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April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek calling on him to immediately resign and to come before the Committee for a transcribed interview.
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April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)— Below is Ranking Member Robert Garcia’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the Trump Administration’s botched rollout of documents that exposed the identities and even social security numbers of those involved in investigating the assassination of JFK.

April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)—Today, Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee Committee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, led Committee Democrats in introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to investigate DOGE’s unsanctioned use of government data and artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on American privacy and national security.
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April 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to non-principal agency officials involved in the unsecured Signal group chat in which senior Trump Administration officials discussed highly sensitive, likely classified plans for a military operation in Yemen using unapproved and unlawful communication methods, unknowingly included The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg in those discussions, and endangered the lives of American servicemembers involved in the operation.
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April 1, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025). Below is Ranking Member Maxwell Alejandro Frost's opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today's Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs hearing on the costs associated with powering AI data centers, including costs to people's civil rights and health, the economy, the environment. 
 


April 1, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2025)—Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Emily Randall, Rep. Lateefah Simon, and Rep. Wesley Bell sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S.

Issues: Health Care

March 29, 2025
Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), demanding he immediately resume the agency’s core function to make available recommended vaccines following the shocking resignation of the nation’s top F.D.A. vaccination official and HHS’s cancellation of vaccine advisory committee planning and grants for life-saving vaccine research.
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Issues: Health Care

March 28, 2025

Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to illegally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fire all USAID employees, and absorb the agency into the State Department.

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March 28, 2025

Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Bobby Scott, Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, issued the following statement on President Trump’s union busting Executive Order:

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