Committee On

Oversight & Government Reform

113th Hearings

BY FULL COMMITTEE and SUBCOMMITTEE


May 16, 2013
Opportunities Lost: Constraints on Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands and Waters

Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) Continue reading →

May 14, 2013
Data Centers and the Cloud: Is the Government Optimizing New Information Technologies to Save Taxpayers Money?

Subcommittee on Government Operations, Chairman John Mica (R-FL) Continue reading →

May 9, 2013
Is OPM Processing Federal Worker Pension Claims on Time?

Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the Census, Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-TX) Continue reading →

Federal Government Approaches to Issuing Biometric IDs

Subcommittee on Government Operations, Chairman John Mica (R-FL) Continue reading →

May 8, 2013
Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage

Full Committee Hearing, Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) Continue reading →

May 7, 2013
DOJ’s Quid Pro Quo with St. Paul: A Whistleblower’s Perspective

Joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Constitution and Civil Justice, Chairman Trent Franks (R-AZ) Continue reading →

April 25, 2013
Examining the Lack of Transparency and Consumer Driven Market Forces in U.S. Health Care

Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements, Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) Continue reading →

Oversight of the Federal Government’s Procurement of Ammunition
Government Operations Oversight: Addressing Unused and Vacant Federal Property

Subcommittee on Government Operations, Chairman John Mica (R-FL) Continue reading →

April 24, 2013
Green Energy Oversight: Examining the Department of Energy’s Bad Bet on Fisker Automotive

Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) Continue reading →

Broken Promises: The Small Business Lending Fund’s Backdoor Bank Bailout

Full Committee Hearing, Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) Continue reading →

April 18, 2013
Sequestration Oversight: Prioritizing Security over Administrative Costs at TSA
April 17, 2013
Contracting to Feed U.S. Troops in Afghanistan: How did the Defense Department End Up in a Multi-Billion Dollar Billing Dispute?
Options to Bring the Postal Service Back from Insolvency

Testimony from the GAO characterizes the Postal Service’s financial condition as “dire”.   What’s frustrating is that this is not…

April 16, 2013
Open to Visitors? Assessing the Federal Effort to Minimize the Sequester’s Impact on Access to Our Nation’s Capital and National Treasures

Chairman’s preview statement: The questions…are about whether or not this Administration is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the sequester. Continue reading →

April 11, 2013
The Federal Employees Health Benefit Program: Is It a Good Value for Federal Employees?
April 10, 2013
Ahead of Postal Reform: Hearing from USPS Business Partners
U.S. Foreign Assistance: What Oversight Mechanisms are in Place to Ensure Accountability?
April 9, 2013
Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO’s 2013 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs

Chairman Issa Hearing Preview Statement Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO’s 2013 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs   Today’s hearing…

March 19, 2013
The Department of Energy’s Strategy for Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas