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Washington, DC – Today, the Chairmen of the House Oversight, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees responded to a letter sent by the White House Counsel responding to the Committees' request for documents from and interviews with personnel of the Executive Office of the President related to communications between President Donald J. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation.
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 21, 2019)— Today, Rep. Elijah E.
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), and U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, today announced a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlining how political appointees at multiple federal agencies have failed to fully comply with internal ethics programs.
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 14, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a supplemental memo during a hearing with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Washington, D.C. – Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Chair Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt pressing him for information on recently announced changes to the Department of the Interior's (DOI) handling of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The letter, available at http://bit.ly/2UBvH3I, is also signed by Rep.
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 13, 2019)—The House of Representatives passed without opposition H.R. 1582, the Electronic Message Preservation Act, authored by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, to modernize how the federal government preserves email records.
Washington, D.C. (Mar.13, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to a letter from Michael Cohen's attorney explaining that Mr. Cohen's testimony regarding pardon discussions "could have been clearer regarding the time frames" and was intended to refer to the time period after he decided to leave the Trump Joint Defense Agreement:
Washington, D.C. (Mar.13, 2019)—At today's hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Reform on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Rachel Spector, the Acting Deputy Chief FOIA Officer at the Department of the Interior, admitted being aware of an issue with Acting Secretary David Bernhardt's calendar being deleted.
| Washington, D.C. (Mar. 13, 2019)—Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, held a hearing on "FOIA: Examining Transparency Under the Trump Administration." TAKEAWAYS |