The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducts vigorous oversight to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, to improve the operations of the federal government, and to examine wrongdoing in the private sector. The Committee has legislative jurisdiction over federal procurement, civil service, management and information policy.
The following links describe some of the oversight accomplishments of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 110th Congress. For a summary of the Committee's legislative accomplishments, please view the legislation page.
EPA announced it would not go forward with regulation that would have degraded air quality in our National Parks and other areas with clean air.
EPA announced that it would not go forward with the regulation that would allow older power plants to increase their emissions of air pollutants and exacerbate global warming.
A Committee hearing into uranium contamination on the Navajo Reservation prompted the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to begin assessing the extent of contamination and to prepare clean up plans.
After the Committee raised questions about the conduct of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its then-director, Dr. David Schwartz, the Director of the National Institutes of Health announced there would be a comprehensive review of Dr. Schwartz’s conduct and Dr. Schwartz resigned.
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