Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office; Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member Rep. Henry A. Waxman Home United States House of Representatives Rep. Henry A. Waxman

All Investigations

As set forth in House Rule X, clause 4, the Committee on Government Reform may, at any time, conduct investigations of any matter regardless of whether another standing committee has jurisdiction over the matter. In 1998, Rep. Waxman formed the Special Investigations Division of the minority staff to conduct investigations into issues that are important to the minority members of the Government Reform Committee and other members of Congress.

Current and Past Investigations:

  • Abstinence-Only Education

  • Abu Ghraib Prison Abuses

  • Administration Oversight

  • Arsenic in Drinking Water

  • Census Data

  • Chemical Regulation

  • Cheney Energy Task Force

  • Colored Contact Lenses

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: Campaign Finance

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: Clinton Pardons

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: Department of Justice

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: Health Investigations

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: Waco Investigation

  • Committee Activities in Past Congresses: White House E-Mails Investigation

  • Congressional Preemption of State Laws

  • Dietary Supplements

  • Disabled Veterans Tax

  • Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity

  • Education

  • Elections and Voting

  • Energy Policy

  • Enron Investigation

  • Environment

  • Fifty Caliber Rifles and Ammunition

  • Flu Vaccine Crisis

  • Food Safety

  • Global Terrorism Report

  • Global Tobacco Accord

  • Government Use of Propaganda

  • Guns

  • Head Start

  • HIV/AIDS

  • Holocaust-Era Insurance Restitution

  • Hurricane Katrina Response

  • Information Technology

  • Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence

  • Iraq Reconstruction

  • Medicaid and Medicare

  • Medical Privacy

  • Medicare Bill Cost Estimates

  • Member Reports

  • National Missile Defense

  • Nursing Homes

  • Open Government

  • Politics and Science

  • Postal Reform

  • Prescription Drugs

  • Price Discrimination

  • Public Health

  • Seven Member Rule

  • Social Security

  • Steroid Use in Sports

  • Terrorism

  • Tobacco

  • U.S. House Ethics

  • United States Congress

  • Veterans Health Care

  • Western Energy Crisis

  • Workplace Injuries

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