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Chairman Comer, Senator Cruz Team Up Seeking Answers on Coordinated Efforts to Ban Gas Stoves

WASHINGTON—In an effort to reveal the details of a hidden pressure campaign run by environmental activists and the Biden administration to ban gas stoves, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have sent bicameral letters to Consumer Reports, the Climate Imperative Foundation, and Stacey Abrams’ Rewiring America group. Sen. Cruz and Rep. Comer wrote to these ...

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Comer Opens Probe into National Labor Relations Board Inspector General’s Efforts to Obstruct Congressional Oversight

Follows NLRB IG opening an investigation into lawful subpoena by Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Foxx WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) opened a probe into the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Office of Inspector General (OIG) over its efforts to undermine a legitimate congressional inquiry by investigating a subpoena issued by Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx ...

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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Testifies to Uncommon Influence Over CDC School Reopening Guidance

Considering information presented at the hearing, the Select Subcommittee’s investigation must go on. The Select Subcommittee has outstanding requests for transcribed interviews and expects ongoing cooperation from Ms. Weingarten and AFT. WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “The Consequences of School Closures, Part 2: The President of the American Federation of Teachers, Ms. Randi Weingarten” to delve into any ...

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Comer, McClain Open Investigation into SF Fed’s Role in Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today opened an investigation into the role the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (SF Fed) and other state and federal regulators played in the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse. In a letter to the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the lawmakers are requesting documents and ...

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Chairman Comer, Senator Johnson Renew Request for CMS to Review Improper Payment Rate

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure renewing their request for information on what safeguards CMS has in place to address improper payments in the Medicaid program. “We write to continue our investigation into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the staggering rate ...

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McClain: China Playing Major Role in Enriching Cartels, Funding Deadly Fentanyl Epidemic

WASHINGTON — Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) opened today’s subcommittee hearing on “China in Our Backyard: How Chinese Money Laundering Organizations Enrich the Cartels” by outlining how cartels have partnered with Chinese Money Laundering Organizations to make more money and traffic deadly fentanyl ...

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Comer: We Must Safeguard Taxpayer Dollars and Combat Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled “The Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List.” In his opening statement, Chairman Comer emphasized that the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2023 High Risk List will assist the committee’s efforts to combat waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and safeguard taxpayer ...

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Comer & McClain Continue Probe of Rampant Fraud in California’s Unemployment Insurance System

WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are continuing their investigation into the state of California’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) System which has been plagued by rampant waste, fraud, and abuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars. In the letter, which follows

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Hearing Wrap Up: Congress Must Utilize GAO’s High Risk List to Effectively Combat Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

GAO finds federal programs are bloated and vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “The Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List.” At the hearing, members emphasized that federal government programs created and funded by Congress must fulfil their intended purpose and meet mission objectives. However, massive programs have struggled to fulfill ...

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Wenstrup: Americans Deserve to Know if the American Federation of Teachers Role in Editing CDC School Reopening Guidance was More Political than Scientific

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing “The Consequences of School Closures, Part 2: The President of the American Federation of Teachers, Ms. Randi Weingarten” by emphasizing the importance of investigating school closure decisions — specifically the role the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) played in developing and influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ...