Press Releases

WASHINGTON. D.C. – On June 2, 2009, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis requesting documents that would shed light on Countrywide’s infamous VIP program that was used to curry favor through sweetheart mortgage deals with Federal Government officials and Members of Congress who held responsibilities related to housing policy. Bank of America acquired Countrywide in 2008. In ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), yesterday, in a letter to the Office of Labor-Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor objecting to plans to withdrawal a reporting rule for the nation’s largest labor organizations that offers union members an unprecedented level of transparency through which they can hold their union and its officers accountable. “While the ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today in response to a letter from Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General of TARP, responding to inquiries from Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding SIGTARP’s position within Treasury: “At a time when the Treasury and Federal Reserve are exercising unprecedented powers intervening in ...

White House Officials Call Firing an Act of “Political Courage” WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today asked Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Lawrence G. Brown to answer critical questions about communications with the White House that led to the dismissal of AmeriCorps IG Gerald Walpin and the legal basis for a number of assertions made in an ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statement about President Obama’s plans to overhaul the financial system: “President Obama’s prescription of more bailouts, more regulation, and more government everything just won’t fix the economy.  This misguided effort to expand government powers over financial markets ignores many failures of government that ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, in a letter to White House Counsel Gregory Craig, asked that the White House produce all e-mail and other communications with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California regarding the dismissal of AmeriCorps Inspector General (IG) Gerald Walpin. “Despite the ...

“We have promised the highest ethical standard and we will deliver it, in an open and honest government.”- Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), July 31, 2007 WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement tonight after the Democrat Majority decided to shut down the open amendment process following debate on the first Republican Amendment: “Once again, Speaker Pelosi and congressional ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) today released an exclusive video (see video here) of the June 3, 2009 ceremony unveiling President Ronald Reagan’s statue in the Capitol Rotunda. The video gives Californians of the 49th Congressional District an inside look at this historic event honoring one of California’s greatest leaders and America’s greatest Presidents. “President Reagan’s statue is the highest honor ...

WASHINGTON. D.C.– Ten House Ranking Republican Members are requesting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) give stakeholders more time to respond to the Proposed Endangerment Finding, which is the predicate for regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) through the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA has initially established June 23, 2009, as the deadline for interested parties to comment. “Clearly, EPA's final decision on the ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Despite objective evidence that the President’s Economic Stimulus is failing to meet expectations for creating and protecting jobs, President Obama and other officials continue to claim that the Stimulus has “created or saved” 150,000 jobs and will create or save an additional 600,000 in the next 100 days. These claims create concern because they are contradicted by available information and the Administration, mysteriously, refuses ...