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News Release: The Numbers in Biden’s Invasive Tax Gap Plan Don’t Add Up.


News Release: Brady: Poorly Designed COVID Unemployment Program Led to Greatest Theft of Tax Dollars in American History.


News Release: STUDY: GOP Governors Rejecting Dems’ Expanded UI Bonuses Is Key to Jobs Recovery.


News Release: Bidenflation Surge Fastest Gain in Prices Since 1991.


Census Bureau to Host Informational Webinar  in Advance of 2020 Census Redistricting Data Release

News Release: What: The Census Bureau will host a webinar ahead of the release of the 2020 Census P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data. Information in the webinar will include instructions on how to access redistricting data, information on improvements to the race and ethnicity questions design, processing, and coding;...


Justice Department Ignored Democrats’ Intention to Publicize Trump Tax Returns

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden Justice Department’s recent unprecedented ruling hands over President Trump’s private tax returns to a partisan witch hunt by Democrats in Congress that threatens to unleash a new political war threatening the privacy of all Americans’ tax returns.


NOAA, Census challenge innovators to build tools to tackle the climate crisis

News Release: As communities plan for the increasingly frequent and severe impacts from climate change, decision makers need relevant, usable data and information at their fingertips. However, it can be difficult to find and synthesize the data that fits their local needs from among the many federal agency datasets and resources.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement marking the 56th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicare and Medicaid into law...


Neal Statement on Developments in Tax Returns Case

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the Department of Justice’s position in the Committee’s ongoing lawsuit to access former President Donald Trump’s tax returns...


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released handwritten notes taken by then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard P. Donoghue of a Dec. 27, 2020, phone call with former President Donald J. Trump and former Acting Attorney General...


News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today wrote the National Conference of State Legislatures President Robin Vos regarding state legislatures implementing voter identification requirements.


Wyden Statement on DOJ Opinion on Ways and Means’ Trump Taxes Request

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Justice Department’s opinion on the Ways and Means Committee’s request for President Trump’s tax returns...


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a biannual hearing to assess implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and hear from the Federal Chief Information Officer about the Biden Administration’s...


Hearing Wrap Up: Republicans Debunk Democrats’ Big Lie About Voter ID

News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing about Texas Democrats’ superspreader stunt, in which Democratic Texas state legislators fled their duties for a Washington, D.C. vacation to avoid participating in the legislative process in the Texas legislature.


Comer & Jordan Call on Fauci & Andersen to Answer about Gain-of-Function Research at the Wuhan Lab

News Release: 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) called on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Kristian Andersen, ...


House Republicans Review Biden Administration's Harmful Energy Policies

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)led a forum titled "An Energy Crisis and Rising Gas Prices: A Mid-Year Review of the Biden Administration’s Energy Policy.".


Subcommittee Held Biannual Hearing on  Agency Compliance with FITARA and the Administration’s Federal IT Priorities

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a biannual hearing to assess implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and hear from the Federal Chief Information Officer about the Biden Administration’s...


News Release: The data collection methods for the 2020 Census and the American Community Survey (ACS) are different. The 2020 Census is a count of all people living in the United States. In contrast, the ACS is a sample survey which relies on data from a relatively small number of people to represent the larger population. And because the processes for producing these data are different, so is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the programs.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig demanding answers about continued leaks of personal financial information and any efforts to stop ProPublica from publishing additional articles containing taxpayer return information.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Volusia County, Florida, to prepare a 56-acre site adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport...