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Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider five pieces of legislation, including several proposals enacting federal personnel reforms. The following actions were taken by the Committee: H.R. 1671, the Government ...

WASHINGTON—Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed seven bills designed to make the federal government more efficient and accountable to the American taxpayer.  Bills passed by suspension: H.R. 1777, Presidential Allowance Modernization Act (Rep. Chaffetz, R-UT; Rep. Cummings, D-MD); Amends and modernizes the Former ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued the following statement after release of the Department of Interior (DOI) Inspector General's (IG) report on misconduct at the Grand Canyon National Park’s (GRCA) River District. The report found evidence of a 15-year pattern of sexual harassment and hostile work ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider five pieces of legislation, including several proposals enacting federal personnel reforms. The following actions were taken by the Committee: HR. 1671, the

KEY REPORT FINDINGS: The Executive Branch culture encourages an unlawful presumption in favor of secrecy when responding to FOIA requests. The administration is unaware that FOIA is systemically broken.  Agencies create and follow FOIA policies that appear to be designed to deter requesters from ...

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE REPORT WASHINGTON – Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a staff report on its investigation into the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), concluding that the FOIA process is broken and in need of serious reforms. The report illustrates the complexity of the FOIA process that members of the media and ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1777, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act. This bipartisan legislation limits the pensions of former presidents, increases the pensions of surviving spouses, and limits the allowances provided for post-presidential expenditures. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who cosponsored the legislation, released the following ...

WASHINGTON— The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Oversight and Implementation Act of 2015 or FOIA Act, (H.R. 653), introduced by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), was approved today under suspension of the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation makes needed reforms to the FOIA process to provide ...