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June 9, 2013

Washington D.C. —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa with new information about the Committee's six-hour transcribed interview with a self-identified "conservative Republican" manager who led a team of IRS screeners in Cincinnati as they reviewed applications by Tea Party groups for tax exempt status.


June 6, 2013
Opening Statement
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member
Hearing on "Collected and Wasted:
The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses"
June 6, 2013
Thank you, Mr.

June 6, 2013
Washington, DCToday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that he honor his commitment to hold a public hearing with Ambassador Thomas Pickering and other members of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) within the next two weeks now that Pickering has complied with Issa's subpoena and answered questions at a closed-door deposition.

June 4, 2013

Washington, DC (June 4, 2013) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Committee's closed-door deposition of Ambassador Pickering regarding the Accountability Review Board's review of the attacks in Benghazi:


June 2, 2013

Washington, DC –Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding Chairman Issa's claim on national television this morning that interviews with workers in the IRS Cincinnati office show targeting of conservative groups was a problem that was coordinated out of Washington headquarters:


May 23, 2013

Washington, DC— Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, introduced H.R.


May 22, 2013

Below is Ranking Member Cummings' opening statement, as prepared for delivery, for today's Full Committee hearing on the IRS.

Opening Statement
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member
Hearing on "The IRS: Targeting Americans for Their Political Beliefs"

May 22, 2013


May 21, 2013

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve the quality and utility of federal spending information. The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) establishes governmentwide financial data standards and improves the management and completeness of USASpending.gov, a transparency portal created in 2006 by legislation sponsored by Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and then-Senator

Issues: Federal Budget

May 17, 2013

Washington D.C.—This week, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced legislation to address "gray market" drug companies that are taking advantage of the national drug shortage crisis to charge exorbitant prices for drugs used to treat cancer and other life-threatening conditions.