Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) released the transcript from Dr. Francis Collins’s transcribed interview. Dr. Collins helped lead the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) until his resignation at the end of 2021. In conjunction with the transcript, the Select Subcommittee also released a new staff memo that highlights the key takeaways from Dr. Collins’s ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the Select Subcommittee’s recommendation to formally debar EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (EcoHealth). HHS will immediately commence official debarment proceedings and implement a government-wide suspension of U.S. taxpayer funds to EcoHealth — including a hold on all active ...

WASHINGTON – Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled “Red Alert: Countering the Cyberthreat from China.” In her opening statement, Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace highlighted how China’s cyberwarfare against the United States has matured and ...

WASHINGTON— House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) applauded today’s bipartisan passage of H.R. 7530, the D.C. Criminal Reform to Immediately Make Everyone Safer (D.C. CRIMES) Act, a bill sponsored by Oversight Committee member Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.):“The House Oversight Committee’s continued work in conducting oversight of the District of Columbia has resulted in today’s passage of a common-sense and urgently needed bill. ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a markup to consider a series of bills that address federal agency procurement of biotechnology equipment, safeguarding taxpayer dollars, improving federal cybersecurity, and more. “Today the Oversight Committee took important steps forward with several bills, many of them with bipartisan ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are furthering their investigation into the growing number of critical drug shortages impacting Americans’ medical care. In a letter to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram, the lawmakers request documents and communications related to DEA’s impact on and response to the prolonged ...

WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) are continuing to investigate the funding sources for the illegal, antisemitic encampments on college campuses. In a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the lawmakers are requesting all suspicious activity reports (SARs) connected to 20 organizations that are reported to be leading, financing, and ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer announced a markup to consider a resolution and accompanying report to recommend to the House of Representatives that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland be found in contempt of Congress for defying a lawful subpoena. The House Committees on Oversight and Accountability and Judiciary

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans are today conducting oversight of the Biden Administration’s lack of constitutional and statutory authority to enact the Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, E.O. 14019. In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, the lawmakers are requesting documents and communications related to the creation and implementation of Executive ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) will hold a classified hearing titled “Intruder Alert: Assessing the CCP’s Ongoing Infiltration of U.S. Military Installations.” The subcommittee hearing will explore the Biden Administration’s policy failures that have enabled the CCP ...