Press Releases

Washington, DC - The continued attack on American workers and public employee pensions in statehouses and now on Capitol Hill suffered a huge blow at today's Committee hearing on state and municipal debt.

Committee Democrats presented a barrage of evidence that refuted the Republican claims that middle-class American workers are to blame for fiscal woes, and forced the majority's witness, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, to admit under oath that his campaign to dismantle workers' rights did nothing to improve the state's budget situation.

Washington, DC – Today, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee invite Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin to testify at tomorrow's hearing entitled "State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead."

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to John Walsh, Acting Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) yesterday. The letter called on Walsh to consider postponing action to finalize a consent agreement with mortgage servicers, and demanded greater transparency from the OCC regarding the agreement, including a briefing for Congress on the foreclosure abuses the agency found in its investigation.

Witnesses

Washington, DC –Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, House Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today strongly objecting to a unilateral subpoena he issued to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' operation related to gun trafficking into Mexico.

Documents for the March 31st Full Committee Hearing: "Why isn't the DHS meeting the President's Standard on FOIA"

Democratic Committee Briefing Memo

(Washington, D.C.) – Only weeks after cutting billions in education funding, House Republicans have scheduled a vote today on legislation (H.R. 471) that would increase the federal deficit by reestablishing the failed District of Columbia voucher program.

(Washington, DC)—Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (MD-07), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was joined by all Democratic Members of the Committee in introducing H.R. 1144, the "Transparency and Openness in Government Act" to strengthen the nation's core open government laws.