House Oversight Committee

Kushner formed an investment firm right after Trump left office, and six months later, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, controlled by the crown prince, invested $2 billion.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform wants Commanders owner Dan Snyder and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to appear June 22.

The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming

House Oversight Committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., announced Thursday that the committee would be issuing subpoenas to six fossil fuel companies after they refused to comply with its investigation over Big Oil’s role in spreading climate change misinformation.

The U.S. House Oversight Committee has set a deadline of next Thursday for the National Football League to hand over records about the Washington Football Team as the congressional committee investigates how the league handled allegations of the team’s “hostile workplace culture.”

News4’s Investigative Reporter Scott MacFarlane spoke to one of the lawmakers leading the review of how the NFL handled allegations of a hostile workplace culture at the Washington Football Team.

Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call

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...

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.

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.