Press Releases

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) today is calling on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to provide all White House communications with social media companies and between federal employees about efforts to pressure social media platforms to censor online content. The Biden-Harris Administration has a track record of bullying social media companies to censor content by suppressing ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “A Hearing with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo” to examine the former governor’s role in issuance of unscientific guidance that forced New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit COVID-19 positive patients. Ahead of the hearing, the Select Subcommittee released a

Provides recommendations to protect taxpayers and prevent fraud in unemployment insurance programs in the future WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) released a staff report titled “Widespread Failures and Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs.” The report details information, documents, and ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) today opened a hearing titled “Where Do We Go From Here? Examining a Path Forward to Assess Agencies’ Efforts to Prevent Improper Payments and Fraud” by discussing findings in the Oversight Committee’s staff ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “Varney & Company” with Stuart Varney on Fox Business to discuss a committee report released today titled “Examining Widespread Failures and Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs.” He pointed out how Congressional Democrats’ and the Biden-Harris Administration’s spending spree led to ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) announced a subpoena to compel the New York State Executive Chamber, now led by Governor Kathy Hochul, to hand over documents related to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous COVID-19 pandemic response and nursing home policies. During Chairman Wenstrup’s opening statement at today’s hearing with Mr. Cuomo, he confronted the former Governor with evidence of New York’s ...

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce today held a hearing titled “Where Do We Go From Here? Examining a Path Forward to Assess Agencies’ Efforts to Prevent Improper Payments and Fraud” to examine the effectiveness of existing oversight mechanisms in federal agencies to ...

Announces Subpoena for the New York State Governor’s Office WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) delivered opening remarks at “A Hearing with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.” Chairman Wenstrup began his statement by explaining that the Select Subcommittee has been threatened twice this Congress — once by the Chinese Communist Party and a second time by Mr. Cuomo through his attorney. The ...

Cuomo will testify before COVID Select at a 2:00pm public hearing tomorrow WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) released a staff memorandum titled “Findings from the Select Subcommittee’s Investigation into the Cuomo Administration’s March 25 Directive Admitting COVID-Positive Patients into Nursing Homes.” This memo presents evidence that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his team ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 8333, the BIOSECURE Act, introduced by Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.). The bipartisan, bicameral bill prohibits U.S. taxpayer dollars from flowing to biotechnology companies that are owned, operated, or controlled by China or other foreign adversaries and specifically names five companies with extensive ties ...