Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Mayor Muriel Bowser to provide all documents and communications regarding the city’s extreme proposal to rename or possibly remove, relocate, or contextualize various assets and landmarks in the city, including the ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) once again called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to provide the Committee with information about what measures and employee training the company has put in place to prevent cyberattacks. Ranking Member Comer also demanded Twitter provide a briefing regarding recent lawsuits made public alleging that two Twitter ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney’s call to extend the current Census deadlines. “With the Democrats, it’s always ‘the sky is falling.’ Today’s latest call to extend the Census deadline is another phony crisis. Just last week, Census officials told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform that they anticipate a complete and accurate Census ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to honor the Committee’s bipartisan agreement on the subpoena issuance process and hold a business meeting to vote on the subpoena she intends to issue to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. On January 29, 2019, the late Chairman Elijah Cummings ...

WASHINGTON – Today, Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a report finding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to be a resounding success in protecting over 50 million jobs across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis, much of the country shut down to limit the spread of the deadly virus and prevent hospitals ...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (SSOCC) on the Trump Administration’s response to rebuild our economy. Earlier today, SSOCC Republicans released a report on the Paycheck Protection Program, finding that the Department of Treasury and Small Business ...

WASHINGTON - Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement on the Democrats’ latest coronavirus press release. “Democrats again have created another phony scandal, this time claiming they’ve unearthed individual state coronavirus data when in fact the data was publicly available all along. Data on cases, positivity rates, hospitalizations, and deaths are widely ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the Democrats’ unilateral decision to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. “Today’s antics are part of a backwards pattern by the Democrats to promote a baseless conspiracy theory about the Postal Service. Democrats held a vote on a bailout bill before even holding a hearing with the Postmaster General. And now, just one week after the Postmaster ...

WASHINGTON – Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise (R-La.) today praised the Department of Justice for announcing that it may initiate an investigation into deadly COVID-19 orders made by several Democratic governors that resulted in the deaths of elderly nursing home ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered the following statement debunking the Democrats’ fabricated myths about the U.S. Postal Service at today’s hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and USPS Board of Governors Chairman Robert Duncan. Chairwoman Maloney, I appreciate you calling this hearing today on the United States Postal Service, even though it would ...