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House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40) released the following statement on Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s call for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign and threat to impeach him:


Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the Comptroller General requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study to evaluate efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to identify and assist water and wastewater utilities that are vulnerable to shutdown from natural and other disasters, such as terrorist attacks and chemical and industrial accidents.


Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried and current Chief Executive Officer of FTX John R. Ray III, pressing for more information on FTX’s collapse and bankruptcy filing and the full scope of harm inflicted upon its investors.


Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Committee voted favorably to approve her bill, the Vote by Mail Tracking Act in a strong bipartisan vote:


Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, released new evidence that state and federal contractor ID.me inaccurately overstated its capacity to conduct identity verification services to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and made baseless claims about the amount of federal funds lost to pandemic fraud in an apparent attempt to increase demand for its identity verification services.


House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee on Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) are raising concerns TikTok provided misleading or false information to the committees about its data sharing and privacy practices with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).


Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to senior leadership at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) renewing requests for information about the Biden Administration’s policies that have fueled the ongoing border and fentanyl crises and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.


House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today renewed several requests for information about the Biden family’s influence peddling and suspicious business transactions


oday, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican lawmakers held a press conference revealing evidence of President Biden’s involvement in his family business schemes and several federal crimes that may have been committed by members of the President’s family.


oday we mourn the tragic and senseless loss of life in Chesapeake, Virginia. We are sending strength to the families and loved ones of those affected.


This week, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John K. Tien was in the United Kingdom and Germany for a range of bilateral and multilateral engagements with key European partners to advance homeland security objectives.


We, the Interior and Security Ministers of the G7, together with the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, met from 16 to 18 November 2022 at Kloster Eberbach in Wiesbaden, chaired by Nancy Faeser, Federal Minister of the Interior and Community of the Federal Republic of Germany.


Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas congratulated the 29 members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce who were recognized for their exceptional performance and awarded the 2022 Presidential Rank Award (PRA).


After a year of breaking all the wrong records at the Southwest border, the Biden administration is already on track to surpass its own records this fiscal year.


Rep. John Katko (R-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement on the ambush on CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents by drug smugglers in Puerto Rico yesterday.


U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing the results of his investigation into the rise of domestic terrorism, including white supremacist and anti-government violence.


U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a hearing with top national security and counterterrorism officials to examine evolving and persistent threats to homeland security


Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about yesterday’s alert from CISA and the FBI which stated that Iranian government-sponsored hackers had compromised federal agencies.


Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, outlined the threats to our nation at a hearing titled: “Threats to the Homeland.”


oday, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the ongoing crisis at the southern border at a hearing titled: “Threats to the Homeland.” Senator Portman pressed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to acknowledge that the Biden administration is responsible for the crisis at the southern border due their failed policies which have resulted in the highest level on record of unlawful migrants, unaccompanied children, and deadly narcotics like fentanyl coming into our country.