Press Releases

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (CA), the Ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today renewed his request to Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) to investigate reports that the Administration has inappropriately suppressed internal dissent in the Cap & Trade debate. “By limiting the range of acceptable viewpoints at the agency, EPA is undermining the trust and confidence the American ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Republicans announced today their four appointments to the 10-member Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission formed to investigate the causes, handling, and way forward from the current financial crisis. The creation was such a panel was first proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last fall. Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas has been appointed to ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and member of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller today calling on him to “to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing by CIA employees…to include questions raised by members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence about whether the CIA Director’s communications to Members of Congress and ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) joined today with House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) in introducing legislation to reauthorize the District of Columbia’s groundbreaking school choice program. Since 2004, this program has provided unprecedented educational opportunities for thousands of inner-city students who are ...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the following statement about his decision to vote against H.R. 2454, legislation that would create a national energy tax: “By establishing a tax on the use of energy, this bill will send American jobs to China and raise the price of gasoline and electricity for American families,” said Rep. Issa.  “President Obama has explained ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today, in sworn testimony, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in his opening statement: I did not tell Bank of America’s management that the Federal Reserve would take action against the board or management if they decided to proceed with the MAC. Moreover, I did not instruct anyone to indicate to Bank of America that the Federal Reserve would take any particular action under those ...

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 ...