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WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence” by emphasizing the importance of listening to intelligence experts and following the facts. Chairman Wenstrup laid out the declassified intelligence available to Americans that continues to point to a lab leak as the likely source of the COVID-19 virus. He also described China’s ...

WASHINGTON—TheSubcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs today held a hearing titled “Oversight of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.” Subcommittee members discussed how unprecedented levels of illegal border crossings, incentivized by the ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held 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.” Subcommittee members discussed with ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after he and several lawmakers went to the U.S. Department of the Treasury to view financial records related to the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions: “Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates’ business schemes were made available to members of the House Committee on ...

WASHINGTON —House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is investigating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) failure to regulate cannabidiols (CBD) products as dietary supplements. In a letter to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the FDA, Dr. Robert M. Califf, Chairman Comer raises concern that the agency’s failure to regulate CBD products could allow dangerous products to come to market and is requesting documents and information to enable ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) is requesting the appearance of Dr. Susan Mayne, Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2015, for a transcribed interview to assist in an investigation of the FDA’s response to the 2022 infant formula shortage. “Former FDA officials have confirmed dysfunction at the FDA created and exacerbated a ...

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 ...