Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa, today in a letter to National Security Advisor Jim Jones, asked the Administration to respond to questions and provide information about efforts to prevent the Internet publication of leaked national security documents.  Issa’s query comes in advance of the anticipated publication of classified Department of Defense documents obtained by the organization ...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released a video – Signs of a Failed Stimulus – criticizing the Obama Administration for using taxpayer money to pay for propaganda signs touting both President Barack Obama and the failed stimulus program.

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Responding to today’s White House’s housing summit, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called on the Obama Administration to make exposing the full extent of the ‘too-cozy’ relationship between the mortgage industry and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as key priority in the effort to determine the government sponsored enterprise’s future.  In July,an investigation conducted Issa exposed that in ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the legality of taxpayer funded propaganda efforts undertaken by the Obama Administration.  GAO has investigated accusations of covert propaganda under previous Administrations and found them unlawful. “Although Federal laws prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars for covert propaganda, ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary Committee Member released the following statement reacting to a decision from the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to uphold a bipartisan law sponsored by Issa that overwhelmingly passed the Congress and was signed into law by the President last year denying all federal funding to the Association of Community Organizers for ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – As the White House prepares for Tuesday’s housing summit, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called on the Obama Administration tomake the ‘too-cozy’ relationship between the mortgage industry and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a key focal point of discussion.  In July, 

WASHINGTON. D.C. – In February, allegations that someone inside the Obama White House offered Pennsylvania Senate Democratic nominee and three-star Navy Admiral Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) a job in exchange for his withdrawal from the PA Senate Primary race were made by Sestak himself.  In late-May, White House Counsel Robert ...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today issued the following release in response to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke’s deceptive announcement that the 2010 Census saved taxpayers $1.6 billion, when in fact the Census ran $3 billion over its estimated budget.  The original lifecycle cost of the 2010 Census was estimated at $11.3 billion – 

Issa:  Rather than Return for One Day, Congress Should Stay in Session WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement today regarding the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its unemployment report for the month of July showing the loss of 131,000 jobs while unemployment remained unchanged at 9.5%: “How many more months of losing ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement today regarding the Obama Administration’s latest act of propaganda claiming a correlation between jobs “funded” and jobs “created”: “From the same folks who brought us the inaccurate and impossible to measure jobs “created or saved” metric, comes new numbers of jobs “funded” despite the fact that ...