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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 ...