Tag: Oversight

From the Oversight Committee: Chairman Waxman Issues a Subpoena for EPA Documents WASHINGTON, DC — Chairman Henry A. Waxman issued a subpoena to compel EPA to provide unredacted copies of documents that have been improperly withheld from the Committee regarding EPA's decision… Continue

Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn respond to President Bush’s assertion this morning that the new legislation the House is considering this week to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “would undermine America’s security.” Speaker Pelosi: Q: “Are you saying the… Continue

The Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight is currently holding a hearing, “War Powers for the 21st Century: The Congressional Perspective.” Witness include former U.S. Representatives David E. Skaggs, a Democrat, and Mickey Edwards, a Republican, as well… Continue

Today, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and 19 Members of the Judiciary Committee issued a statement regarding telecommunications immunity, as the House prepares to consider the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Following a review of classified information relating to the warrantless surveillance… Continue

The Education and Labor Committee held a hearing this morning on legislation to help prevent worksite explosions like the one at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, in early February that killed 12 workers and critically injured 11 others. The… Continue

To increase the public trust in Congress, the House has just passed H.Res. 895, to strengthen congressional ethics enforcement with a new Office of Congressional Ethics. This will bring greater accountability and transparency to the ethics enforcement process by requiring, for the… Continue

Today the Education and Labor Committee Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing concerning President Bush’s proposal to slash $281 million from funding for after school programs, which would force hundreds of thousands of children out of these… Continue

Read the complaint (pdf) >> Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “The House is taking action today to uphold the rule of law and to protect our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Congress, on behalf of the American people, is clearly entitled to the… Continue

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning after President Bush vetoed the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report because it included a provision extending the Army Field Manual’s prohibition on torture to intelligence community personnel: The President’s veto of… Continue

This morning, President Bush announced he vetoed the House and Senate passed Intelligence Authorization bill because it extended the prohibition on the use of waterboarding and other harsh coercive interrogation techniques that currently applies to the military to the entire Intelligence Community,… Continue