[House Report 112-128]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
Union Calendar No. 78
112th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 112-128
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ACTIVITIES
of the
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
JUNE 2011
(Pursuant to House Rule XI, 1(d)(1))
Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.fdsys.gov
http://www.house.gov/reform
June 28, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
DARRELL E. ISSA, California, Chairman
DAN BURTON, Indiana ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland,
JOHN L. MICA, Florida Ranking Minority Member
TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
PATRICK T. McHENRY, North Carolina ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of
JIM JORDAN, Ohio Columbia
JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
CONNIE MACK, Florida JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
TIM WALBERG, Michigan WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri
JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts
JUSTIN AMASH, Michigan JIM COOPER, Tennessee
ANN MARIE BUERKLE, New York GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
PAUL A. GOSAR, Arizona MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois
RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois
PATRICK MEEHAN, Pennsylvania BRUCE L. BRALEY, Iowa
SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee PETER WELCH, Vermont
JOE WALSH, Illinois JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky
TREY GOWDY, South Carolina CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut
DENNIS A. ROSS, Florida JACKIE SPEIER, California
FRANK C. GUINTA, New Hampshire
BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas
MIKE KELLY, Pennsylvania
Lawrence J. Brady, Staff Director
John D. Cuaderes, Deputy Staff Director
Robert Borden, General Counsel
Linda A. Good, Chief Clerk
David Rapallo, Minority Staff Director
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
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House of Representatives,
Washington, DC, June 28, 2011.
Hon. John A. Boehner,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Speaker: In accordance with Rule XI(1)(d)(1) of
the Rules of the House of Representatives, I respectfully
submit the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's first
semiannual activities report for the 112th Congress.
Darrell E. Issa,
Chairman.
C O N T E N T S
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Page
I. Legislative Activities...........................................2
II. Oversight Activities.............................................3
III. Summary of Committee Oversight Plan.............................15
IV. Summary of Actions Taken and Recommendations Made with Respect to
the Oversight Plan..............................................17
V. Summary of Any Additional Oversight Activities Undertaken, and Any
Recommendations Made or Actions Taken Thereon...................23
VI. Delineation of any Hearings Held Pursuant to Clauses 2 (n), (o),
or (p)..........................................................24
Union Calendar No. 78
112th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 112-128
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ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
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June 30, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Mr. Darrell E. Issa, from the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform, submitted the following
REPORT
ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM,
112TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, JUNE 2011
INTRODUCTION
The number one priority of this Congress is to foster
private sector job creation and get Americans back to work.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is
uniquely positioned to conduct a broad-based, economy-wide
examination of the barriers that stand in the way of job growth
and economic recovery. In his State of the Union Address, the
President called for a government-wide examination of
regulations, to ``help our companies compete'' and to ``knock
down barriers that stand in the way of their success.''
In the first half of the first session of the 112th
Congress, the Committee held numerous hearings, including those
at both the full committee and the subcommittee levels, to
examine how the rules proposed and implemented by the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior,
the Department of Labor, and the General Services
Administration, among others, have hurt job creation. In
addition, the Subcommittee on Technology has held three
legislative hearings considering ways to improve the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act, culminating in a productive discussion of
regulatory review with the Director of the White House Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Private sector economic growth is not only held back by
regulatory barriers standing in the way of small, medium-sized,
and large businesses, but also by the uncertainty surrounding
our nation's skyrocketing debt. The Committee's unique position
to oversee all federal government agencies and functions, as
well as our role in crafting federal workforce and government
management legislation, gives us the opportunity to promote
private sector economic growth by reducing fraud, abuse, and
mismanagement in government spending, and improving government
performance.
During the first quarter of the 112th Congress, the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held 64 oversight
hearings and reported and discharged seven bills and
resolutions to the House for consideration, including the
resurrection of the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship
Program and bills dealing with tax accountability for federal
employees and contractors.
To carry out its duties most effectively, the Committee
established seven standing subcommittees: the Subcommittee on
Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy; the
Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and
Financial Management; the Subcommittee on Health Care, District
of Columbia, Census and the National Archives; the Subcommittee
on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations;
the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and
Government Spending; the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs; and the
Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy,
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform.
I. Legislative Activities
BILLS ENACTED INTO LAW
H.R. 1308, to amend the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission
Act to extend the termination date for the Commission, and for
other purposes. Introduced by Rep. Elton Gallegly on April 1,
2011, passed the House on May 12, 2011, and became Public Law
112-13.
BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE
H.R. 471, Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act.
Introduced by Rep. John Boehner on January 26, 2011. History:
H.R. 471 was introduced on January 26, 2011; was marked up by
the Committee on March 10, 2011, and ordered favorably reported
by a vote of 21 ayes to 14 nays; H. Rept. 112-36 filed on March
17, 2011; and passed the House on March 30, 2011, by a vote of
225-195.
