Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference today, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a video showing the close connection between President Barack Obama and the disgraced community organizing group ACORN.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) yesterday sent a letter requesting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke turn over all Fed documents related to the bailout of AIG and its credit-default counterparties. Issa and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have led the recent investigation into the details of the taxpayer-funded AIG bailout that ...

Documents and testimony from ACORN whistleblowers reveal that ACORN activities – despite contentions they are intended to help the poor – fulfill a self-serving and political purpose WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today released a new report, “Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies” ...

Renews Call to Expand Witness Panel to Include Former Bush Administration Officials WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) asking him to extend an invitation to Toyota President Akio Toyoda to participate in the panel’s February 24th ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Domestic Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asking Treasury to disclose crucial numbers deleted from its monthly reports on the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Until its December 2009 ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus “Ed” Towns and Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today wrote to several major auto insurance companies asking whether any of these companies reported sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) incidents to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).   Letters were sent to the following insurance companies: Geico, State Farm Group, Progressive Group, Allstate Insurance and ...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. and Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., today said taxpayers shouldn’t be funding questionable climate science and called for a review of more than $2.5 million in stimulus grants awarded to one climate researcher who is under investigation for his role in the Climategate scandal that unearthed efforts by leading climate scientists to destroy data, distort research and prevent publication of ...

Wants to know what measures have been taken to ensure investigation is free of politics, conflicts of interest WASHINGTON D.C. –Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has asked Attorney General Eric Holder for more details on press reports that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been asked to investigate whether attorneys defending terrorist suspects currently held at ...

Renews Call to Expand Witness Panel to Include Former Bush Administration Officials WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) asking him to extend an invitation to Toyota President Akio Toyoda to participate in the panel’s February 24th hearing, “Toyota Gas Pedals: Is the Public at Risk?,” or to convene a subsequent hearing ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Following reports that Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda is planning to come to the United States to meet with dealers and suppliers, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) said today that he will be inviting Mr. Toyoda to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill the week of February 22nd and will be sending a letter to the panel’s Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) requesting that he invite the Toyota CEO to participate in ...