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WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Reforming the WHO: Ensuring Global Health Security and Accountability” to examine the effectiveness of the World Health Organization (WHO), assess its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore areas for improvement. Three Biden Administration officials from the U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were in agreeance ...

Biden Administration removed U.S. from the accord which promotes women’s health and strengthening the family WASHINGTON— Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) and several Subcommittee Republican members are expressing support for the U.S. to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family. In a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken, ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) made the following statement after Hunter Biden failed to appear for his deposition: “Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden. As our committees were today prepared to depose Hunter Biden, he chose to make a ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of House Resolution 918, a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Below are Chairman Comer’s ...

Below are Select Subcommittee Chairman Wenstrup’s remarks as prepared for delivery: Today the Select Subcommittee is holding a hearing to examine the future of the World Health Organization.   The World Health Organization is supposed to be the preeminent ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) applauded today’s passage of the resolution authorizing the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden (H. Res. 918): “Evidence uncovered reveals Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefitted from his family cashing in on the Biden name. Joe Biden is ‘the brand’ that allowed the Bidens to rake in millions from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. Joe Biden has ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.) today are conducting oversight of data sharing agreements between and among the Department of Treasury (Treasury), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In letters to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Director of the CFPB Rohit Chopra, and Commissioner of the IRS Daniel Werfel, the lawmakers request documents and communications ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) influence over federal employees by weaponizing its designation of “hate group” to target conservative organizations. In a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Chairman Comer requests all communications between the Department of Education and the SPLC to determine how extensively federal employees are utilizing ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) are pressing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aid, Melissa DeRosa, for answers following recent claims that she was not involved in New York’s deadly COVID-19 nursing home directive. Less than seven hours after the Select Subcommittee requested Ms. DeRosa sit for a transcribed interview and provide documents related to New York’s ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are opening a probe into the U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) mishandling of serious misconduct, including racism, hazing, discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape, and the withholding of internal investigations into these offenses from Congress and the public. “Recently, it ...