Tag: Oversight

In light of four consecutive months of job losses the Education and Labor Committee held a hearing this morning, “Do Federal Programs Ensure U.S. Workers Are Recruited First Before Employers Hire From Abroad?” Employers who want to hire guest workers under the… Continue

From the Judiciary Committee: House Judiciary Committee Responds to Addington Letter (Washington, DC)- Today, the Vice President’s office sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Committee’s request for testimony from David Addington, Chief of Staff to the Vice President…. Continue

White House forces resignation of embattled GSA chief Dan Friedman and Robert Brodsky, Government Executive – April 30, 2008 Lurita Doan, the embattled head of the General Services Administration, resigned at the request of the White House, sources said Tuesday. According to… Continue

The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, “Oversight of Defense Department Acquisitions.” The hearing will examine the recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled, “Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs” (pdf). This report found that the Defense Department's… Continue

The Education and Labor Committee held a hearing today, “Child Abuse and Deceptive Marketing by Residential Programs for Teens,” to examine residential programs for teens, including boot camps, wilderness camps, therapeutic boarding schools, and behavior modification facilities. The hearing also examined legislation… Continue

Rep. Ike Skelton, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, speaks on the House floor on recent revelations from the New York Times. The story, “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,” explained how the Pentagon set up private briefings for a network… Continue

Today, the House passed three more key bills to hold federal contractors accountable and crack down on fraud and abuse. U.S. taxpayers are outraged at the massive levels of waste, fraud and abuse that have been documented in large government contracts to… Continue

On March 3rd, 2008 the Oversight Committee released a report, “The Administration's Medicaid Regulations: State-By-State Impacts.” The report examined seven Administration-imposed Medicaid regulations which, if implemented, would slash federal Medicaid funding to states for vital programs and services by about $18 billion… Continue

Today in a letter to EPA Administrator Johnson, Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee requested that he be prepared to testify in May regarding the recently released Union of Concerned Scientists Report documenting extensive and widespread political interference with the work… Continue

The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, “Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence” Federally-funded abstinence-only programs require the exclusive teaching of abstinence until marriage and prohibit teaching about condoms or other contraceptives — other than to discuss failure rates. These programs… Continue