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If the Administration fails to produce documents and information again, the Committee will consider the compulsory process. WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a final letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken requesting all documents and information related to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry’s role within the Biden Administration. John Kerry continues to ...

WASHINGTON — Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and all Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic are requesting the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China make five Chinese scientists available for in-person, transcribed interviews related to the origins of COVID-19. Earlier this month, the Chinese Embassy contacted Chairman Wenstrup’s staff expressing firm opposition and “grave concern” with the Select Subcommittee’s COVID-19 origins hearing and ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a hearing titled “The Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High-Risk List.” This full committee hearing will examine the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2023 High-Risk List. GAO issues a report at the start of each Congress to identify which programs are vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement and includes recommendations for agency and Congressional action. ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) will hold a hearing titled “China in Our Backyard: How Chinese Money Laundering Organizations Enrich the Cartels.” The subcommittee hearing will examine Chinese Money Laundering Organizations (MLOs) that engage in business with cartels to launder illicit funds raised through the deadly trafficking of narcotics such as fentanyl. Chinese MLOs also play a principal role in the production, ...

WASHINGTON—Following a data breach which impacted the personally identifiable information and protected health information of tens of thousands of individuals at the D.C. Health Exchange, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation and the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee held a joint hearing titled “Data Breach at the D.C. Health Exchange.” During the hearing, ...

WASHINGTON—To assist in the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s ongoing investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) response to the 2022 nationwide infant formula shortage, Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) has called upon Dr. Susan Mayne, Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the FDA, to appear before the Subcommittee. Today, Dr. Mayne agreed to testify at a public hearing on ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold 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 role Ms. Weingarten and the AFT may have played in editing the CDC’s COVID-19 school reopening guidance and keeping schools closed longer than necessary. At the Select Subcommittee’s first hearing on pandemic-era school ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled “The Biden Administration's Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General.” In his opening statement, Chairman Comer emphasized that the Biden Administration’s ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of House Joint Resolution 42, which would block the D.C. Council’s anti-police bill from taking effect. Washington, D.C. faces a crime crisis resulting from soft-on-crime policies and the D.C. Council continues to seek to enact radical policies that threaten public safety. Under House Republicans’ leadership, Congress successfully

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence” to explore declassified intelligence related to COVID-19 origins and examine China’s complicity in suppressing the origination of the global pandemic. Select Subcommittee members inquired about the misinformation spread by public health officials during the pandemic, the intelligence community’s understanding of ...