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April 9, 2014

Case from 1954 Shows Striking Similarities Between Darrell Issa and Joe McCarthy


April 3, 2014

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today introduced legislation that would improve coordination between federal agencies that oversee the for-profit college industry. Through the establishment of an interagency oversight committee, the Proprietary Education Oversight Coordination Improvement Act - which will be introduced in the House of Representatives by U.S.


April 3, 2014

Washington, D.C. (Apr. 3, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to an announcement from Chairman Darrell Issa that the Committee will vote next week to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress:


April 1, 2014

Company Reportedly Barred Employees from Reporting Wrongdoing


March 27, 2014
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 27, 2014)—Yesterday, all 17 Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter calling on the Committee's Chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, to end his partisan investigation of the attacks in Benghazi and begin focusing instead on conducting responsible oversight in order to implement constructive reforms to protect our diplomatic corps overseas.

March 27, 2014

Washington, D.C. (Mar. 27, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census, and Rep. Gerald E.


March 26, 2014

Experts Include Two Former House Counsels and Three Former Supreme Court Clerks


March 26, 2014

Reps. Moran, Cummings, Tierney, Cartwright, Lujan-Grisham Original Cosponsors

WASHINGTON - Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), joined by Congressmen Jim Moran (D-VA), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), John Tierney (D-MA) and other House members, today introduced legislation in the House to provide a 3.3 percent pay raise to federal workers. The Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act would provide the pay hike to all federal employees in calendar year 2015.


March 16, 2014

Washington, D.C. (March 17, 2014)—Following the issuance by the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Inspector General of a report finding that the DOJ has not prioritized the investigation of mortgage fraud and has reported unreliable and inflated statistics regarding the scope of its prosecutorial efforts, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep.