Press Releases

Cummings and Welch Launch Investigation of Drug Companies' Skyrocketing Prices for MS Drugs

Washington, D.C. (August 17, 2017)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a senior Democrat on both the Oversight Committee and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent letters to seven pharmaceutical companies requesting information about their pricing strategies for drugs used to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Oversight Dems Launch Investigation of

Taxpayer-Funded Expenditures to Trump Businesses

Washington, D.C. (August 8, 2017) – Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent letters to all Cabinet Secretaries and other federal agency heads requesting documents about how their Departments are spending federal taxpayer funds on products or services provided by businesses owned by or affiliated with the Trump Organization.

Cummings, Conyers, Connolly, Cicilline Request Documents about

President Trump's Regulatory Task Forces' Secret Meetings and Conflicts of Interest

Cummings Requests Information about General Flynn's Foreign Contacts

Flynn Friend and Former Business Partner Told Investigators

Flynn Would Have Work Related Foreign Contacts

Cummings, Lofgren Launch Investigation into
Reports Of CBP Illegally Turning Away Asylum Seekers

Members of Congress Ask White House Counsel for Information on Potential Ethics Violation by Top White House Ethics Official Stefan Passantino

Passantino May Have Failed to Recuse Himself from Carl Icahn Discussions

Text of the letter (PDF)

House Members Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Whistleblower Protections for Federal Contractors

Cummings Statement on First Meeting of President Trump's Commission on "Voter Integrity"

Washington, D.C. (July 19, 2017)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the first meeting of President Trump's "Voter Integrity" Commission: