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February 22, 2019

Today, the chairs of six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to Attorney General William Barr to inform him of their expectation that he will make Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report public "without delay and to the maximum extent permitted by law." The letter follows news reports that suggest the Special Counsel investigation is nearing an end.


February 22, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 22, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued a statement in response to the release of the Trump Administration's draft final rule to dismantle the Title X program—the nation's only federal grant program dedicated solely to family planning services:


February 20, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 20, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that the Committee has rescheduled its public hearing with President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building:


February 19, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 19, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued an interim staff report after multiple whistleblowers came forward to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S.


February 19, 2019

Today, House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a second request for information regarding an abandoned effort to replace the Department's Acting Inspector General, an independent watchdog tasked with investigating allegations of fraud, waste, and criminal wrongdoing within the agency.

Issues: Administration

February 15, 2019

Eight House Committee leaders sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings that were affected by the government shutdown earlier this year.


February 14, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 14, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Jackie Speier, the Chairwoman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, issued the following statement in response to a new report from the Department of Agriculture Inspector General identifying numerous failures by management in the Forest Service's Region 5:


February 14, 2019

Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today released a management alert from the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security.