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WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold his final hearing of the 118th Congress titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward.” This hearing will evaluate the most effective strategies for improving America’s public health response during a future crisis, identify important lessons learned during the previous pandemic, and ultimately conclude the Select Subcommittee’s assessment of the ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) will hold a joint hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” This second hearing on the topic of Unidentified Anomalous ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after the results of a $9.7 million taxpayer-funded research project studying the effects of puberty blockers for transgender youth has been hidden by the project’s principal investigator. In a letter to National Institutes for Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain requests documents and ...

WASHINGTON— Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are investigating instances of local law enforcement, including Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano, who refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when illegal aliens are booked in their county jails. In a letter to County of ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) today are demanding answers about the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) potential retaliation against two whistleblowers, IRS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Gary Shapley and Special Agent (SA) Joseph Ziegler, who blew the whistle on politicization and misconduct in the federal ...

WASHINGTON—House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) are continuing their investigation into the Biden-Harris White House’s creation of a false transcript that revised President Joe Biden’s remarks, in which he referred to President Trump’s supporters as “garbage.”  A recent report reveals that while White House stenographers submitted an accurate transcript to the National Archives ...

Evidence Suggests Andrew Cuomo knowingly and willfully made false statements to Congress about his COVID-19 nursing home disaster WASHINGTON – Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) recommending former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo be charged with making false statements to Congress. In an apparent effort to shield himself from accountability, evidence suggests Mr. ...

Report details how Chair Khan undermined the FTC’s bipartisan, independent mission through a relentless violation of legal, procedural, historical, and management norms WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) released a staff report today titled “The Federal Trade Commission Under Chair Lina Khan: Undue Biden-Harris White House Influence and Sweeping Destruction of Agency Norms.” The report finds that Federal Trade ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is launching an investigation into the Federal of Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) failure to report complete, accurate national crime data. In 2023, the FBI initially reported an estimated 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime in 2022 but later quietly revised the report to show a 4.5 percent increase––a staggering 6.2 percent change. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chairman ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) are advancing bipartisan oversight to tackle improper payments and fraud in federal government programs. In a letter to the Comptroller General at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Gene Dodaro, they request information on how federal agencies are identifying root causes of improper payments and implementing corrective actions and ...