June 2011
Read the Opening Statement of Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
Read the Report: "OUTGUNNED: Law Enforcement Agents Warn Congress They Lack Adequate Tools to Counter Illegal Firearms Trafficking".
Washington, DC – On Thursday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will convene a forum on the flow of illegal guns on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border.
Washington, DC – On Thursday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will convene a forum on the flow of illegal guns on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed "The Government Accountability Office Improvement Act," one of five reform bills included in H.R. 1144, which was introduced by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and all Committee Democrats in March.
The bill, which will strengthen the authority of GAO to access agency records, was added as an amendment to Chairman Issa's "Digital Accountability and Transparency Act," which passed the Committee without objection.
Witnesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citing constitutional and ethical concerns, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the senior Democrat of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat of the Education and the Workforce Committee, called on Chairman Darrell Issa today to delay his demand that National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) Acting General Counsel testify Friday on the agency's ongoing case against Boeing. The case is currently being argued before an administrative law judge.