News from November 2022
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, sent notices to the Justice Department and FBI on Wednesday effectively previewing investigations into the agencies that the committee plans to conduct should Republicans take the majority.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC), and House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Tom Emmer (R-MN) recently sent a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler denouncing the Biden Administration’s inconsistency and hypocrisy of enforcing record-keeping laws, this time at the SEC.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Republican Ranking House Judiciary Committee Member Jim Jordan told Biden administration authorities Tuesday to show how their agencies are obeying the Supreme Court’s June West Virginia v. EPA decision limiting the EPA’s power to unilaterally regulate emissions.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding that the Biden administration preserve documents related to the ongoing crisis at the southern border — as Republicans lay the groundwork for investigations and hearings on the matter in the next Congress.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) urged the CEOs of Alphabet and YouTube to take new, aggressive actions to limit the spread of extreme and harmful incel content on their platforms.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement in response to a new Department of Justice (DOJ) report assessing DOJ’s response to sexual misconduct by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees:
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on a letter to 51 law firms detailing the possible antitrust violations the law firms’ clients may commit if they pursue Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra raising concerns about the federal government’s use of taxpayer funds to promote radical gender ideology and the medical transition of children using pharmaceutical or surgical interventions.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is raising concerns about the Biden Administration’s aluminum tariff policies and their impact on American consumers in the midst of historic inflation. In a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Ranking Member Comer requests a briefing on the Department’s current assessment of aluminum tariffs, enforcement of exemptions, and inflation.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting all documents and communications related to the Department’s creation of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE).
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
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 over the Biden Administration’s unprecedented and deliberate attempt to obstruct the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) investigation into the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
As part of the investigation into the Biden family’s suspicious business dealings, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide information about a Biden family associate closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), JiaQi Bao.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) are pressing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about drug cartels exploiting President Biden’s border crisis to target American children by trafficking “rainbow fentanyl” into the United States.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a report outlining how the Biden Administration and Oversight Committee Democrats have demonized domestic oil and gas production, promoted anti-American energy policies, and failed to produce a comprehensive plan to address high energy prices and ongoing marketplace shortages impacting the American people.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) sent a letter to John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), requesting all documents, communications, and information related to the Biden Administration’s ongoing obstruction of the investigation into the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) are expressing serious concerns over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to ignore top scientists at the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) and ban a commonly used insecticide that protects America’s food supply. In letters to USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack and EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the top Republican lawmakers emphasize that the EPA’s unilateral decision to ban the critical crop protection tool raises serious questions about the agency’s commitment to using the best available science.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. Dmytro and I were just saying that we manage to meet pretty much everywhere around the world - in Kyiv most aptly, in Europe, now here in Asia, in New York. And we’re meeting today at a time when Ukraine has just liberated the city of Kherson and the ...
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2022
Release: Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Richard Duke and high-level partners from the United States, European Commission, Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands announced a total of $135 million in new funding for fertilizer efficiency and soil health programs to combat fertilizer shortages and food insecurity.
By Press release submission | Nov 13, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans reiterated concerns over reports indicating the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to operate a taxpayer-funded censorship campaign to target online speech and discredit legitimate criticism of the Biden Administration. I
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2022
There were seven notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Nov. 5, according to the Federal Register.
