Press Releases

WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa, in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, requested answers as to why the Obama Administration HHS has not implemented 53 of 63 Inspector General recommendations made last year.  The failure to implement these changes came to light following the release of a new report last week by the HHS IG. “While this Administration talks big on health reforms, HHS has compiled a ...

Issa Challenges Speaker to Hold Up or Down Vote on H.R. 3438 WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has challenged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to hold an up-or-down vote on H.R. 3438, the Access to ...

Latest report on progress of HAMP attempts to move goal posts, hide program’s failure WASHINGTON D.C. – In a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ranking Member of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee, blasted manipulations in a recent report on the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, saying Treasury instead ...

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and House Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member and Judiciary Committee Member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today expressed concern over the Obama administration’s continued refusal to investigate voter registration fraud allegations against ACORN. In a 

Rep. Issa’s transparency and self-imposed moratorium on Earmarks catching on in House WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa issued the following statement on the decision of House Republicans to forbid Republican Members from making earmark requests: “For four years I have fought to fix a broken and corrupted appropriations earmark process.  Today’s decision to forgo all earmark requests delivers a real step toward reform and fiscal restraint by House ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today made clear to the American people that they’re prepared to create real accountability for those who do business with the Federal Government and are delinquent in paying their taxes – unless those delinquents happen to be Federal employees. Bipartisan legislation, H.R. 572 the “Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2009,” was debated and pulled after Democrats rejected a 

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urging him to begin the process of identifying an “industry-wide solution” to address unintended acceleration. “Per our conversation about the need to implement ...

Issa Calls on NYFRB for Lack of Transparency on MLI WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to the New York Federal Reserve Bank and a 

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an updated supplement to a report released last November investigating the firing of ...

Issa-Jordan Call for Public Hearing on Lack of Exit Strategy WASHINGTON. D.C. – Following Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement last week that the Administration will not produce a plan to protect taxpayers from mounting losses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until 2011, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Domestic Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Jordan ...