Press Releases

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 ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking the department to cooperate with a committee investigation “of stimulus spending in order to ensure taxpayer funds are spent wisely and efficiently.” The Associated Press has reported that “despite Obama's promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Commitee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-Vista) today issued a statement regarding reassessments by the Office of Management and Budget and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that reveal a projected ten-year budget deficit of $9.1 trillion: “Today's budget numbers show the Obama Administration has vastly underestimated every aspect of our financial crisis: from unemployment to deficits, from mythical 'jobs ...

Oversight Republican Asks IRS, FEC, SBA, HUD, and Dept. of Labor to Answer Critical Questions Following Report Outlining Criminal Activity WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has sent five letters to Departments and Federal Agencies asking questions about ACORN’s illegal activities and federal funding grants to this political organization. The Oversight and Government Reform ...

“I have told each of my Cabinet, as well as mayors and governors across the country, that they will be held accountable by me and the American people for every dollar they spend.” – President Barack Obama, 2/24/2009, Address to Joint Session of Congress WASHINGTON. D.C. – A report released by the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Transportation has raised questions surrounding projects that received stimulus dollars that were of ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today repeated his call for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to move forward with a subpoena of critical Countrywide VIP documents following the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee to dismiss complaints against Sen. Chris Dodd and Sen. Kent Conrad: “This decision clears the way for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to subpoena the ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statement concerning a story in today's Wall Street Journal: “This story does not change my approach to the investigation of the Countrywide VIP program. I will continue to press forward with this investigation and strongly believe that a subpoena to Bank of America is a necessary next step to fully expose how Countrywide attempted to use its ...