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Hearing Wrap Up: Waste and Mismanagement at OPM is Reducing Services and Raising Costs for Taxpayers

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “Oversight of Our Nation’s Largest Employer: Reviewing the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.”At the heaWASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “
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Burning the Midnight Oil: Why Depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is Not a Solution to America’s Energy Problem, Part I
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Advances in AI: Are We Ready For a Tech Revolution?
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Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond
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Investigating the Origins of COVID-19
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What They’re Saying: Support for Bill to Protect Speech from Government Censorship

WASHINGTON – To protect Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech from government censorship, Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has introduced the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act (H.R. 140) with cosponsors Chairs Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash). The bill prohibits federal employees from pressuring social media companies to silence, censor, or remove Americans expressing views online. “The Biden ...
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Wenstrup: Knowing the Origin of COVID-19 is Fundamental to Helping Predict and Prevent Future Pandemics

WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” by emphasizing how knowing the origin of the virus is essential to helping predict and prevent future pandemics, protecting health and national security, and preparing the United States for the future. He outlined how the Select Subcommittee will follow the facts, conduct a fair investigation, and seek to deliver the truth to ...
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Grothman: Force Multipliers Critical to Disrupting Criminal Organizations & Protecting Our Border

WASHINGTON — Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened today’s subcommittee hearing by stressing the critical role force multipliers like canines and enhanced technology play in assisting U.S. Customs and Border Protection in stopping criminal activity at the U.S. southern border. Subcommittee Chairman Grothman highlighted how CBP seized enough fentanyl in FY 2022 to kill over three billion people and emphasized the ...
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Comer: We Must Protect Americans from Censorship

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of his bill, Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act (H.R. 140). The bill prohibits federal employees from pressuring social media companies to silence, censor, or remove Americans expressing views online.
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Comer Applauds Senate Passage of Resolution Blocking D.C. Council’s Pro-Criminal Law

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 ...