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April 3, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2025)— Yesterday, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Joe Morelle, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, issued this joint statement following House Republicans’ distraction attempt cloaked as a so-called “report:”
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April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard requesting documents and information regarding the Trump Administration officials’ violation of federal law by failing to preserve the communications exchanged in the now-infamous March 15, 2025, Signal chat that included likely classified national security information.
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April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2025)— Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Military and Foreign Affairs, led Subcommittee Democrats in rebuking the Trump Administration’s use of an insecure phone app and personal Gmail accounts to share likely classified and highly sensitive information.
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April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek calling on him to immediately resign and to come before the Committee for a transcribed interview.
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April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)— Below is Ranking Member Robert Garcia’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the Trump Administration’s botched rollout of documents that exposed the identities and even social security numbers of those involved in investigating the assassination of JFK.
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April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)—Today, Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee Committee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, led Committee Democrats in introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to investigate DOGE’s unsanctioned use of government data and artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on American privacy and national security.
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April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to non-principal agency officials involved in the unsecured Signal group chat in which senior Trump Administration officials discussed highly sensitive, likely classified plans for a military operation in Yemen using unapproved and unlawful communication methods, unknowingly included The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg in those discussions, and endangered the lives of American servicemembers involved in the operation.
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March 31, 2025
Washington, D.C. (March 31, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to Amber F. McReynolds, Chair of the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors (the Governors), escalating Congress’s concerns that DOGE is attempting to actively undermine the stability and integrity of the Postal Service.
March 28, 2025
Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to illegally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fire all USAID employees, and absorb the agency into the State Department.
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March 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Department of Defense Acting Inspector General Steven Stebbins; Department of State Acting Inspector General Sandra J. Lewis; Department of the Treasury Deputy Inspector General Loren Sciurba; Central Intelligence Agency Acting Inspector General Robert Host; and Counsel to the President David Warrington requesting a full and immediate investigation following two reports published in The Atlantic this week that revealed several members of the National Security Council and the White House Cabinet discussed classified plans for a military operation in Yemen in a group chat on the Signal messaging application that included The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.
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