Press Releases
Washington, DC— Today, the Ranking Members of the Committees on the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner strongly objecting to his decision to issue a partisan Republican staff report on Benghazi without any vetting for accuracy or consideration by Committee Members.
Washington, D.C. —Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) issued the following statements after the Senate failed to pass compromise amendments that would have expanded background checks and strengthened penalties for illegal gun trafficking:
Washington, DC -- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, have issued a 26-page staff memo detailing the preliminary results of the Committees' joint investigation into the role of the Department of Justice in urging the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, to withdraw its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in Magner v. Gallagher.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to the United States Postal Service's announcement that it will not cut mail delivery to five days per week:
Washington, DC (April 4, 2013) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on banking regulators' review of foreclosure abuses: