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38 Representatives sign letter to White House WASHINGTON - Yesterday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and 37 House members sent a letter to President Trump demanding the removal of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner, John Koskinen. The letter highlights how Koskinen provided false testimony before Congress and ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a series of document requests to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, FBI Director James Comey, Department of Defense Secretary James Mattis, and Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats requesting information about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's communications with and payments from Russian, Turkish, or other foreign ...

WASHINGTON - Today, with a bipartisan voice vote, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved H.R. 756, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2017, as amended. Upon approval, the bill's ...

WASHINGTON - Today,  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and Representatives Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) and Mark Meadows (D-NC) released a new report 

Letter to White House and agencies requests information on procedures for proper preservation WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the White House and

DOJ IG report took five years to complete inquiry WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ IG) Michael Horowitz, asking why the IG's office took nearly five years to complete an investigation into the Osorio and Barba trafficking ...

Bipartisan legislation brings greater transparency to regulatory process WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1004, the Regulatory Integrity Act of 2017, sponsored by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI). "Every year, agencies impose billions of dollars in new regulations on the backs of hard working taxpayers and American businesses. Even worse, these ...

Bipartisan legislation helps eliminate outdated, burdensome, and unnecessary regulations WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 998, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act, sponsored by

Legislation encourages agency accountability WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released a statement following the passage of H.R. 1009, the OIRA Insights, Reform, and Accountability ...

Letter requests information related to death of flood survivor due to apparent faulty MHU WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting documents regarding flood recovery efforts and a death resulting from a possible ...