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WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into the Biden Administration purchasing $1.3 billion worth of COVID-19 testing kits manufactured in China. Republicans are also conducting oversight of the Administration’s plans to bolster domestic production on infectious disease testing. In a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary ...

Seek to understand what controls are in place to prevent waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan over the FTC’s use of unpaid consultants and experts. An investigation by the FTC Inspector General (OIG) recently found that the FTC lacked adequate controls to ensure ...

WASHINGTON—House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted Democrats’ politicization of the Select Subcommittee to attack the Trump Administration rather than conduct impartial congressional oversight of the pandemic. Since the panel’s inception, Democrats refused to investigate the origins of COVID-19; President Biden’s politically motivated decision-making; the Biden Administration’s failure to purchase ...

Request briefing from DoD and FCC on what efforts are underway to remove Huawei infrastructure from U.S. cellular network WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are raising concerns that Huawei infrastructure has yet to be removed from the U.S. cellular network despite its threat to national security. In letters to Department of Defense ...

Request an immediate briefing following information indicating USCG denied virtually all religious exemption requests  WASHINGTON – Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), expressing serious concerns over USCG’s apparent failure to provide due process to members ...