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April 3, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2025)—The Department of Defense (DoD) Acting Inspector General Stebbins has informed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the DoD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will be investigating Defense Secretary Hegseth’s use of Signal following calls from Ranking Member Gerald E. Connolly and the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Subcommittees

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:”
Subcommittees

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. 
Subcommittees

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. 

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.
Subcommittees

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.

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.
Subcommittees

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.
Subcommittees