Showing posts with label House Oversight Committee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House Oversight Committee. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2026

‘I Want To Play A Brief Video’: James Walkinshaw Flips The Script On GOP in ICE hearing

During a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy," Representative James Walkinshaw (D-VA) gave his Republican colleagues an example of "chaos" by playing a video of ICE agents illegally entering the home of a U.S. citizen without a judicial warrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVweCTo_X8U 

Thursday, March 5, 2026

House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case - POLITICO

Five Republicans joined with all Democrats in support of a motion to call the nation's top law enforcement official up to Capitol Hill for questioning, and the motion itself was offered by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/pam-bondi-subpoena-epstien-00812960 


 

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

GOP-led House committees release lengthy report alleging President Biden committed impeachable offenses

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Monday morning dismissed the report led by allies of Trump as a "baseless" effort to impeach Biden in a post to X. 

"House Democrats will continue to put people over politics," Jeffries wrote. "Extreme MAGA Republicans are baselessly threatening to impeach President Biden and shut down the government in September." 

"These extremists are unfit to govern," he added...

Friday, July 12, 2024

Exclusive: House Oversight subpoenas top Biden aides over his mental fitness

"His partisan attacks on the president have been discredited, and now he continues to debase the House by weaponizing subpoenas to get headlines instead of seeking information through the proper constitutional process."

House Democrats call for investigation into crisis pregnancy center funding

"Given the concerns from medical professionals and reproductive health experts that CPCs are not bound by medical and ethical practice standards and often do not provide medically accurate information or health care, and the resources they do provide are tied to undermining maternal health and access to abortion, we have serious concerns that CPCs continue to receive millions in federal aid with little transparency and accountability to the public," they wrote…

Thursday, February 1, 2024

James Comer’s latest anti-Biden flop adds to Republican’s troubles

After the hearing, Comer sat down with Fox News' Sean Hannity and complained that his panel keeps hearing from witnesses who have "had a hard time remembering the bad things." 

 It seemed like a curious way for the Republican congressman to effectively concede, "We haven't found anything."…

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

White House accuses the GOP’s James Comer of ‘blatantly lying’

It comes against a backdrop of the Kentucky Republican making promises he couldn't keep, holding hearings that undermined his own partisan efforts, releasing ostensible "evidence" filled with factual errors, drawing the ire of his own GOP colleagues, and failing spectacularly to find any credible evidence against his intended target. 

But perhaps most important of all is appreciating Comer's motivations. The more the Oversight Committee chairman plays fast and loose with the truth, the more we're reminded that his impeachment crusade has failed to such an extent that he feels it's necessary to play fast and loose with the truth...

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Trump Allies Win Seats on House Oversight Committee, Reflecting GOP Priorities - The New York Times

Their appointments are the latest evidence that the new Republican majority is driven by a hard-right faction that has modeled itself in Mr. Trump's image, shares his penchant for dealing in incendiary statements and misinformation, and is bent on using its newfound power to exact revenge on Democrats and President Biden…


Biden world giddy at MTG, Gosar, and Boebert being placed on Oversight - POLITICO

"The more unserious people performing congressional oversight the easier this is going to be for the [Biden] administration. And in that regard I think the White House hit the jackpot. This is a crowd that will make [former House Oversight chair] Darrell Issa look intellectual."..


Saturday, November 5, 2022

Trump's gifts from foreign leaders under scrutiny from House Oversight committee - The Washington Post

"He said, 'They gave me these, these are my gifts,' " said Kelly, recounting his conversation with Trump. "But I'd say, 'No sir, they gave these to the president of the United States. You have to look at that as an official gift from a country.' He would be totally against that. He was adamant that they were his gifts and he couldn't understood why he couldn't keep these gifts."


Saturday, August 20, 2022

Saturday, March 7, 2020

House Oversight panel calls on GOP to stop sending 'census' mailers | TheHill

Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday demanded that the Republican National Committee (RNC) stop sending mailers labeled as a district "census" that could be misinterpreted as official census forms.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/486189-house-oversight-panel-calls-on-gop-to-stop-sending-census-mailers

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

House Oversight accuses Border Patrol of blocking investigation into secret Facebook group | TheHill

The House Oversight Committee accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on Tuesday of "stonewalling" an investigation into a secret Facebook group made up of current and former Border Patrol members which contained offensive content about migrants. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/483477-house-oversight-accuses-border-patrol-of-blocking-investigation-into-secret

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Court puts temporary hold on House access to Trump’s tax records - The Washington Post

President Trump's personal attorneys had requested a stay while the justices consider whether the House Oversight Committee can see his financial records. An appeals court had ruled that the committee was within its rights to issue a subpoena for the documents from Trump's longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-blocks-house-committee-from-immediately-reviewing-trumps-financial-records/2019/11/25/b73a26ac-0d79-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html








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