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For the 118th Congress, Republicans changed the name to "Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The 119th Congress changed the name back to Committee on Oversight and Government Reform when Republicans won a Government trifecta during the 2024 United States elections. Since 2007, it has simply been called the "Oversight Committee" for short.
Oversight is an implied rather than an enumerated power under the U.S. Constitution. [3] The government's charter does not explicitly grant Congress the authority to conduct inquiries or investigations of the executive, to have access to records or materials held by the executive, or to issue subpoenas for documents or testimony from the executive.
From the House Rules: The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall include all matters within the scope of the full Committee’s jurisdiction but shall be limited to existing law. Said oversight jurisdiction shall not be exclusive but shall be concurrent with that of the other Subcommittees.
From the committee's website, the subcommittee's jurisdiction includes: The Subcommittee on Responsiveness and Accountability To Oversight has jurisdiction over the responsiveness of agencies, departments, and entities to oversight requests of the Committee and any Subcommittee of the Committee and the operations of their congressional liaisons or offices of legislative affairs, with respect ...
The New York Democrat wrote in a letter to colleagues, “I write to you today to seek your support to serve as Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 119th ...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) launched a bid Tuesday to become the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the next Congress, a high-profile seat that will be on ...
The Committee on House Administration is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.The powers and duties of the Committee include the statutory responsibilities of the Committee on House Administration, as determined primarily by the Legislative Reorganization Acts of 1946 and 1970; the House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act of 1996 ...
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security on Monday following whistleblower allegations about an internal employee group chat discussing "serious concerns" about ...