Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) has joined forces with all Majority Members to shed light on coercive and potentially harmful COVID-19 policies that are reemerging at the University of Maryland. Under the University’s new directive, Maryland students who test positive for COVID-19 are to be immediately removed from their dorms and forced into isolation, either at a nearby hotel or by boarding a flight home — presumably at ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) announced a hearing titled “Oversight of Federal Agencies’ Post-Pandemic Telework Policies: Part II” to continue the subcommittee’s review of telework policies at federal agencies, including how agencies intend to comply with the Biden Administration and ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) announced a new subpoena for National Institutes of Health (NIH) records related to allegations that a top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. David Morens, deleted COVID-19 origins documents and used his personal email to thwart the Freedom of Information Act. The subpoena follows months of stonewalling by the NIH and a recent, lackluster production of documents that did not satisfy the ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity Standards: Protecting Against Future Pandemics” to evaluate the effectiveness of existing biosafety and biosecurity practices in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss future policy improvements. Current standards for high-risk laboratories in the U.S. and abroad are confusing, overlapping, and often require ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is today furthering an investigation into the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) and the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) role in protecting American companies and serving U.S. economic interests in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) negotiations. In a letter to USTR Ambassador Katherine Tai, Chairman Comer raises concerns that the USTR has failed to transparently ...

Threatens the compulsory process after the SEC fails to produce requested information WASHNGTON – In a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is threatening to subpoena information about the SEC’s efforts to advance a progressive European climate and social agenda on American companies. For four months, the SEC has failed to respond to previous requests ...

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 continuing oversight of the Biden Administration’s failed Iran policy and are raising concerns about the Administration’s use of officials with sympathetic ties to the Iranian regime to negotiate with Iran. In a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken, the lawmakers ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on White House Counsel Edward Siskel to provide documents and communications related to the discovery of classified documents at Penn Biden Center and is requesting transcribed interviews with five current and former White House officials who were involved with organizing, moving, and removing boxes that contained classified materials. The House Oversight Committee has obtained ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) are threatening to subpoena former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after he unfortunately failed to produce any documents or communications related to his state’s deadly COVID-19 nursing home policies. During the height of the pandemic, former Governor Cuomo made the medically misguided decision to mandate that nursing homes and long-term care ...

Letter to DoD and FBI Demand Staff Briefing by October 16 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 investigating recent reports of Chinese foreign nationals breaching and accessing secure U.S. military bases and facilities. In a letter to the heads of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Federal Bureau of ...