H.R. 1255, Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2011.
Introduced by Rep. Steve Womack on March 30, 2011, with primary
referral to the Committee on Appropriations. History: H.R. 1255
was introduced on March 30, 2011; the Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform did not act on H.R. 1255; and it was
passed by the House on April 1, 2011, by a vote of 221-201.
BILLS PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE
H.R. 828, Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2011.
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on February 28, 2011.
History: Marked up by the Committee on April 13, 2011, and
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
H.R. 829, Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011.
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on February 28, 2011.
History: Marked up by the Committee on April 13, 2011, and
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
H.R. 899, to amend title 41, United States Code, to extend
the sunset date for certain protests of task and deliver order
contracts. Introduced by Rep. James Lankford on March 3, 2011.
History: Marked up by the Committee on March 10, 2011, and
ordered reported favorably, by voice vote; H. Rept. 112-37
filed on March 17, 2011.
H.R. 1470, to amend title 5, U.S.C., to extend the
probationary period applicable to appointments in the civil
service, and for other purposes. Introduced by Rep. Dennis Ross
on April 8, 2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on April
13, 2011, and ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a vote
of 15 ayes to 14 nays.
POSTAL NAMING MEASURES
Enacted:
H.R. 793, to designate the facility of the United States
Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in
Inverness, California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza
Post Office.''
Passed by the House:
H.R. 1423, to designate the facility of the United States
Postal Service located at 115 4th Avenue Southwest in Ardmore,
Oklahoma, as the ``Specialist Michael E. Phillips Post
Office.''
II. Oversight Activities
FULL COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD
Jan. 25, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Organization
Meeting.
Jan. 26, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing on
``Bailouts and the Foreclosure Crisis: Report of the Special
Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
(``SIGTARP'').'' Witnesses: The Honorable Neil Barofsky,
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief
Program; The Honorable Tim Massad, Acting Assistant Secretary
for Financial Stability and Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of
the Treasury.
Feb. 10, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting
regarding the Oversight Plan.
Full Committee Hearing, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job
Creation.'' Witnesses: Mr. Jay Timmons, CEO, National
Association of Manufacturers; Mr. Tom Nassif, President and
CEO, Western Growers Association; Mr. Harry Alford, CEO, Black
Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Michael J. Fredrich, President, MCM
Composites, LLC; Mr. Jack Buschur, Buschur Electric; Mr. James
Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy, The
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Sidney Shapiro, Center for Progressive
Reform; Ms. Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO, Small Business
and Entrepreneurship Council; and Mr. Jerry Ellig, Senior
Research Fellow, Mercatus Center.
Feb. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing ``Waste
and Abuse: The Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge.''
Witnesses: Hon. Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senate; Mr. Andrew
Moylan, Vice President of Government Affairs, National
Taxpayers Union; Mr. Thomas A. Schatz, President, Citizens
Against Government Waste; Ms. Debra Cammer, Vice President and
Partner, IBM; Hon. Gene L. Kodaro, Comptroller General of the
United States, U.S. Government Accounting Office; Veronique de
Rugy, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; Mr.
Vincent Frakes, Federal Policy Manager, Center for Health
Transformation; Mr. Gary Kalman, Director, Federal Legislative
Office, U.S. PIRG.
Feb. 28, 2011, 10:30 a.m.--Joint Hearing with Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure on ``America's Presidential
Libraries: Their Mission and Their Future.'' Witnesses: Hon.
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, National
Archives and Records Administration; Mr. Thomas Putman,
Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Mr.
R. Duke Blackwood, Director, Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library; Thomas Schwartz, Ph.D., Illinois State Historian,
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Ms. Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, Chair, Board of Directors, The Roosevelt
Institute; and Martha Kumar, Ph.D., Professor, Towson
University.
Mar. 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing, ``The
Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge II: How U.S. Taxpayers are
Paying Double for Failing Government Programs.'' Witnesses:
Hon. Thomas M. Davis, III, Director of Federal Government
Affairs, Deloitte & Touche LLP; Hon. Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government
Accountability Office; and Ms. Ryan Alexander, President,
Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Mar. 8, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing,
``The Foreclosure Crisis'' at the University of MD School of
Law located at 500 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
Witnesses: Hon. Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland; Hon.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore; Mr. Mark Kaufman,
Commissioner of Financial Regulation, MD Department of Labor,
Licensing and Regulation; Mr. Kevin Jerron Matthews, Homeowner;
Ms. Jane A. Wilson, Chair, Board of Directors, St. Ambrose
Housing Aid Center, Inc.
Mar. 10, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
H.R. 899 (Lankford)--To amend title 41, United States Code, to extend
the sunset date for certain protests of task and deliver order
contracts
H.R. 899 was ordered reported favorably by voice
vote, a quorum being present.
H.R. 793 (Woolsey)--To designate the facility of the United States
Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in
Inverness, California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza
Post Office''
H.R. 793 was ordered reported favorably by
unanimous consent, a quorum being present.
H.R. 471 (Boehner)--``Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act,''
or ``SOAR Act''
1. Issa amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed to
by voice vote, a quorum being present.
2. Norton amendment in the nature of a substitute (to the
Issa amendment)--defeated by a record vote of 12 ayes to 21
noes.
Voting aye: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton,
Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Connolly, Braley, Welch, and
Murphy.
Voting no: Issa, Burton, Turner, McHenry, Jordan,
Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle,
Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy,
Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.
H.R. 471 was ordered favorably reported, as
amended, a quorum being present, by a vote of 21 ayes to 14
nays.
Voting aye: Issa, Burton, Turner, McHenry, Jordan,
Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle,
Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy,
Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.
Voting no: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton,
Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Connolly, Quigley, Braley,
Welch, Murphy, and Speier.
Mar. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled,
``The Freedom of Information Act: Crowd-Sourcing Government
Oversight.'' Witnesses: Ms. Miriam Nisbet, Director, Office of
Government Information, National Archives and Records
Administration; Mr. Daniel Metcalfe, Executive Director,
Collaboration on Government Secrecy; Mr. Rick Blum,
Coordinator, Sunshine in Government; Mr. Tom Fitton, President,
Judicial Watch; Ms. Angela Canterbury, Director of Public
Policy, Project on Open Government.
Mar. 31, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Why Isn't the Department of Homeland Security Meeting the
President's Standard on FOIA?'' Witnesses: Ms. Mary Ellen
Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, The Privacy Office, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Charles K. Edwards, Acting
Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Ivan Fong, General
Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security; Mr. John Verdi, Senior Counsel, Director of
Open Government Project, Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Apr. 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Are Postal Workforce Costs Sustainable?'' Witnesses: Hon.
Louis J. Giuliano, Chairman, U.S. Postal Service Board of
Governors; Hon. James C. Miller, III, Governor, U.S. Postal
Service Board of Governors; Hon. Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster
General and CEO, United States Postal Service; and Mr. Cliff
Guffey, President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO.
Apr. 13, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
H.R. 829 (Chaffetz)--the Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011
1. Chaffetz amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed
to by voice vote, as amended.
2. Connolly amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--defeated
by voice vote.
3. Speier amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--agreed to
by voice vote.
4. Quigley amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--ruled out-
of-order (non-germane)
5. Tierney amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--ruled out-
of-order (non-germane)
H.R. 829 was ordered reported favorably by voice
vote, as amended, a quorum being present.
H.R. 828 (Chaffetz)--the Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of
2011
1. Chaffetz amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed
to by voice vote, as amended.
2. Lynch amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--agreed to by
voice vote, as amended.
--Ch. Issa asked unanimous consent to change ``90'' to
``60'' on page 2, line 10 of the amendment. There was no
objection.
3. Davis amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--defeated by
voice vote.
H.R. 828 was ordered reported favorably, as
amended, by voice vote, a quorum being present.
H.R. 1470 (Ross-FL)--To amend title 5, U.S.C., to extend the
probationary period applicable to appointments in the civil
service, and for other purposes
1. Ross amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed to
by voice vote.
2. Connolly amendment to the Ross substitute--ruled out-of-
order (non-germane)
3. Cummings amendment to the Ross substitute--defeated by a
vote of 13 ayes to 14 noes.
Voting aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich,
Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Davis, Braley, Murphy
and Speier.
Voting no: Issa, Burton, Platts, Chaffetz, Walberg,
Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais,
Gowdy, Ross and Farenthold.
H.R. 1470 was ordered favorably reported, as
amended, a quorum being present, by a vote of 15 ayes to 14
nays.
Voting aye: Issa, Burton, McHenry, Chaffetz, Walberg,
Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais,
Gowdy, Ross, Guinta and Farenthold.
Voting no: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton,
Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Davis,
Braley, Murphy, and Speier.
** Note: Had they been present at the vote, Mr. Turner and
Mr. Walsh both would have been recorded as voting ``aye.'' By
unanimous consent, this was approved for the record.
H.R. 1423 (Cole)--To designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 115 4th Avenue Southwest in Ardmore,
Oklahoma, as the ``Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post Office''
H.R. 1423 was ordered favorably reported by
unanimous consent, a quorum being present.
Apr. 14, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead.'' Witnesses:
Hon. Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin; Hon. Peter Shumlin,
Governor of Vermont; Andrew Biggs, Ph.D., Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute; Mr. Mark Mix, President,
National Right to Work Committee; Robert Novy-Marx, Ph.D.,
Professor of Finance, University of Rochester Simon Graduate
School of Business; and Desmond Lachman, Ph.D., Resident
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
Apr. 18, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Policies Affecting High Tech Growth and Federal Adoption of
Industry Best Practices'' located at the Council Chambers of
the San Jose City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose,
CA. Witnesses: Mr. Milo Medin, Vice President for Access
Services, Google; Mr. Stuart McKee, National Technology
Officer, U.S. Public Sector, Microsoft; and Mr. Patrick
Quinlan, President, Rivet Software.
