Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on President Biden’s legislative proposal pushing amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants while containing no reforms to address the issues fueling the border crisis.   “Our nation was founded on the rule of law but President Biden wants to reward millions of illegal immigrants who broke our laws with amnesty. This is unfair to the millions of ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) blasted Oversight Democrats for pushing two dozen transportation and hospitality businesses to act as law enforcement by helping to identify and prevent violent attacks in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. “We must rely on the law and our law enforcement to prevent future violence, not private industries. The responsibility for the abhorrent destruction and death in our nation’s capital lies ...

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) and House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) requesting information about the failure on the part of DCPS and WTU to safely reopen schools in Washington, D.C. The letter follows a recent

WASHINGTON—Today, the Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2021 (H.R. 26), introduced by House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), passed the U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous, bipartisan support. Ranking Member Comer applauded House passage in the statement below. “The federal government must spend taxpayer dollars on the best possible products at the best price. The Construction Consensus Procurement ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on the finalization of a rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishing how scientific data will be included in future regulatory action. The rule, ‘Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information,’ will improve the public’s access to EPA’s scientific analyses ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) blasted today’s passage of the Democrats’ rules for the House of Representatives during the 117th Congress: “The Democrats’ rules for this Congress reveal their top priority is political power, not the American people. Not only does the rules package stifle free speech and contain ridiculous left-wing ideas such as banning the use of gender-based pronouns and terms like mother and father, it ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) issued the following statements on the appointment of California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to Kamala Harris’ Senate seat: “Alex Padilla’s actions as California Secretary of State raise serious ethical and legal questions and we must have answers ...

WASHINGTON—Today, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement on the Democrats’ subpoenas issued to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield. “Today’s subpoenas are just for show. Issuing midnight subpoenas that turn into pumpkins in less than two weeks will not speed up production of the tens of thousands of ...

Comer and Smith Raise Concerns About Several Potential Appointments' Conflicts of Interest WASHINGTON— House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member-Elect Jason Smith (R-Mo.) today flagged serious concerns over three potential cabinet picks—Anthony Blinken for Secretary of State, Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Neera Tanden for Director of the Office of ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the statement below following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a challenge to the Trump administration’s plan to exclude illegal immigrants in the reapportionment of congressional seats. “I applaud the Supreme Court’s sound decision not to weigh in on activist litigation. Including illegal immigrants in the count for representation in Congress only dilutes the representation of all ...