Press Releases

Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee hold a bipartisan hearing to examine a recent data security breach that may have compromised the personally identifiable information of American consumers who shopped at Home Depot throughout the year.

Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee hold a bipartisan hearing to investigate the causes and effects of a data security breach at Community Health Systems Inc., the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain.

Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting a briefing to address serious concerns that some nursing home facilities are gaming CMS's current "five-star" rating system to mislead consumers about the quality of care they provide.

Washington, DC (Aug. 7, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) release of their guidelines for the "phased retirement" program for federal workers:

Seeks to Understand Disagreement on Expanding Medicaid

Washington, D.C. (July 29, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to six Republican governors seeking information to help explain why some support the expansion of healthcare services to their constituents under the Medicaid program and others oppose it.

Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a new letter from the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), the independent federal agency charged with investigating Hatch Act violations.

Washington, DC —Today, the House of Representatives passed legislation that includes critical provisions introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to reform the Net Price Calculator tool to provide prospective students with consistent and comparable price information for colleges and universities based on up-to-date data.

Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter strongly objecting to the Committee's plan to call Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen to testify on Wednesday for the third time over the past month.