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Seeks to Understand Disagreement on Expanding Medicaid
Washington, D.C. (July 29, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to six Republican governors seeking information to help explain why some support the expansion of healthcare services to their constituents under the Medicaid program and others oppose it.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a new letter from the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), the independent federal agency charged with investigating Hatch Act violations.
Washington, DC —Today, the House of Representatives passed legislation that includes critical provisions introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to reform the Net Price Calculator tool to provide prospective students with consistent and comparable price information for colleges and universities based on up-to-date data.
Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter strongly objecting to the Committee's plan to call Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen to testify on Wednesday for the third time over the past month.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Elijah E.
Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep.
Washington, DC—Today, Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, suddenly halted a hearing on the new White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach (OPSO) and its compliance with the Hatch Act.
WASHINGTON – Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released the following statements after U.S. House of Representatives passage of bipartisan measures reported out of the Committee, including bills to modify the savings program for federal workers contributing toward retirement, to improve whistleblower protections, to modernize the Federal Register, and to provide additional authority to District of Columbia Courts to make managerial and personnel decisions.
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 Chairman Issa insisting that his unilateral subpoena remains in effect for testimony tomorrow from David Simas, an Assistant to the President and the Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
Washington, DC —On Friday afternoon, Rep. Darrell E. Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, disregarded serious concerns raised in a detailed letter from the Committee's Ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, and issued two new unilateral subpoenas, bringing his total to 98 subpoenas since he became Chairman three and a half years ago.