Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2011 MEDIA ADVISORY GAO Releases Biennial High-Risk List Lieberman, Collins, Issa, Cummings, Akaka Join Comptroller General Dodaro WASHINGTON—The Chairmen and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) will hold a press conference with Comptroller General of the U.S. Eugene Dodaro at 1:30 on ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 9, 2011 Public Employee Pension Transparency Washington DC – Today, Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-21) and Senator Richard Burr (NC) announced the House introduction of the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act. Companion legislation will be introduced in the Senate next week. The legislation introduced in the House today was first introduced by Representative Nunes in December. It provides enhanced ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – In his State of the Union Address, President Obama highlighted the importance of making America a better place to do business saying, “to help our companies compete, we also have to knock down barriers that stand in the way of their success. To reduce barriers to growth and investment, I’ve ordered a review of government regulations. When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them…” At the end of last year, Rep. ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today announced a hearing for next Thursday, February 10th entitled, “Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation.” “This will be the first step in what must be a sustained effort to advance a dialogue that compliments President Obama’s call to examine regulatory barriers that are impeding job creation,” Chairman Issa said. “As Congress and the Administration begin the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Tim Walberg,” the first in a series of videos to introduce committee members to the American people. Rep. Walberg serves the people of Michigan’s 7th Congressional District on the Oversight Subcommittees on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service & Labor Policy and Technology, Information ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Heeding a damning report from Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) Neil Barofsky, Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC), announced the introduction of H.R. 430, a bill to repeal the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, invited Barofsky to testify at the committee’s first hearing on Tuesday. SIGTARP’s report ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Representative Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement lauding the introduction of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act, legislation to reauthorize and save the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. “The District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act of 2003, which created the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, was a signature legislative achievement ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “From a crippling deficit that threatens the future solvency of our country to the prolonged absence of job creation, there is widespread recognition across the ideological spectrum acknowledging the many challenges facing our nation today. What we have learned in the past two ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced today the full list of committee membership and subcommittee assignments and, along with the committee rules, after presiding over the organizational meeting of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee for the 112th Congress,. “The Oversight Committee is officially up and running. Our first hearing, conducting oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, will take place tomorrow,” Issa said, referring to ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – In a response that will be sent by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) prior to this morning’s committee organizational meeting, Chairman Issa pushed back against the litany of inaccuracies and the revisionist history adopted by Cummings. “You have expressed concern about two matters: procedures for issuing subpoenas and access to committee records,” ...