The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hit the ground running since January of this year – and we have no plans on slowing down. As a refresher, this committee has broad legislative jurisdiction over several different issue areas: the District of Columbia, the government procurement process, federal personnel systems, the Postal Service, and other matters. In short, the primary function of this committee is to serve as a diligent set of eyes over everything the government does. As you’ll see in what I’m about to share with you, we are doing just that.

Since the start of the 118^th Congress, the Oversight and Accountability Committee has:

• Held a total of 57 separate hearings.
  
• Issued more than 230 investigative letters.
  
• Received testimony from 47 government witnesses.
  
• Passed 16 bills in the House or Committee – with one of them being the Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act (UMATA) that I have introduced.
  
• Launched investigations into the Biden family’s brazen influence peddling schemes.
  
• Rooted out waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending, pandemic relief programs, and other areas.

Here’s the bottom line, there’s still a great deal of work to be done to hold the Biden administration accountable for its glaring failures and radical policies. I, along with my Republican colleagues on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, have no intention of letting up any time soon. It is our solemn responsibility is to hold the government accountable to the American people – as well as to bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. You can rest assured that we will see both of those imperatives to fruition.

Our Answer

Recently, Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA), joined me in introducing H.R. 4957, the Department of Labor Succession Act, legislation that clarifies federal law to ensure that the tenure of an Acting Secretary of Labor aligns with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (Vacancies Act). The confirmation process of Julie Su, President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, has stalled in the Senate. Instead of pulling her nomination, the President has turned again to flouting the law and installing her as the de facto leader of the Department of Labor – thereby retaining a failed nominee who favors Big Labor special interests over the American worker.

To learn more about the Department of Labor Succession Act, click here.

Accountability Will Be Upheld

The Supreme Court’s ruling against the Biden administration’s student loan “forgiveness” scheme means that a plan must be developed for student loan borrowers to return to repayment. Unfortunately, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and his staff have been stonewalling multiple requests for a briefing on this issue for more than 13 weeks. Given the Department’s disgraceful, untransparent record, it is obvious that additional steps will be necessary to get answers for the American people, including subpoenas and depositions. A primary responsibility that’s vested in the Education and Workforce Committee is the conducting of rigorous oversight of the Department of Education – and we will continue to do just that.

Quote of The Week

“It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.”

-Alexander Hamilton

Have a blessed weekend,