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Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to reports that Committee Chairman Darrell Issa rushed to release sensitive documents before Monday's presidential debate that included information that may have endangered the lives of Libyans working with the United States and compromised the FBI investigation of those who attacked the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi.
Washington, D.C – With less than 17 days until Election Day, three top Democratic Members responsible for elections and civil rights sent a second letter to Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus calling on him to make clear the nature of the RNC's associations with Nathan Sproul, a long-time Republican operative who has been dogged by accusations of voter registration fraud dating back at least to
Washington DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, responded to a letter Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent to President Obama in which he makes serious allegations relating to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a new letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, President and Founder of True the Vote, requesting documents relating to the group's plan to deploy hundreds of thousands of personnel across the country on Election Day to challenge access to the polls for people they believe should not be allowed to vote.
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today to refuse to stop Ohioans from voting early during the three days leading up to Election Day:
In an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" today, Ranking Member Elijah Cummings called on House Republicans to join him in passing a supplemental appropriations bill to replenish the State Department's embassy security accounts, which House Republicans voted to slash by nearly half a billion dollars over the last two fiscal years.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to a letter from an attorney for Nathan Sproul stating that he will not cooperate with a congressional investigation into voter fraud allegations against his company, Strategic Allied Consulting.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letterto Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, House Speaker John Boehner, and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi raising serious concerns about the way classified and sensitive information was handled at yesterday's highly partisan hearing on the attack in Benghazi.
At today's Oversight Committee hearing on the attacks in Libya, Ranking Member Cummings asked Chairman Issa to join him in calling on House leaders to immediately consider a supplemental funding bill to restore embassy security funding that was cut by the House over the past two fiscal years.
State Department Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom admitted at today's Oversight Committee hearing that there were, in fact,five Diplomatic Security agents in Benghazi on the day of the attack, contrary to earlier reports.
In addition, despite Nordstrom's earlier statements to the Committee that his July cable requested five agents, a copy of the cable obtained by the Committee shows that the cable actually requested only four agents, with a minimum of three. The text of the cable reads: