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Oct
03
2016

House Oversight Committee - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) announced that they sent a letter to Mylan CEO Heather Bresch requesting information related to the company’s EpiPen profit margins. The letter also outlines other documents Bresch agreed to provide the Committee during a September 21st hearing. Key excerpts from the letter: “This week… the Committee learned that your testimony omitted key tax assum... Read more

Sep
29
2016

SF Chronicle - The head of Yosemite National Park has resigned, a week after a heated congressional oversight hearing into allegations of sexual harassment, bullying and other misconduct at Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and other national parks. Superintendent Don Neubacher, who had led Yosemite for seven years, said Wednesday that he would step down in the wake of allegations from 20 employees. Yosemite officials revealed the move Thursday while offering little explanation. “I regret leav... Read more

Sep
23
2016

AP Top News - Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, says a Republican congressman. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the Associated Press on Friday that Mills gave federal investigators access to her laptop on the condition that fin... Read more

Sep
22
2016

Fox News - The House oversight committee voted Thursday to recommend holding the former State Department IT specialist who set up Hillary Clinton’s private server in contempt of Congress, after he again ignored a subpoena to appear before the panel. The resolution to hold Bryan Pagliano in contempt goes next to the full House, which would ultimately decide whether to hold the controversial figure in the Clinton email case in contempt. “Subpoenas are not optional,” committee Chairman Jason Chaffe... Read more

Sep
21
2016

Fox Business - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday blasted steep price increases for Mylan's EpiPen emergency allergy treatment as they grilled the company's Chief Executive Heather Bresch at a congressional hearing. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called Bresch to testify after the company raised the list price for a pair of EpiPens to $600 compared with $100 in 2007, when it acquired the product. Congressman Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat on the committee, said Mylan "jacked ... Read more

Sep
19
2016

Federal News Radio - There is no disputing the 2015 Office of Personnel Management data breach was a disastrous event. The implications are catastrophic and will reverberate for generations. Foreign attackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) and security clearance background investigation information of 22.1 million individuals, capturing fingerprint data of 5.6 million of those individuals. This didn’t have to happen. The arrival of sophisticated threat actors shouldn’t have come... Read more

Sep
14
2016

Salt Lake Tribune - Congress still has time to pass legislation to preserve parts of the Bears Ears region in southeastern Utah — and halt a national monument designation — before year’s end, one of the sponsors said Wednesday. “We’re moving at a record pace for Congress,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said as a House Natural Resources subcommittee took up the bill. “We’ll be back in November and December, and there’s lots of legislation that will move at that time.” The Public Lands Initiative (... Read more

Sep
13
2016

Fox News - A powerful Republican lawmaker abruptly stopped a hearing Monday on Capitol Hill to serve a subpoena demanding the FBI’s full investigative file on the Hillary Clinton email probe to a top official, telling the man “you are hereby served.” The dramatic moment came as House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, expressed frustration that the FBI would not guarantee to provide the committee with the full, unedited, unredacted investigative summaries of the federal inquiry... Read more

Sep
07
2016

House Oversight Committee - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released a staff report titled, The OPM Data Breach: How the Government Jeopardized Our National Security for More than a Generation, chronicling the Committee’s year-long investigation into how highly personal, highly sensitive data of millions of Americans was compromised by a foreign adversary in 2015. The report outlines findings and recommendations to help the federal government better ac... Read more

Sep
06
2016

House Oversight Committee - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (USADC) requesting a review of evidence that may amount to obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence by Secretary Clinton and her employees and contractors. Chairman Chaffetz also sent a letter to former Secretary Clinton’s IT management company, Platte River Networks (PRN), for information related to potential evidence d... Read more