Category: House Oversight Committee

House Oversight Chairman Requests Foreign Business Records From Hunter Biden, James Biden

The chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability made his first formal requests Thursday in the panel’s investigation of the Biden family’s alleged influence peddling. In three Feb. 9 letters, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) requested that Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their former business associate, Eric Schwerin, turn over all records, communications, and documents…


Archives Told to Suppress Statement on Penn Biden Document Search, Republicans Say

The National Archives told Congress on Feb. 1 that it had been ordered to suppress a statement regarding the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center in November, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The revelation was made on the committee’s Twitter account, shortly after Ian Sams, senior adviser to the…


Former Twitter Execs Set to Testify Before Congress on Hunter Biden Laptop Case

Former executives of Twitter are scheduled to testify before Congress about the company’s decision, ahead of the 2020 election, to suppress reporting about a laptop that reportedly belonged to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. In an emailed statement to NTD News, House Oversight Committee Communications Director Jessica Collins confirmed that former Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James…


House Oversight Launches Probe Into Border Crisis Under Biden Administration

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Jan. 19 is investigating the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis amid record numbers of illegal aliens entering the United States from Mexico, and continued fentanyl smuggling into the country. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee,  issued a letter (pdf) to Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of…


NTD Good Morning (Jan. 20): Judge Sanctions Trump Nearly $1M for Suing Hillary Clinton; Supreme Court Leaker Not Found

‘A frivolous lawsuit’. That’s what a Federal judge called former President Donald Trump’s case against Hillary Clinton. And he handed out a nearly million-dollar fine to boot. The U.S. Supreme Court has failed to identify who was behind the leak of a draft version of the ruling that overturned Roe V Wade. That’s the conclusion of…


NTD Good Morning (Jan. 20): Judge Sanctions Trump Nearly $1 Million for Suing Hillary Clinton; Supreme Court Leaker Not Found

“A frivolous lawsuit”—That’s what a federal judge called former President Donald Trump’s case against Hillary Clinton. And he handed out a nearly $1 million fine to boot. The U.S. Supreme Court has failed to identify who was behind the leak of a draft version of the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. That’s the conclusion…


Proposed Panel Would Give House GOP Oversight of ‘Ongoing Criminal Investigations’

Members of a proposed House subcommittee to investigate the “weaponization of the federal government” will have the authority to review ongoing criminal investigations if the new House rules package is approved on Jan. 9. Proposed as a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s sweeping powers were agreed to by Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)…


White House Says House Republicans Will Need to Resubmit Oversight Requests

The White House responded to recent oversight requests from House Republicans on Thursday by stating that those requests would have to be resubmitted. In two letters obtained exclusively by Politico, White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber reportedly vowed to act in good faith when responding to requests from incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer…


Lame Duck Bills by 2 Key Democrats Herald 2023 House Racial Equity Battle on Hill

Outgoing House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney lost her primary earlier this year, and so will not be returning in 2023, but the New York Democrat’s influence in the lower chamber of Congress will continue well into the New Year, thanks to two bills she filed on Dec. 16. Joined in the…


Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against ‘Election Misinformation’

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee demanded in an Aug. 11 report that the federal government do more to respond to alleged “election misinformation,” which they say has weakened the capacity of election offices across the United States to carry out their official duties. The committee report claimed that so-called misinformation efforts led by President…