Press Releases

Rep. Issa’s transparency and self-imposed moratorium on Earmarks catching on in House WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa issued the following statement on the decision of House Republicans to forbid Republican Members from making earmark requests: “For four years I have fought to fix a broken and corrupted appropriations earmark process.  Today’s decision to forgo all earmark requests delivers a real step toward reform and fiscal restraint by House ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today made clear to the American people that they’re prepared to create real accountability for those who do business with the Federal Government and are delinquent in paying their taxes – unless those delinquents happen to be Federal employees. Bipartisan legislation, H.R. 572 the “Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2009,” was debated and pulled after Democrats rejected a 

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urging him to begin the process of identifying an “industry-wide solution” to address unintended acceleration. “Per our conversation about the need to implement ...

Issa Calls on NYFRB for Lack of Transparency on MLI WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to the New York Federal Reserve Bank and a 

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an updated supplement to a report released last November investigating the firing of ...

Issa-Jordan Call for Public Hearing on Lack of Exit Strategy WASHINGTON. D.C. – Following Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement last week that the Administration will not produce a plan to protect taxpayers from mounting losses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until 2011, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Domestic Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Jordan ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding today’s health care summit in which President Obama singlehandedly spoke more than all the Republican participants combined: “While today may have been good theater, inviting Republicans over so they can just listen to one person talk is hardly bipartisanship in motion.  To be clear, Republicans are just as eager to advance ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement regarding today’s hearings in which the Committee heard testimony from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Toyota CEO and President Akio Toyoda: “The American people today received a commitment from both Toyota and the government that from this point forward will be the standard from which industry and regulators are measured ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member issued the following statement criticizing the Treasury Department’s reported plan to exclude oversight by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) in creating a new Small Business Lending Fund: "SIGTARP has been an aggressive watchdog for American taxpayers and this attempt to circumvent their oversight must not go forward. It is disturbing, but not altogether ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released a report, "Midway through the 111th Congress: Creating Accountability and Transparency under One-Party Rule." From the report: "As the Minority Members of U.S. House of Representatives chief watchdog committee, with jurisdiction to investigate all federal programs and any ...