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Encourages President Biden to immediately sign resolution WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) applauded bipartisan Senate passage of a joint resolution (H. J. Res. 26) blocking the D.C. Council’s Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which would lower penalties for a number of violent criminal offenses, from going ...

WASHINGTON — Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened today’s subcommittee hearing by noting the importance of embracing practical applications of artificial intelligence while balancing the impacts AI may have on society. Chairwoman Mace highlighted the need to establish guidelines for AI development and use a clear legal framework to hold companies accountable for the consequences of their AI systems. ...

WASHINGTON – Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) opened today’s subcommittee hearing to examine how the Biden Administration’s decision to deplete the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to historic lows and attack on American-Made energy poses national security risks.

WASHINGTON—The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” to gather facts about the origination of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives globally. At the hearing, several of the witnesses pointed to how the science, facts, and evidence point to a lab leak in Wuhan. Key Hearing ...

WASHINGTON — The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing today titled “Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond.” Subcommittee members asked witnesses from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing titled “Burning the Midnight Oil: Why Depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is Not a Solution to America’s Energy Problem, Part 1.” At the hearing, ...

National Archives’ general counsel told the committee the agency was prevented from making a public statement    WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is calling on White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients to answer whether White House staff suppressed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from issuing a public statement regarding President Biden’s mishandling of classified ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is blasting the Department of Treasury for refusing to provide an official to testify at this week’s hearing on “The Biden Family Investigation: The Department of the Treasury.” Chairman Comer is now calling on Jonathan Davidson, Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, to appear for a transcribed interview on March 14 at 10:00am.  “Treasury Department officials have ...

Investigating DOD’s failure to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse after its failure to account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) are probing the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for its failure to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse after the department failed its fifth consecutive ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced a hearing to examine the Department of Treasury’s failure to provide the suspicious activity reports (SARs) generated by the Biden family and their associates' unusual foreign or high-dollar transactions. Chairman Comer wrote to Secretary Yellen on January 11, 2023, requesting access to these SARs, ...