Congress

Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2025)— Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch and Rep. Steny Hoyer, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, hosted a roundtable with major federal employee groups and civil service organizations to coordinate action against the Republican Budget’s House Oversight Reconciliation provisions that steal earned wages, benefits, and retirement security from federal workers to subsidize tax giveaways to billionaires.  Republicans’ budget includes provisions to steal earned retirement benefits, decrease the take home pay of existing and new federal employees, claw back already-promised retirement payments, and force new federal employees to choose between being subject to President Trump’s political purges of the federal workforce or receiving a smaller paycheck for their entire career.

Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2025)—After Chairman Higgins and Oversight Republicans declined to hold a hearing under normal Committee procedure, refused to honor the Minority’s right to invite their own witness, and rejected the Minority’s demand for equal participation in Subcommittee events, Rep. Summer L. Lee, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, led Subcommittee Democrats in refusing to attend Republicans’ one-sided roundtable.

Washington, D.C. (May 6, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Chairman James Comer and Committee Republicans announced a second hearing on the Trump Administration’s extremist and cruel immigration agenda:

Washington, D.C. (April 17, 2025)—Today, Reps. Gerald E. Connolly, Joe Morelle, and Jamie Raskin, the top Democrats on the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Judiciary, respectively, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting confirmation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will zealously represent the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a Legislative Branch agency—in a lawsuit filed by America First Legal Foundation which preposterously alleges that GAO is part of the Executive Branch.

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:”

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.