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By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2022
In response to a February 2022 inquiry from U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that a December 2021 memorandum from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) entitled “Policy on Using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Resources to Build a Better America” is a rule, and therefore subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022, which the House and Senate recently passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2022
Omnibus includes highest level for non-defense funding ever, lowers the cost of living for working families, creates better-paying jobs, and keeps our nation and communities safe; Provides critical funding to support Ukraine and relief to help communities recover from natural disasters
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2022
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this short-term continuing resolution through December 23rd.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 29, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (Dec. 28, 2022) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into a consent agreement with Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC and issued a final order to address certain waste management practices at the company’s facility in LaPlace, Louisiana.
By Press Release | Dec 29, 2022
Today, Representatives Jim Banks, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, Troy Nehls, Kelly Armstrong and House Administration Committee Ranking Member Rodney Davis released a report on their investigation into the security failure at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Debbie Dingell, issued the following statements after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its preliminary analysis of women’s representation in the workforce and the status of the gender pay gap between 2018 to 2021:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the House voted favorably 219 to 205 last night to pass S. 3905, the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine how the surge of anti-LGBTQI+ policies advanced in legislatures across the country and the proliferation of extreme anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric are fueling violence against LGBTQI+ people in the United States, including the mass shooting that took place at the LGBTQI+ nightclub, Club Q, in Colorado Springs last month.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing to examine the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by white supremacist ideologies, and how the federal government can confront domestic terrorist threats.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Ms. Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), in light of reports that additional classified records were recovered from former President Trump’s storage facility in Florida during a recent search and turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Chairman Raskin to Hold Hearing on the Threat to Democracy Posed by Anti-Democratic Extremist Groups
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Following Club Q Mass Shooting, Oversight Committee to Hear from Survivors at Hearing on Anti-LGBTQI+ Violence and Extremism
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, released a new memo and documents showing how the fossil fuel industry engages in “greenwashing” to obscure its massive long-term investments in fossil fuels and failure to meaningfully reduce emissions.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are pressing senior Biden Administration officials, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and several virologists who authored “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” for information necessary to the Oversight Committee’s investigation into COVID origins and, for the first time, outlined the names of 40 individuals with whom the Committee will be requesting transcribed interviews.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing that threats to our democracy and Constitution have been echoed so frequently that it has lost its impact and become a tool used to advance a political agenda.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ oil and gas report:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted Democrats’ final report and politicization of the Select Subcommittee to attack the Trump Administration rather than conduct impartial congressional oversight of the pandemic.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ Washington Commanders report:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to senior leadership at the White House, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Department of State (State), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Joint Chiefs of Staff renewing requests for all documents and communications related to the Biden Administration’s failed Afghanistan withdrawal.
