Press Releases

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 ...

Criticizes Democrats for potentially damaging victims' families ability to get restitution WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing outlining the destructive role Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family played in catalyzing and exacerbating the opioid epidemic. Ranking Member Comer also emphasized his disappointment with Committee Democrats for endangering a settlement agreement by pursuing this hearing in the ...

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Reform today held a hearing with the CEO of Purdue Pharma and two members of the Sackler family about their role in the opioid epidemic. At the hearing, Republican members blasted Purdue Pharma’s marketing strategies, spearheaded by the Sackler family, which endangered lives by encouraging prescriptions of OxyContin to not just those in need. They called out Democrats for holding the hearing during the middle of settlement negotiations, which ...

Members request Maloney follow House Attending Physician’s guidelines and other committees’ examples by holding hybrid or socially distanced hearings WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans today renewed their call for Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to hold hybrid or socially distanced hearings instead of remote hearings. In their letter to Chairwoman Maloney, the Committee Republicans raise ...