Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on today’s verdict in the Hunter Biden gun trial: “Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal was smoked out after scrutiny by a federal judge. Today’s verdict is a step toward accountability but until the Department of Justice investigates everyone involved in the Bidens’ corrupt influence peddling schemes that generated over $18 million in foreign ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are today furthering an investigation into the 2023 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse and the San Francisco Federal Reserve’s failed supervision that enabled the collapse. In a letter to the Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the lawmakers are requesting documents and communications related to ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will conduct a transcribed interview with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this upcoming Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Governor Cuomo will be asked to explain the circumstances surrounding his issuance of New York’s deadly “must-admit” COVID-19 nursing home guidance. “Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo implemented nursing home policies that had deadly consequences for New York’s most vulnerable ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas), and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) are today conducting oversight of the use of “official time” by government employees for union activities. In letters to top officials at 23 federal government agencies, the lawmakers are requesting documents and information related to the use of official time by ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is today furthering the Committee’s review of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies and their impact on American businesses, consumers, and the economy. Chairman Comer is seeking more information to determine whether ESG related actions by retirement plan administrators violate the “exclusive benefit” requirements of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). In a letter to IRS Commissioner ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) will hold a hearing titled “Addressing Oversight and Safety Concerns in the Department of Defense’s V-22 Osprey Program.” The subcommittee hearing will explore the numerous deadly Osprey crashes, the risks it presents to service ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on the Judiciary Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and House Committee on Ways and Means Jason Smith (R-Mo.) today sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice recommending Hunter and James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress about key aspects of the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. These false statements implicate Joe Biden’s knowledge of and role in his ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) today announced a hearing titled “What We Have Here…Is A Failure to Collaborate: Review of GAO’s Annual Duplication Report” to examine the effectiveness of interagency collaboration and coordination in light of the Government ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “A Hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci.” This hearing is the first time Dr. Fauci has testified publicly since retiring from public service. Earlier this year, Dr. Fauci appeared in front of the Select Subcommittee for a closed-door, two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview where he testified to serious failures in America’s public health system. During Dr. Fauci’s public hearing, he confirmed ...

Today’s hearing is Dr. Fauci’s first public testimony since retiring from federal service WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) delivered opening remarks at “A Hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci.” Chairman Wenstrup explained how Dr. Fauci’s divisive rhetoric during the COVID-19 pandemic silenced dissenting opinions and shamed Americans into compliance with coercive mandates, unnecessary masking, and ...