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August 2018

August 16, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 16, 2018) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly requesting a briefing and documents on the decision to revoke former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance.


August 15, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 14, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett from the U.S.

Issues: Administration

August 14, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 14, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, issued statements on a new report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General on non-disclosure forms and settlement agreements.


August 14, 2018

Washington, D.C. (Aug. 14, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E.

Issues: Administration

August 14, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 14, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the dismissal of a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administration for withholding documents that Oversight Committee Members have been seeking for more than a year relating to the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.:


August 9, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 9, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep.


August 2, 2018

Washington, D.C. (August 2, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services on their failure to comply with a bipartisan request from Cummings and Rep.


August 2, 2018

Washington, D.C.—Today, Vice Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), along with all Democratic Members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting a hearing with Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to investigate the misleading testimony he and other Trump Administration officials provided to Congress regarding the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.


August 1, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) requested an investigation of expenses incurred by the Secret Service and the State Department during President Donald Trump's recent trip to the Trump Turnberry, a luxury golf resort in Scotland that the President owns.