Press Releases

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) newly released memorandum that contains vague guidance on getting the federal workforce back to the workplace and subsequent staff briefing with the agency: “House Republicans have pressured the Biden Administration to address the ...

Highlights Republicans’ accomplishments in the first 100 days of the majority WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today released the committee’s accomplishments for the first 100 days of the Republican majority: “Under Republican leadership, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has returned to its mission of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government and is holding ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is requesting U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro initiate a review of the high number of improper payments in the Medicaid program. Chairman Comer is also requesting GAO review actions the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) can take to coordinate with state auditors and improve Medicaid program integrity. “We are writing to request ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a hearing titled “The Biden Administration's Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General.” This full committee hearing will examine the work completed by the IG community regarding the Biden Administration’s failed Afghanistan withdrawal, and the factors that led to the collapse of the Afghan government. Since the botched withdrawal, the Biden ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Committee on House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) today announced an upcoming hearing titled “Data Breach at the D.C. Health Exchange.” Last month, a D.C. Health Link data breach enabled hackers to post online confidential, personally identifiable information, ...

Request all documents and communications to assist the Committee’s oversight of HHS’s administration of COVID-19 relief funds WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representative Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) launched an investigation following reports indicating the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) misallocated COVID-19 relief funds intended to help low-income hospitals. In a letter to HHS ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) will hold a hearing titled “Spending on Empty: How the Biden Administration’s Unprecedented Spending Increased Risk of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the Department of Energy.” This hearing will examine the Department of Energy’s (DOE) capability to safeguard taxpayer dollars at high risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in light of historic, unprecedented spending being funneled ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) today announced an upcoming hearing titled “Oversight of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.” This hearing will examine how the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) actions contributed to unaccompanied alien children (UAC) being placed into unsafe situations with poorly vetted ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence” to examine China’s complicity in the origination of COVID-19 and explore the intelligence surrounding COVID-19 origins. At the Select Subcommittee’s first hearing on COVID-19 origins in March, expert witnesses revealed new evidence that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak ...

WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) are continuing their probe into the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed regulatory actions that will increase the cost of energy for Americans and deputize climate activists to monitor energy production sites. In a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Reagan, the Republican lawmakers ...