Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a full committee roundtable titled “Farming on Trial: A Roundtable on the Growing Use of Lawfare Against American Agriculture.” This roundtable will examine how courts and litigation are increasingly shaping farm policy, with lawsuits and settlements driving regulatory outcomes rather than transparent, accountable lawmaking. Members will hear directly from farmers and producers who ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States.” During his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Sessions highlighted the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act that he is introducing today that ensures the Treasury Fiscal Service is able to stop fraudulent payments from ever going out in the first ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) delivered his opening statement at today’s roundtable on “The IRS Under Audit: A Review of Operations at the Nation’s Tax Collector.” In his remarks, Subcommittee Chairman Burchett noted that the IRS received $80 billion in supplemental funding under President Biden and the Democratic Congressional majority to hire new auditors instead of improving its inefficient taxpayer services and ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) today announced a roundtable titled “The IRS Under Audit: A Review of Operations at the Nation’s Tax Collector.” During the roundtable, members will examine the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) long-standing struggles to timely perform fundamental operations, such as processing returns, issuing refunds, and responding to inquiries. These problems plaguing the agency create costs ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) and Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs Chairman William Timmons (R-S.C.) today announced a roundtable on “Artificial Intelligence and American Power: Leadership, Security, and Prosperity.” During the roundtable, members will examine the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in determining the future of American economic growth, labor productivity, and ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) today announced a hearing on “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States” as part of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s larger investigation into curbing federal and state fraud. During the hearing, members ...

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets is continuing its investigation into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and the federal government’s continued lack of transparency surrounding the nature of these anomalies and potential security threats they pose. In a letter to U.S. Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Task Force Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) requests a series of video files ...

WASHINGTON––Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff memorandum that analyzes how policies that shield criminal illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement threaten public safety, drain resources paid for by American taxpayers, and encourage illegal immigration. It builds on a year-long Committee investigation into the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and key left-wing sanctuary jurisdictions’ refusal to allow state ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) delivered opening remarks at today’s roundtable on “Examining Mental Health in the MAHA Age.” In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Grothman highlighted that more Americans are seeking treatment for mental health issues than ever before, but that the outcomes of such treatment and the state of mental health today are significantly worse. He also pointed out that worsening mental ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) delivered his opening statement at today’s roundtable titled “Doing More With Less: Deleting Duplicative Programs.” In his remarks, Subcommittee Chairman Burchett highlighted that the federal government spends around $7 trillion dollars annually on more than 2,400 federal assistance programs, which is more than twice the number of programs that existed in the 1970s. He also that a vast and ...