Apr. 19, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: Assessing the
Cumulative Impact of EPA Regulation on America's Farmers''
located at Salinas City Council Chambers, 200 Lincoln Avenue,
Salinas, California. Witnesses: Mr. Tom Nassif, President and
CEO, Western Growers Association; Mr. Jim Bogart, President,
Gowers/Shippers Association of Central California; Mr. Richard
R. Smith, Owner, Paraiso Vineyards; Mr. Norm Groot, Executive
Director, Monterey County Farm Bureau; Mr. Mike Jarrard, Mann
Packing Co., Inc.; Mr. Mark Murai.
Apr. 21, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Federal Policies Affecting Innovation and Job Growth in the
Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries'' located at Atkinson
Hall, the University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman
Drive, La Jolla, CA. Witnesses: David Gollaher, M.D., President
and CEO, California Healthcare Institute; Mr. Duane J. Roth,
CEO, Connect; Mr. Joseph D. Panetta, President and CEO, BIOCOM;
Mr. Alexis Lukianov, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer, NuVasive, Inc.; Ms. Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor,
University of California, San Diego.
May 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Presidential Records in the New Millennium: Updating the
Presidential Records Act and Other Federal Recordkeeping
Statutes to Improve Electronic Records Preservation.''
Witnesses: Hon. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United
States, National Archives and Records Administration; Mr. Brook
Colangelo, Chief Information Officer, Office of Administration,
Executive Office of the President.
May 6, 2011, 10:00 a.m.-- Full Committee field hearing
entitled, ``Pathways To Energy Independence: Hydraulic
Fracturing And Other New Technologies,'' held at the Kern
County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1115 Truxtun Avenue,
Bakersfield, California. Witnesses: Assemblywoman Shannon
Grove, 32nd District of California; Mr. Rock Zierman, CEO,
California Independent Petroleum Association; William F.
Whitsitt, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Devon Energy; Mr.
Steve Layton, President, E&B Natural Resources Management
Corporation; and Mr. Tupper Hull, Vice President Western States
Petroleum Association.
May 10, 2011, 12:30 p.m.-- Full Committee hearing entitled,
``The Future of Capital Formation.'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
Ms. Meredith Cross, Director of the Division of Corporation
Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. Barry E.
Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Second Market,
Inc.; Mr. Eric Koester, Chief Operation Officer and Founder,
Zaarly, Inc.; Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Cato
Institute; Mr. Jon Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate
Law, Securities Law and Corporate Finance, Yale Law School;
Hon. Roel Campos, Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP.
May 12, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Politicizing Procurement: Will President Obama's Proposal
Curb Free Speech & Hurt Small Business?'' Witnesses: The
Honorable Daniel Gordon, Administrator for Office of Federal
Procurement Policy, OMB; Mr. Alan Chvotkin, Senior Vice
President, Professional Services Counsel; Mr. Mark Renaud,
Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP; Ms. M.L. Mackey, CEO, Beacon
Interactive Systems; Ms. Lawrie Hollingsworth, President, Asset
Recovery Technologies, Inc.; Mrs. Marion Blakey, President and
CEO, Aerospace Industries Association; Mr. Brad Smith,
Professor Capital University Law School.
May 24, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled,
``Pain at the Pump: Policies that Suppress Domestic Production
of Oil and Gas.'' Witnesses: Hon. Lisa P. Jackson,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and Hon. David
J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior.
SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD
Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy
Mar. 2, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce,
U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing, ``Pushing the
Envelope: The Looming Crisis at USPS.'' Witnesses: Hon. Patrick
Donahoe, Postmaster General, USPS; Ms. Ruth Goldway, Chair,
Postal Regulatory Commission; Mr. Phil Herr, Director, Physical
Infrastructure Issues, U.S. GAO; Jim Sampey, Executive Vice
President and Chief Operations Officer, Valpak; Mr. Arthor
Sackler, Coordinator, Coalition for a 21st Century Postal
Service; and Mr. Frederic Rolando, Director of Legislative and
Political Affairs, National Association of Letter Carriers
(AFL-CIO).
Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing, ``Are
Federal Workers Underpaid?'' Witnesses: Hon. John Berry,
Director, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. Andrew Biggs,
Ph.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Mr.
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, The
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Max Stier, President, Partnership for
Public Service; and Ms. Colleen Kelley, National President,
National Treasury Employees Union.
