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Washington, D.C. (April 29 2025)—Below is Ranking Member Shontel Brown’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation hearing on modernizing federal IT systems.  

Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2025)— Below is Ranking Member Suhas Subramanyam’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs hearing on unauthorized drone activity over U.S. military installations.

Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Steven Stebbins, Acting Inspector General at the Department of Defense (DoD), and Tamara A. Johnson, Principal Deputy Inspector General at the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, underscoring the need for an immediate investigation into the Pentagon’s and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s irresponsible and continued use of insecure platforms and personal devices to share sensitive attack plans, and his disclosure of extremely sensitive national security secrets to persons unauthorized to receive such information.

Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to former Department of Defense (DoD) Senior Advisor Dan Caldwell, DoD Secretary Hegseth’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, former Chief of Staff to the Deputy Defense Secretary Colin Carroll, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Joe Kasper, and former chief Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot requesting transcribed interviews as part of the Committee’s investigation into reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed highly sensitive, likely classified plans for a military operation in Yemen on the Signal messaging application and on his personal device.