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VIDEO RELEASE: “Putting the Power Back in Your Hands”

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republicans and the Republican Study Committee today issued the following video release: “Putting the Power Back in Your Hands.” WWATCH: ...

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ObamaCare: The Anvil on America’s Small Businesses

WATCH: “The Anvil” RT Let’s get “The Anvil” (VIDEO: http://bit.ly/97kv3E) of ObamaCare off American small businesses. @DarrellIssa @PeterRoskam

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Issa Dares Obama to Move Beyond “Hand-to-Hand Combat” and Challenge Speaker Pelosi to Get Back to Work

Maybe Democrats in Congress could make a much more compelling case to keep their jobs if they actually started doing it. VISTA, CA - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement today amid new reports that the U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September as Gallup reports unemployment hitting 10.1% while the President seems preoccupied with "hand-to-hand combat" and congressional Democrats are ...

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New Documents Prove FDA Knew and Misled Congress

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released new documents delivered to the Committee by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last night that conclusively reveal that the FDA has issued statements to the media that are inconsistent with key facts related to the investigation and that an FDA ...

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Issa to Clyburn: Paranoid Much?

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following statement tonight regarding deceptive comments made by House Majority WHIP Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews: “The fact that Jim’s paranoia and imagination have resulted in the resuscitation of ...

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Issa Calls on HHS Inspector General to Initiate Investigation of FDA’s Effort to Impede and Mislead Congressional Investigation

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter today to the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Daniel Levinson asking that he “initiate an investigation to determine if FDA employees…have purposely and improperly ...

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Issa: Vote on Tax Breaks or Resign

WASHINGTON D.C. - Following the statement today by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) that the Congress is not likely to vote on extending tax cuts that would benefit all Americans until after the November 2nd midterm elections, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said today that if Democrats are willing to leave Washington without acting on tax relief for the American people, they might as well ...

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Issa: Do-Nothing Congress an Embarrassment, Refusal to Allow Up-or-Down Vote on Tax Breaks for the American People “Cowardly”

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) called on Congressional Democrats to take immediate action to extend tax cuts for all Americans before adjourning to convince the very American people who would benefit from those tax cuts to let them keep their job: “This Congress is redefining the meaning of do-nothing and the fact that Congressional Democrats used their time and effort today to get ...

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Issa-Backed Bill to Reinstate FOIA for the SEC Passes Congress, Sent to President Obama

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today applauded House passage of S. 3717, which repealed section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that allowed the SEC to not "disclose records or information" that are typically subjects of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.  S. 3717, which also passed the Senate unanimously includes similar ...

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HUD Inspector General Exposes ACORN’s Failure to Comply with Federal Grant Requirements Recommends ACORN Spin-Off Be Placed on ‘Inactive’ Status

WASHINGTON D.C. – In response to a September 16, 2009 request by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Inspections and Evaluations Division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)