Apr. 13, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing
entitled, ``Federal Employees' Compensation Act: A Fair
Approach?'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary Steinberg, Acting Director,
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of
Labor; Mr. Douglas Fitzgerald, Director, Division of Federal
Employees' Compensation, U.S. Department of Labor; Mr. Bill
Siemer, Assistant IG for Investigations, USPS; Ms. Lisa
McManus, President and CEO, Contract Claim Services, Inc., Ms.
Milagros Rodriguez, Occupational Health and Safety Specialist,
AMGE.
May 12, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce,
U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy hearing entitled, ``Where
Have All the Letters Gone?--The Mailing Industry and Its
Future.'' Witnesses: Mr. Dave Riebe, President of Logistics and
Distribution, Quad/Graphics; Mr. Jerry Cerasale, Senior Vice
President, Government Affairs, Direct Marketing Association;
Mr. Rob Melton, Vice President of Specialty Paper, Domtar; and
Mr. Todd Haycock, Director, Postal Services, 3i Infotech, North
America.
May 26, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on the Federal
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing
entitled, ``Rightsizing the Federal Workforce.'' Witnesses:
Hon. Cynthia M. Lummis, U.S. House of Representatives; Hon.
Thomas Marino, U.S. House of Representatives; Mr. Andrew G.
Biggs, Resident Scholar, AEI; and Mr. William R. Dougan,
National President, National Federation of Federal Employees.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION EFFICIENCY AND FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
Feb. 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing,
``Making Sense of the Numbers: Improving the Federal Financial
Reporting Model.'' Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Allen, Chairman, The
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board; Mr. Jonathan D.
Breul, Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business of
Government; Mr. Michael J. Hettinger, Executive Director, Grant
Thornton LLP.
Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing, ``A
Look at the FY10 Consolidated Financial Report of the U.S.
Government.'' Witnesses: Hon. Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller
General of the United States, U.S. GAO; Hon. Daniel I. Werfel,
Controller, Office of Management and Budget; and Hon. Richard
L. Gregg, Fiscal Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the
Treasury.
Mar. 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee
on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private
Programs and the Subcommittee on Government Organization,
Efficiency and Financial Management entitled, ``Financial
management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: Who's
Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
Mr. Jeffrey Risinger, Director, Office of Human Resources, SEC;
Mr. Jonathan Katz, Former Secretary, SEC; Mr. Stephen J.
Crimmins, K & L Gates, LLP; Ms. Helen Chairman, Attorney at
Law, Baker and Poliakoff, LLP.
Mar. 11, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing
entitled, ``Red to Black: Improving Collection of Delinquent
Debt Owed to the Government.'' Witness: David Lebryk,
Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Department of the
Treasury.
Apr. 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing
entitled, ``Improper Payments: Finding Solutions.'' Witnesses:
Hon. Daniel Werfel, Controller, OMB; and Ms. Kay L. Daly,
Director, Financial Management and Assurance, U.S. GAO.
May 13, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management hearing
entitled, ``Financial Management at the Department of Homeland
Security.'' Witnesses: Ms. Peggy Sherry, Deputy Chief Financial
Officer and Acting CFO, DHS.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, CENSUS AND THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Mar. 1, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care,
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing
entitled, ``The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program: Keeping
the Door Open.'' Witnesses: Mr. Ronald Holassie, Senior, Bishop
Carroll High School; Ms. Lesly Alvarez, 8th Grader, Sacred
Heart School; Ms. Sheila Jackson, Mother of DC OSP Student; Ms.
Latasha Bennett, Mother of DC OSP Student; Mr. Kevin Chavous,
Chairman, Black Alliance for Education Options; Patrick Wolf,
Ph.D., University of Arkansas; Ms. Betty North, Principal and
CEO, Preparatory School of D.C.; and Ramona Edelin, Executive
Director, D.C. Association of Public Charter Schools.
Mar. 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care,
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing
entitled, ``Obamacare: Why the Need for Waivers?'' Witnesses:
Mr. Steven B. Larsen, J.D., Deputy Administrator and Director,
Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mr. Edmund F.
Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy
Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Scoot Wold, Esq.,
Shareholder, Hitesman & Wold, P.A.; and Ms. Judy Feder, Ph.D.,
Professor, Georgetown University.
Apr. 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, D.C.,
Census and the National Archives hearing entitled, ``Waste,
Abuse and Mismanagement in Government Health Care.'' Witnesses:
Ms. Deborah Taylor, CFO, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services; Peter Budetti, M.D., Deputy Administrator for Program
Integrity, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mr. Gerald
T. Roy, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, Office of
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services; Hon. Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York; Mr. David Botsko, Inspector General,
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System; Ms. Jean
MacQuarrie, Vice President for Client Services, Thomson
Reuters; Mr. Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies,
Cato Institute; and Ms. Rachel Klein, Deputy Director for
Health Policy, Families USA.
May 12, 2011, 8:45 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care,
District of Columbia, Census, and the National Archives hearing
entitled, ``The District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget:
Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability.'' Witnesses: Hon. Vincent Gray,
Mayor, District of Columbia; Hon. Kwame Brown, Chairman, D.C.
City Council; Natwar Gandhi, Ph.D., Chief Financial Officer,
District of Columbia; Mr. Matt Fabian, Managing Director,
Municipal Market Advisors; and Alice Rivlin, Ph.D., Brookings
Institution.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, HOMELAND DEFENSE AND FOREIGN
OPERATIONS
Mar. 2, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security,
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing, ``U.S.
Military Leaving Iraq: Is the State Department Ready?''
Witnesses: Mr. Grant S. Green, Commissioner, Commission on
Wartime Contracting; Mr. Michael Thibault, Co-Chair, Commission
on Wartime Contracting; Mr. Stuart Bowen, jr., Special
Inspector General, Office of the Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction; Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, Under
Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of State; Ambassador
Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary for International
Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Frank
Kendall, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition,
Technology and Logistics, U.S. Department of Defense.
Mar. 16, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing,
``TSA Oversight Part 1: Whole Body Imaging.'' Witnesses: Hon.
Sharon Cissna, Representative, Alaska State House of
Representatives; Mr. Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director,
Electronic Privacy Information Center; Mr. Fred H. Cate, Senior
Policy Advisor, Centre for Information Policy Leadership,
Hunton & Williams; David J. Brenner, Ph.D., Center for
Radiological Research, Columbia University; Mr. Stewart A.
Baker, Partner, Steptoe and Johnson, LLP; Mr. Lee Kair,
Assistant Administrator for Security Operations, TSA; and Mr.
Robin E. Kane, Assistant Administrator for Security Technology,
TSA.
Apr. 14, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing
entitled, ``Tsunami Warning, Preparedness, and Interagency
Cooperation: Lessons Learned.'' Witnesses: William Leith,
Ph.D., Acting Associate Director for National Hazards, U.S.
Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior; Mr. Kenneth
D. Murphy, Regional Administrator--Region X, FEMA; Ms. Mary
Glackin, Dep. Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S.
Department of Commerce; Mr. John W. Madden, Director, Division
of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, State of Alaska;
and Ms. Nancy Ward, Regional Adminstrator, FEMA.
Apr. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations and Natural
Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands joint hearing entitled, ``The Border: Are
Environmental Laws and Regulations Impeding Security and
Harming the Environment?'' Witnesses: Hon. Silvestre Reyes,
Member of Congress; Mr. Ronald Vitiello, Deputy Chief, U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; Ms. Kim Thorsen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law
Enforcement, Security and Emergency Management, U.S. Department
of the Interior; Mr. Jay Jensen, Deputy Under Secretary for
Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of
Agriculture; Mr. George Zachary Taylor, National Association of
Former Border Patrol Officers; Mr. Gene Wood, National
Association of Former Border Patrol Officers; Mr. Jim Chilton,
Chilton Ranch; and Ms. Anu Mittal, Director, Natural Resources
and Environment, U.S. GAO.
May 4, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security,
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled, ``Is
This Any Way to Treat Our Troops? Part III: Transition
Delays.'' Witnesses: Mr. John Medve, Executive Director, VA/DOD
Collaboration Service, U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs;
Mr. Dan Bertoni, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income
Security, U.S. GAO; Ms. Lynn Simpson, Acting Principal Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, U.S.
Department of Defense; Mr. Mark Bird, IT Team Assistant
Director, U.S. GAO; and Mr. Randall B. Williamson, Health Care
Team Director, U.S. GAO.
May 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security,
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled,
``USAID: Following the Money.'' Witnesses: Hon. Rajiv Shah,
Administrator, U.S. AID; and Hon. Donald Gambatesa, IG, U.S.
AID.
May 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security,
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled,
``Cybersecurity: Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United
States.'' Witnesses: Rear Admiral Michael A. Brown, Director,
Cybersecurity Coordination, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; Mr. James A. Lewis, Director of Technology and Public
Policy Program, CSIS; Mr. Sean McGurk, Director, National
Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Dean Turner, Director,
Global Intelligence Network Symantec Security Response; Mr.
Phillip Bond, President, TechAmerica.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON REGULATORY AFFAIRS, STIMULUS OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT
SPENDING
Feb. 16, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing,
``The Stimulus: Two Years Later.'' Witnesses: John Taylor,
Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Russell
Roberts, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Mercatus Center, George
Mason University; Christina Romer, Ph.D., Professor of
Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Jared
Bernstein, Ph.D., Office of the Vice President, The White
House; J.D. Foster, Ph.D., Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the
Economic of Fiscal Policy, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Alex
Brill, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Mr.
Andrew Busch, Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist, BMO
Capital Markets Investment Banking Division; Mr. Chris Edwards,
Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Josh Bivens,
Ph.D., Economic Policy Institute.
Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing,
``Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Regulation on U.S.
Manufacturers.'' Witnesses: Mr. Aris Papadopolous, CEO and
Chairman, Portland Cement Association; Ms. Donna Harman, CEO,
American Forest and Paper Association; Mr. Michael P. Walls,
Vice President, Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American
Chemistry Council; Mr. Michael Kamnikar, Senior Vice President,
Forging Industry Association, Ellwood Group; Mr. Bernard
Schimmel, Vice President, Technical Services, Boral Bricks,
Inc.; and Mr. David C. Foerter, Executive Director, Institute
of Clean Air Companies (ICAC).
Mar. 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing,
``Project Labor Agreements and the Cost of Doing Business in
the Construction Industry.'' Witnesses: Mr. John Ennis, CEO,
Ennis Electric, Inc.; Ms. Linda Figg, FIGG Engineering Group;
Dale Belman, Ph.D., MSU School of Industrial and Labor
Relations; Mr. John Biagas, Bay Electric Inc.; Mr. Maurice
Baskin, American Builders and Contractors, Inc.; Mr. Daniel
Gordon, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy,
Executive Office of the President; Mr. Robert Peck,
Commissioner of Public Buildings, GSA; and David Michaels,
Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Occupational Health and Safety,
U.S. Department of Labor.
Apr. 6, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government hearing entitled,
``Assessing the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Regulations on Small
Business.'' Witnesses: Mr. Joe Rajkovacz, Director of
Regulatory Affairs, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers
Association; David Kreutzer, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Energy
Economics and Climate Change, The Heritage Foundation; Mr.
David D. Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, Natural
Resources Defense Council; Mr. Keith Holman, Deputy Executive
Director, National Lime Association; Ms. Gina McCarthy,
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation,
U.S. EPA; and Ms. Claudia Rodgers, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office
of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration.
Apr. 20, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing
entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in the
Northeast Part I'' located at Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus
Avenue, Irondequoit, NY. Witnesses: Mr. Mike Medina, President,
Optimax; Ms. Rebecca A. Meinking, Executive Vice President,
Radec Corporation; Mr. Bill Pollock, CEO, Optimation; Mrs.
Cathy Martin, President, Monroe County Farm Bureau; Mr.
Jonathan L. Taylor, Oakridge Dairy; Mr. John Teeple, Teeple
Farms, Inc.; Ms. Jolene Bender, Supervisor, Town of Marion; Ms.
Maggie Brooks, Monroe County Executive; and Sheriff Barry
Virts, Wayne County.
Apr. 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing
entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in the
Northeast Part II'' located at South Side Innovation Center,
2610 S. Salina Street, Syracuse, NY. Witnesses: Mr. Jud Gostin,
President, Sensis Corporation; Mr. Steve Lefebvre, President,
Empire ABC; Mr. Andrew Reeves, Owner, Reeves Farms; Mrs. Nancy
Hourigan, Owner, Hourigan's Dairy Farm; Mr. Tom DeMarree,
Owner, Demree Orchards; Mr. Orrin MacMurray, Chairman, C & S
Companies; Mr. Travis Glazier, Director of Intergovernmental
Relations, Onondaga County Executive; and Mr. Thomas Squires,
Cayuga County Administrator.
May 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing
entitled, ``How Federal Reserve Policies Add to Hard Times at
the Pump.'' Witnesses: Mr. Vincent R. Reinhart, Resident
Scholar, AEI; Robert Murphy, Ph.D., Economist, Institute for
Energy Research; Dean Baker, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for
Economic Policy Research; Mr. Greg Wannemacher, President,
Wannemacher Total Logistics; and Ms. Karen Kerrigan, President
and CEO, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TARP, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND BAILOUTS OF PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE PROGRAMS
Feb. 9, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing,
``State and Municipal Debt: The Coming Crisis?'' Witnesses: Ms.
Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute; Mr. David Skeel, S. Samuel
Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania
Law School; Ms. Eileen Norcross, Mercatus Center, George Mason
University; Ms. Iris J. Lav, Senior Advisor, Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities.
Mar. 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee
on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private
Programs and the Subcommittee on Government Organization,
Efficiency and Financial Management entitled, ``Financial
Management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: Who's
Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
Mr. Jeffrey Risinger, Director, Office of Human Resources, SEC;
Mr. Jonathan Katz, Former Secretary, SEC; Mr. Stephen J.
Crimmins, K & L Gates, LLP; Ms. Helen Chairman, Attorney at
Law, Baker and Poliakoff, LLP.
Mar. 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing
entitled, ``State and Municipal Debt: The Coming Crisis? Part
II.'' Witnesses: Hon. Daniel Liljenquist, Utah State Senator;
Ms. Robin Prunty, Managing Director, Standard & Poor's; Dean
Baker, Ph.D., Center for Economic Policy and Research; Mr.
