Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors Chairman Robert Duncan testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and debunked the Democrats’ baseless conspiracy theory about the Postal Service. Below are key takeaways and exchanges from the hearing. Rep. James Comer debunks the myth that Postmaster General reports to the President. Comer: ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered the following statement during House consideration of H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act, to debunk the Democrats' baseless conspiracy theory. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today in opposition to H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act. This is the result of a legislative ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after the House Democrats’ voted to make American taxpayers foot the bill for an unnecessary $25 billion bailout for the U.S. Postal Service and prevent it from making reforms to improve operations and efficiency. “The Democrats’ USPS Conspiracy Theory Act is nothing more than a costly political stunt to the tune of $25 billion. The Postal Service does not need a ...

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a federal ethics investigative and prosecutorial watchdog, to ensure ballots cast by mail are fairly delivered in a timely manner by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Additionally, the Ranking Member requested information about OSC’s oversight of the procedures in ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the House Democrats’ unnecessary $25 billion bailout for the U.S. Postal Service. The bill is nothing more than a giveaway to unions and trial lawyers that will hamstring the Postal Service, exacerbating their pre-existing fiscal problems. “Democrats have fabricated a baseless conspiracy theory about the Postal Service and now they are asking American ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s announcement that he will pause operational reforms to improve the U.S. Postal Service's efficiency until after the 2020 election. “It’s shameful that Democrats continue to manufacture baseless and wildly irresponsible conspiracy theories in order to scare the American people and undermine President Trump. In doing so, all they ...

WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the Democrats’ conspiracy theory regarding the United States Postal Service: “The Democrats’ wild and baseless conspiracy theory about the United States Postal Service is irresponsible and only undermines the American people’s faith in the integrity of the election and our institutions. The Committee on Oversight and Reform has a tremendous opportunity to ...

WASHINGTON – Today, top Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the House Committee on the Judiciary sent letters launching a probe into the District of Columbia’s unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and censorship and called on the District to uniformly respect the First Amendment rights of all citizens. On August 1, 2020, the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department arrested two individuals affiliated with the Students for Life of America for ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Subcommittee on National Security held a joint briefing with the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation to examine China’s persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. In July, National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) called on the House Oversight Democratic leadership to hold a hearing on the Chinese ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Republican members of the Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos probing the lawfulness of local orders prohibiting private and parochial schools from safely reopening and providing ...