Press Releases

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil Barofsky, released a report today raising new questions surrounding the accuracy and methodology of projections (Retrospective) recently released by the Treasury Department suggesting that taxpayers might profit from the taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG. “It is nothing short of a betrayal of public trust for the ...

Program’s Fallen ‘Woefully Short’ of Goal to Preserve Homeownership WASHINGTON D.C. – The Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil Barofsky, released a report today characterizing the Treasury Departments’ claim that ‘every single person’ who participates in the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) gets ‘a ...

Biggest Banks are Bigger, Advantage for the Too Big To Fail WASHINGTON D.C. – “The recession has ended in name only” while “Main Street has largely suffered alone” are some of the observations made in a sobering and at times scathing report that will be released tomorrow by the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement today thanking George Soros for his generous $1.8 million endowment to National Public Radio (NPR) and demonstrating why NPR no longer needs to receive or be eligible to apply for taxpayer dollars: “With NPR benefitting from the generosity of people like MoveOn.org financier George Soros, it’s obvious that NPR is now a ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republicans and the Republican Study Committee today issued the following video release: “Putting the Power Back in Your Hands.” WWATCH: ...

WATCH: “The Anvil” RT Let’s get “The Anvil” (VIDEO: http://bit.ly/97kv3E) of ObamaCare off American small businesses. @DarrellIssa @PeterRoskam

Maybe Democrats in Congress could make a much more compelling case to keep their jobs if they actually started doing it. VISTA, CA - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement today amid new reports that the U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September as Gallup reports unemployment hitting 10.1% while the President seems preoccupied with "hand-to-hand combat" and congressional Democrats are ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released new documents delivered to the Committee by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last night that conclusively reveal that the FDA has issued statements to the media that are inconsistent with key facts related to the investigation and that an FDA ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following statement tonight regarding deceptive comments made by House Majority WHIP Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews: “The fact that Jim’s paranoia and imagination have resulted in the resuscitation of ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter today to the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Daniel Levinson asking that he “initiate an investigation to determine if FDA employees…have purposely and improperly ...