leave for federal employees and postal workers, which is part of the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme. “Democrats’ plan to bail out locked-down, poorly managed liberal states is unfair to ...

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today called out Subcommittee Democrats for ignoring the Biden Administration’s potential political interference in the coronavirus response and demanded the Democrats expand their investigation to include the current administration. In a letter to Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Scalise points out that the Biden Administration chastised U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Call on Secretary Yellen, Treasury Inspector General to Investigate Funding Distribution WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) today wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Department of Treasury Deputy Inspector General Richard Delmar calling for accountability and transparency regarding the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF), part of the CARES ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today announced the ranking members and membership of the panel’s five subcommittees for the 117th Congress. “The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has a talented lineup of Republican Members and our new leadership team will be instrumental in our efforts to hold the federal government accountable and make it more transparent to the people it serves,” said Ranking ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.), and Committee Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting all documents and communications related to President Joe Biden’s unilateral decision to halt construction of the southern border wall. The Biden Administration’s sudden push to lighten border security and propose amnesty for ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing the humanitarian and national security crisis at our southern border is being left unchecked by Congressional Democrats and fueled by President Joe Biden’s radical, far-left immigration policies. In his opening statement, Ranking Member Comer notes the Biden Administration has completely gutted interior enforcement priorities, halted the deportation ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas), and Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) today wrote to the Biden-Harris Transition Team and White House Counsel’s office about President Biden’s “unprecedented removal” of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb and Deputy General Counsel Alice Stock, who ...