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SIGTARP Report Confirms Back-Door Bailout for Counterparties

Issa to Receive FRBNY Documents by Tomorrow WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the release of a report by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) entitled, “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties: “Behind closed doors and with no approval from ...

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Issa Calls on President Obama to Immediately Appoint Inspector General for FHFA

Questions Decision to Strip Authority of IG WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent letters today to White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Daniel Koffsky, General Counsel for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Alfred M. Pollard and FHFA’s Associate Director for Internal Audit ...

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Issa Accuses Towns of Misleading Republicans

Tomorrow’s Bank of America Hearing Fails to Include Government Witnesses WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent the following letter to Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) this morning regarding the exclusion of government witnesses from tomorrow morning’s hearing entitled:  “Joint Investigative Hearing entitled, "Bank of America and ...

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WATCH Whistleblowers’ YouTube Video and Fight the Obama EPA’s Efforts to Silence to Dissenting Opinions on Climate Change Legislation

In a YouTube video produced on their own time, EPA Whistleblowers Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel clearly state that the views expressed are their own and not that of the agency or the Obama Administration.  Even so, EPA officials ordered the couple to remove the YouTube video last week – luckily a copy survived. EPA employee Zabel has been overseeing California's cap-and-trade and offset programs for more than 20 years.  This experience made him particularly well qualified to offer an ...

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EPA Censorship of YouTube Video Raises New Questions about Administration’s Suppression of Science

WASHINGTON, DC –House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), in a joint letter expressed concern and demanded an explanation from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about EPA’s efforts to silence EPA employees who questioned ...

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Fannie-Freddie Inspector General Stripped of Authority

Issa Calls for Immediate Legislative Solution, Questions Wisdom of Providing Ongoing Federal Support From Today’s Huffington Post: “As IG, he ran into trouble the way most independent investigators do -- by investigating things people didn't ...

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Health Care Costs will Rise Unless We Have Tort Reform

States Like California Punished for Being Ahead of the Status-Quo “Many in this chamber -- particularly on the Republican side of the aisle -- have long insisted that reforming our medical malpractice laws can help bring down the cost of health care…I know that the Bush administration considered authorizing demonstration projects in individual states to test these ideas.  I think it's a good idea, and I'm directing my Secretary of Health and Human ...

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Democrats Health Care Reform Tried and Failed: Haven’t We Learned from the Mistakes of the Past?

WASHINGTON. D.C. – With unemployment rate rising to 10.2 percent (crossing the double-digit threshold for the first time since 1983), representing a loss of 190,000 jobs, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) questioned the sincerity of the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats today who claim they are “saving or creating” jobs yet continue to advance policies that kill jobs, raise taxes, punish ...

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Issa Statement on Passage of Flawed Health Care Bill

WASHINGTON, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 3962: “This 2,000 page, 1.3 trillion dollar bill will cost Americans more jobs, add to an exploding Federal deficit, make it more lucrative for trial lawyers to sue doctors, and take away health care choice.  At the same time, it won’t control the growing cost of health care.  The ...

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120 Days Overdue – Mr. President where is your National Security Plan?

House Oversight and Armed Services Committee Ranking Members Chide President on Overdue Report WASHINGTON, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa and Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon today, in a letter to President Barack Obama, expressed concern that over 270 days of the new Administration’s tenure have passed and the White House has still not put ...