House Oversight Committee

A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids. The panel says the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads.

Two members of the Sackler family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma have acknowledged the drug had a role in the opioid epidemic

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into what they call repeated violations of the federal Hatch Act by members of the Trump administration during last month’s Republican National Convention. The 1939 law is intended to limit political activity by federal employees in their official capacity, although it does not apply to the president and vice president….

A U.S. Census Bureau document says some steps in the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census will need to be cut in order to meet an end-of-the-year deadline and that could increase the risk for errors.

The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Asked by Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., Monday if he would commit to reverse delay-causing changes to the U.S. Postal Service, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said, “No.”

The House has approved legislation that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is calling the House back into session this week to vote on a bill prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from implementing any changes to operations or level of service

The House Oversight Committee has invited the new postmaster general to appear at a hearing next month to examine operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries.

D.C. statehood will get a vote in the the U.S. House of Representatives next month, the District’s mayor announced Thursday. The House Oversight and Reform Committee is set to mark up and vote on H.R. 51, a bill that would make D.C. the 51st state, on Feb. 11. The announcement was made Thursday at a press conference at the...

Many K-9s deployed overseas as part of a State Department program intended to help partner countries detect and prevent terror attacks suffer or die from neglect by their foreign handlers, according to a report from the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General.

Earlier this year, the News4 I-Team revealed bomb-sniffing K-9s trained locally and deployed overseas were dying of neglect by their foreign handlers. Scott MacFarlane reports the State Department said it’s ordering major changes amid revelations even more dogs have perished than previously reported.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified before lawmakers on Tuesday that he had turned down repeated offers from Ukraine to work as the country’s Defense Minister, saying that “the whole notion is rather comical.”

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified before lawmakers on Tuesday that he had turned down repeated offers from Ukraine to work as the country’s Defense Minister, saying that “the whole notion is rather comical.”

It’s “excruciating.” It smells like a “locker room.” And what happens there is supposed to stay there. When history is written about President Donald Trump’s presidency, a key chapter in the House’s drive to impeach him will be set in a spy-proof bunker tucked beneath a spiral staircase just to the east of the U.S. Capitol. There, three House committees...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

The effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns is heating up as the president and his administration battle coast to coast to prevent them from falling into hostile hands and potentially being made public, NBC News reports. In New York, the president seeks to prevent Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining his tax information as part of an...

Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill of California has resigned amid an ethics probe and revelations of an affair with a campaign staffer. In a statement Sunday, the 32-year-old freshman from the Los Angeles area says leaving the House is best for her constituents, community and country.