Press Releases

DEA and FBI may have failed to share key information on informants WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, July 4, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson testified before investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee about Operation Fast and Furious.  Following this interview, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, in a letter to Attorney ...

Washington, DC -- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released the following statement on President Obama's comments at his press conference today on Operation Fast and Furious: "President Obama's remarks today on Operation Fast and Furious were disappointing. He expressed no urgency to provide answers or explain why no one at the Justice Department, six months after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder, has accepted responsibility for authorizing an ...

South Carolina Casualties of Obama Administration's Regulatory Overreach WASHINGTON D.C. – The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released "Voices of Recovery: Neil's Story," a new video telling the story of Charleston, S.C. small business Dunhill Staffing, whose future is in doubt because of the Obama Administration's unprecedented application of ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released "Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Mike Kelly," the seventh in a series of videos introducing committee members to the American people. Rep. Kelly serves the people of Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District both as Vice Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, ...

WASHINGTON- Seeking to prevent another taxpayer bailout, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced today legislation to implement sweeping, structural reforms of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The legislation represents the most fundamental reform of the postal service that has been proposed since USPS was first created from the old Post Office Department. "The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion last ...

YouTube Town Hall Contrasts GOP & Democrat Solutions WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform and Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) entered Let's Fix This in YouTube's Town Hall Series, which pits Republican solutions to pressing national problems against Democrat alternatives. Let's Fix This outlines ...

WASHINGTON- H.R. 2146, The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, was approved the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on a unanimous bi-partisan voice vote today at a business meeting of the Committee. The Committee unanimously adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Issa. The text is available

WASHINGTON- Today, in response to the United States Postal Service (USPS) announcement that they will stop making employer's contributions for the defined benefit portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for their employees, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. issued the following statement: "The United States Postal Service, our nation's second largest employer, is now past the brink of insolvency. This would not be tolerated in ...

WASHINGTON - H.R. 2146, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, will be marked up at a business meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday, June 22nd, at 9:30 a.m. The business meeting will be streamed live at https://oversight.house.gov. Chairman Issa has released

WASHINGTON- Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement in response to the Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., introducing today companion legislation to H.R. 2146, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act. Information on Chairman Issa's version of the DATA Act can be found