Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is following up on the Committee’s subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for documents, communications, and intelligence reports in DHS’s custody related to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). DHS has not complied with the subpoena, and Chairman Comer is now releasing partial DHS internal communications obtained from a whistleblower, ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing the Committee’s investigation into NewsGuard’s impact on protected First Amendment speech and how its contracts with government agencies may contribute to censorship under the guise of combatting misinformation. In a follow up letter to NewsGuard Chief Executive Officers Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, Chairman Comer requests additional documents and communications from NewsGuard ...

Staff report finds that the Biden-Harris Administration lacks a government-wide strategy to counter China’s tactics and provides recommendations to help federal agencies secure America WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) released a staff report today titled “CCP Political Warfare: Federal Agencies Urgently Need a Government-Wide Strategy.” The report, which includes information obtained during the

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is continuing the Committee’s investigation into the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to pressure social media companies to censor Americans online. Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace previously sent a letter in

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas), and Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) are continuing to investigate the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ban on new permits for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries. They are raising concerns that DOE has not been fully transparent with Congress about a study on ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today released the committee’s accomplishments for the 118th Congress under Republican leadership. In a 72-page booklet provided to Republican committee members, Chairman Comer outlines how Republicans restored the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to its primary duty to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government and hold the Biden-Harris Administration ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is opening an investigation into the Department of Energy (DOE) after uncovering new information that suggests America’s most advanced scientific institution, Los Alamos National Laboratory, is using machinery linked to the Chinese military. According to recent evidence obtained by the Select Subcommittee, Los Alamos operates equipment that was created by the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) — ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing his investigation into the politicization of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the leadership of Chair Lina Khan. In a letter to Chair Khan, Chairman Comer requests documents and communications about Chair Khan’s partisan election activities and whether her appearances at campaign-season events with Democrat candidates—as the head of an independent, bipartisan federal ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is continuing to conduct oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) enforcement of the Horse Protection Act (HPA) and its promulgation of a final rule titled Horse Protection Amendments. Information obtained by the Oversight Committee and recent actions at Tennessee Walking Horse shows reveals USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) may be exceeding its ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is today investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to revoke an award authorizing Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Starlink to receive $885.5 million in broadband deployment subsidies through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). In a letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairman Comer is requesting documents and communications related ...