Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), and Representative Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) are continuing an investigation into reports of fraudulent and illicit campaign activity linked to the Democrat Party’s go-to online fundraising platform, ActBlue. During the 118th Congress, the Biden Administration intentionally stonewalled this investigation by withholding ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is looking into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) potentially politically motivated approach to overseeing cryptocurrency-related activities within the banking industry. According to the new Acting Chairman of the FDIC, the agency’s efforts to monitor cryptocurrency under the Biden Administration were rife with delays and often discouraged banks from pursuing crypto-related ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services held a hearing titled “Examining the Growth of the Welfare State, Part 1” to scrutinize the enormous expansion of welfare programs over the last 60 years and evaluate strategies to reform deficiencies in the welfare system. Members explained how the bloated welfare state encourages dependency on federal assistance, ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the 119th Congress titled “Examining the Growth of the Welfare State, Part 1.” Subcommittee Chairman Grothman began his remarks by describing how the rapid expansion of welfare programs has increased dependency on federal government assistance. He explained ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) will hold a hearing titled “Examining the Growth of the Welfare State, Part 1” to scrutinize the enormous expansion of welfare programs over the last 60 years and evaluate strategies to reform deficiencies in the welfare system. Annually, the federal government spends nearly $1.2 trillion on more than 80 welfare programs. This system breeds dependency on federal assistance, penalizes married ...

WASHINGTON—House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD) — a specialized panel within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — released a draft report that promotes an unscientific, predetermined narrative about the effects of alcohol on health. Notably, the findings of ICCPUD are intended to inform the 2025 dietary ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after the results of a $9.7 million taxpayer-funded research project studying the effects of puberty blockers for transgender youth has been hidden by the project’s principal investigator. In a letter to National Institutes for Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain requests documents and ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today announced a hearing titled “Meddling with Medicare: The Biden-Harris Cover-Up” to examine the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) resulting in higher costs and fewer choices for American seniors utilizing Medicare Part D plans. “The ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are today sending a letter to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram reiterating a request for documents and communications related to the growing number of critical drug shortages impacting Americans’ medical care. In the letter, the lawmakers raise the potential for the compulsory ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are today reiterating requests to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for information related to the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In letters to HHS Secretary Becerra and USDA Secretary Vilsack, the lawmakers are again requesting ...