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March 12, 2015

Chaffetz, Cummings Issue Joint Statement on Late-Night Car Incident Involving Secret Service Agents

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-07) released the following statement today after news broke that two U.S.


March 10, 2015

Oversight Committees' Leadership Highlights GAO Report on 2020 Census

WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in highlighting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the Census Bureau's preparations for and readiness to deliver an internet response option for the 2020 Decennial Census.

Issues: Census

March 4, 2015

House Dems Call for Examination of Voting Equipment Technology

Washington, D.C.—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Reps.


March 2, 2015

Sanders and Cummings Request Information on Price Increases for Drug that Police Use to Treat Overdoses

Reports Indicate Drug Spiking by 50 Percent or More

Washington, D.C.


February 25, 2015

Conyers-Cummings-Lowey-Serrano Issue Statement Supporting D.C.'s Legal Interpretation of Initiative 71

Washington, D.C.—Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E.

Issues: DC

February 24, 2015

Leading Economists Warn About Challenges Facing Middle Class

Warren and Cummings Host First Forum For New "Middle Class Prosperity Project"

WASHINGTON, D.C.—To launch their new Middle Class Prosperity Project, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E.


February 23, 2015

TUESDAY: Cummings and Warren Launch "Middle Class Prosperity Project"

Will Host First Forum on Economic Policies that Imperil the Middle Class

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E.


February 20, 2015

WARREN AND CUMMINGS REQUEST INFORMATION ABOUT CFTC COMMISSIONER'S POSSIBLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 20, 2015) - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).


February 18, 2015

Cummings Reacts to Joseph Clancy Appointment as Head of Secret Service

Washington, DC (Feb. 18, 2015) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the appointment of Joseph P. Clancy as the Director of the United States Secret Service:


February 11, 2015

Cummings Introduces Legislation to

Improve Student Access to Federal Financial Aid

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 11, 2015)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced H.R.

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