Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Democrats

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement and backgrounder in response to the release of a Republican staff report criticizing a new joint rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers implementing the Clean Water Act:

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released selected documents relating to its investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use: “I am encouraged that the FBI released some information today, but I am disappointed that it did not release all of the documents together, including documents relating to dozens of other senior officials who authored and sent emails that have now been deemed classified when they were sent. Even with this limited production, however, the documents made public today demonstrate that our nation’s classification system is fundamentally broken and in desperate need of reform.”

Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Elliot L. Engel, and Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to evidence that the Trump campaign apparently knew months beforehand about the hacking of emails from the account of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta: