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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. – On February 22, the chairs of six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr to inform him of their expectation that he will make Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report public "without delay." |
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 21, 2019)— Today, Rep. Elijah E.
Washington, DC (Mar. 21, 2019)— Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep.
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)—This week, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on Government Operations held a joint hearing on "The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act (H.R. 1076)."
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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. (Mar.14, 2019)—Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, held a full committee hearing to discuss the ongoing preparations for the 2020 Census and the addition of the citizenship question with testimony from Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr.
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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.