Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) will finally no longer receive U.S. funding and is formally debarred for 10 years: “The Wuhan Institute of Virology should not receive another cent of U.S. taxpayer funding. After years of conducting dangerous gain-of-function research at ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) held a markup of several bills, including the bipartisan D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act, which transfers the administrative jurisdiction over the RFK stadium site, allowing the District of Columbia to revitalize the RFK Memorial stadium campus site. The Committee also passed ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled “The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in Prescription Drug Markets Part II: Not What the Doctor Ordered.”In his opening statement, Chairman Comer noted that this is the ...

Committee is considering compulsory process following inadequate response from FEMA WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) are threatening the compulsory process to obtain compliance with a May 1, 2023, oversight request for documents and information related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In the new letter to FEMA ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced H.R. 5527, the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Reform Act of 2023, which reauthorizes and reforms the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) and its governing board, the Technology Modernization Board (TMB). This bill includes several measures to improve the administration of the TMF and ensure program operations adhere to original congressional ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas.) opened a subcommittee hearing today titled “Bidenomics: A Perfect Storm of Spending, Debt, and Inflation” by discussing the failures of President Biden’s “Bidenomics” policies. President Biden has denied the ...

Oversight Committee continues to shine a light on the PBM industry WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in Prescription Drug Markets Part II: Not What the Doctor Ordered.” At the hearing, members and witnesses ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), along with a bipartisan group of Select Subcommittee members, toured the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) on Monday ahead of today’s classified briefing titled “Overseeing the Strategic National Stockpile — A Briefing with Assistant Secretary O’Connell.” The SNS is a network of strategically placed storehouses ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY.) and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas.) are continuing oversight of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council’s proposed rule on Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial risk after the FAR Council failed to provide documents, communications, and a staff briefing as requested by the Committee in an ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation held a hearing titled, “How are Federal Agencies Harnessing Artificial Intelligence?” Members asked witnesses about the federal government’s current and planned use of artificial intelligence (AI), and discussed risks associated with the widespread integration of AI into various ...