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July 2018

July 5, 2018

Cummings Issues Statement on EPA Administrator Pruitt's Resignation

Washington, D.C. (July 5, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on the resignation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt:


July 5, 2018

Washington, D.C. (July 5, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released new excerpts from transcribed interviews that were conducted by Republican and Democratic Committee staff with top aides to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.


July 2, 2018

Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier and Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Elijah E. Cummings sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to produce documents it is withholding related to an internal 2006 report that Purdue Pharma knew of significant abuses of its drug OxyContin shortly after it was brought to market in 1996.


July 2, 2018

Washington, D.C. (July 2, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), and former Reps. William "Bill" Clay Sr. (D-MO) and Jim Leach (R-IA), filed an amicus brief in the case of AFGE, AFL-CIO et al. v.