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Fauci’s comments from 2012 about gain-of-function research contradict sworn congressional testimony WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci to explain the discrepancy in his sworn congressional testimony about taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “House ...

Demand Biden Administration Answer for Unnecessary Extra Unemployment Benefits, Continued School Closures  WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wrote National Economic Council Director Brian Deese ...

Chastises Hearing Held to Promote Political Allies WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today's hearing purportedly about holding the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma accountable by criticizing Democrats for using it to promote Democrat donor Patrick Radden Keefe’s book about the family. Given the timing of the hearing, Democrats risk improperly influencing a court case to hold the Sackler family and Purdue ...

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Reform today held its second hearing on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma to review their role in the opioid epidemic. Republicans criticized Democrats for using another hearing for show rather than taking any action on the drug crisis at the southern border. Republicans were clear, if Democrats were serious about addressing the opioid epidemic, they would secure the border where fentanyl and other drugs are coming across in record ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representatives Fred Keller (R-Pa.), Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) released a video highlighting President Biden’s desire to reshape America through a radical, socialist agenda. The video, titled “Biden’s America,” highlights President Biden’s reckless spending leading to the highest inflation in over a decade, failed energy policies causing ...

Calls on Oversight Committee to Hold Hearings on Border, COVID-19 Origins, and More WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) opened today’s hearing on the dangers of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play—an infant recliner that was recalled in April 2019—and the failures of infant product safety by emphasizing the need for Fischer-Price and Mattel to answer for the deaths of infants due to their product, and any ...

Republican members outline enormous toll the crisis is having on taxpayer funds, federal agencies, and U.S. foster care system WASHINGTON—With billions in taxpayer funds reallocated, hundreds of volunteers deployed to the border, and the U.S. foster care system reaching a breaking point, the consequences of President Biden’s border crisis are intensifying. Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-Ky.) and Ways and Means Republican ...