Press Releases

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the following statement today regarding a federal judge’s ruling to block key provisions of legislation passed by the State of Arizona providing state law enforcement with the authority to enforce immigration laws: “The federal government has a right and a responsibility ...

President Obama at Signing of Financial Reform Bill:  “It demands accountability and responsibility from everyone…It demands accountability and responsibility from everyone…And we all win when folks are rewarded based on how well they perform, not how well they evade accountability.” WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today demanded answers from ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Later today, the House is expected to pass a H.R. 4899, the War Supplemental Appropriations Act.  Tucked away in this war funding bill is a provision to provide the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) with a 22-percent funding increase ($1.8 million).  In light of this additional funding provision that came at the request of the FCIC, Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter today to the Chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board (RAT Board) Earl Devaney today requesting a full explanation of activities conducted by the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today blasted Committee Democrats for stonewalling efforts to question White House officials on record keeping abuses related to the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act by using personal e-mail accounts to circumvent rules and e-mail lobbyists.  He also praised Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Inspector General (IG) David Kotz has agreed to a 

Fannie-Freddie Represents the Largest Taxpayer Bailout in History but Future Met with Deafening Silence WASHINGTON D.C. – President Obama today signed a “financial reform” bill into law today that remarkably ignored how the economic crisis was created by a partnership between the federal government and Gov­ernment Sponsored Enterprises (GSE’s) such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who paved the way for an over-inflated housing bubble that encouraged mortgage ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – The Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil Barofsky, today released its quarterly report that blasted the Treasury Department for instituting “the equivalent of a fully deployed TARP program” without transparency and for setting “meaningless” standards to measure the true impact of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), characterizing it as “anemic” and a “government program ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – An investigation conducted by Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is revealing new insights into the inner workings of Countrywide’s Financial Corporation’s infamous VIP and Friends of Angelo Program that existed to buy friends in critical government and industry positions affecting the company’s business interests. An e-mail discovered in the course of the Committee’s investigation, revealed an ...

WASHINGTON, DC – An investigation conducted by Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is revealing new insights into the inner workings of Countrywide’s Financial Corporation’s infamous VIP and Friends of Angelo Program that existed to buy friends in critical government and industry positions affecting the company’s business interests.  Issa today in a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ...