Press Releases

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-TX) have sent a letter to White House Counsel Gregory Craig calling for the release of information pertaining to the appointment of a number of senior Administration advisors, otherwise known as “czars.” “According to publicly available information, a pattern of behavior and associations ...

Highlights Need for Full Investigation into Activities WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) partnered with House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to sponsor legislation that would sever ties between the federal government and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).  At the same time, House Republicans are also sending a letter to ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Speaking today on the House floor on healthcare, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked, “When will this body deal with the problem in many cases created by government in a way that the American people can have the confidence that in fact we view problems as something that gets solved…We still don’t’ get it, the crisis is hear in Washington.  The crises are created in Washington ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – In a letter to Administrator Lisa Jackson, Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) warned that if the Environmental Protection Agency moved forward with rumored plans to dismantle the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), the agency would dramatically weaken its ability to understand and evaluate the economic impact of its regulatory proposals.  Moreover, the move has the appearance of retaliation against ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today applauded U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves’ decision to terminate its partnership with ACORN in conducting the 2010 Census. “ACORN had no business working on the Census.  ACORN’s partisan election efforts and its involvement in criminal conduct rightly disqualified it from working on the non-partisan mission of the Census to ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding a report released today by President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors that suggests that the “stimulus” has “saved or created” more than 1 million jobs: “The flawed macroeconomic models that produce deceptive and self-serving reports of the effects of the Obama-Pelosi stimulus program are the gift that keeps on ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on President Barack Obama’s address to Congress on Health Care reform: “Up to this point, negotiations on health care reform have been driven by a left-wing push toward a public option and an expensive government health care takeover.  The American people have rejected this partisan approach. “After tonight’s ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released video of a rally that took place today in front of the Department of Education and a statement calling on Congress and the Obama Administration to reauthorize the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. In May, Issa, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon introduced a bill to continue funding the program ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statement on the decision by 80% taxpayer owned AIG to seek binding arbitration in its legal dispute with former CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. “The losers in binding arbitration are the trial lawyers who pocketed tens of millions in taxpayer dollars while advising AIG to pursue years of litigation in the courtroom. If AIG is to repay ...

Who Can Taxpayers Hold Accountable? WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sent letters today to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Neil Barofsky calling for an “audit of the formation, content and operation of these [AIG] trust ...