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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.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Twitter employees who were responsible for censoring the New York Post’s reporting about the Biden family’s influence peddling to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) to help identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest between...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: M. Speaker, we are here today to affirm that in America, we are a nation of equal citizens, and no person is above the law, not even a president.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Department of Veterans Affairs...
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released a statement in response to the Biden administration’s decision to amend U.S. sanctions to reduce safeguards on humanitarian aid.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), a bipartisan bill to increase transparency around social media companies.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA)...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report examining the laws governing synthetic opioid interdiction, the synthetic opioid precursor supply chain from China to Mexico, and the finished-product...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on bipartisan House passage of the Don Young Recognition Act (S. 5066 ; Murkowski) and expected bipartisan House passage of five other Natural Resources tribal bills under suspension of the rules. Having already passed the Senate, all six bills will soon advance to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (Commission) report, U.S.-Haiti Trade: Impact of U.S. Preference Programs on Haiti’s Economy and Workers. Earlier this year, Chairman Neal requested...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, outgoing Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was elected to continue his tenure as top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee in the position of ranking member in the 118th Congress. Prior to becoming chair when Democrats won the House majority in 2018, Chair Grijalva had served as ranking member since 2014 and had been a member of the Committee since coming to Congress in 2003.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to President Biden to congratulate the Administration on hosting a successful U.S. Africa Leaders Summit and to urge swift mobilization of resources necessary to support implementation of Summit commitments.