Robert Kurtter, Moody's Investors' Service; and Andrew Biggs,
Ph.D., The American Enterprise Institute.
Mar. 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing,
``Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to Fail?'' Witnesses: Hon. Neil
Barofsky, Special IG for TARP; and Hon. Tim Massad, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability and Chief Counsel,
U.S. Department of the Treasury.
May 11, 2011, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing
entitled, ``Transparency as an Alternative to the Federal
Government's Regulation of Risk Retention.'' Witnesses: Mr.
Edward DeMarco, Acting Director, Federal Housing Finance
Agency; Anthony B. Sanders, Ph.D., Professor, George Mason
University; Mr. Joshua Rosner, Managing Director, Graham Fisher
& Co., Inc.; and Ms. Janneke Ratcliffe, Executive Director,
Center for Community Capital, UNC.
May 24, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing
entitled, ``Who's Watching the Watchmen? Oversight of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.'' Witnesses: Hon.
Elizabeth Warren, Special Advisor to the Secretary of the
Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Mr. Todd
Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University;
David S. Evans, Ph.D., Chairman, Global Economics Group; Mr.
Adam Levitin, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Law Center; and Mr. Andrew Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe &
Maw, LLP.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION POLICY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL
RELATIONS AND PROCUREMENT REFORM
Feb. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology,
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement
Reform hearing, ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach.''
Witnesses: Mayor Patrice Douglas, City of Edmond, OK; Ms. Susan
Dudley, George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center;
Ms. Denise M. Fantone, Director, Strategic Issues, U.S. GAO;
Mr. Anthony H. Griffin, County Executive, Fairfax County, VA.
Mar. 11, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology,
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement
Reform hearing, ``Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating
Federal Open-Government Initiatives.'' Witnesses: Ms. Ellen
Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation; Danny Harris,
Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education;
Mr. Christopher L. Smith, Chief Information Officer, U.S.
Department of Agriculture; Mr. Jerry Brito, Senior Research
Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; and Hon.
Danny Werfel, Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management, OMB.
Mar. 30, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology,
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement
hearing, ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach Part
II.'' Witnesses: Hon. Joni Cutler, South Dakota State Senator;
Mr. Raymond J. Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business &
Entrepreneurship Council; and Mr. John C. Arensmeyer, Founder
and CEO, Small Business Majority.
Apr. 7, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology,
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement
Reform hearing entitled, ``Regulatory Barriers to American
Indian Job Creation.'' Witnesses: Ms. Mary L. Kendall, Acting
Inspector General, Department of the Interior; Ms. Anu K.
Mittal, Director, Natural Resources and Environment Team, U.S.
GAO; Ms. Patricia Douville, Council Member, Rosebud Sioux
Tribe; and Hon. Ron Allen, Chairman, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
May 25, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology,
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement
Reform entitled, ``Unfunded Mandates, Regulatory Burdens and
the Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.''
Witness: Hon. Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of
Information Regulatory Affairs, OMB.
III. Summary of Committee Oversight Plan
Pursuant to Rule X, Clause 2(d) of the Rules of the House,
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the 112th
Congress adopted the following plan to guide the work of its
subcommittees and the full committee. Because of the
Committee's role as the principal oversight body of the federal
government and its mandate to investigate ``any matter at any
time,'' this plan did not preclude oversight and investigation
of other matters of importance to the American people.
The Committee's adopted plan indicates oversight in several
sectors, including:
Government Spending and Economic Stimulus--
including the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and other
economic stimulus programs.
Financial Sector Regulation--including the
implementation of Dodd-Frank, reviewing the FCIC, the creation
of the CFBP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the
recommendations of the Special Inspector General, including the
failure of the Home Affordable Mortgage Program, and the
Federal Housing Finance Agency's oversight of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac.
Consumer Protection--including abuses by the
mortgage industry which, coupled with high unemployment and a
stagnant economy, have contributed to the foreclosure crisis.
Government Watchdogs--including the effectiveness
of federal government inspectors general and their freedom from
political interference, and ensuring the independence and
integrity of the Government Accountability Office, and the
federal government's actions on the recommendations in their
biannual High Risk Series and their new annual list of
duplicative, overlapping, and fractured federal programs.
Federal Financial Management--including the record
$125 billion in improper payments made in 2010, growth in non-
tax debt owed to the Federal Government, the persistent
inability of many federal agencies to achieve a clean audit,
and a comprehensive detailed review of financial management
systems in place in the Federal Government.
Federal Real Property Disposal--including the
proposal to use a Base Realignment and Closure style initiative
to reduce the federal deficit by disposing of excess property.
Government Contracting--including the transition
from primarily Department of Defense personnel to Department of
State support in Iraq, and the inclusion of mandated Project
Labor Agreements in federal construction contracts.
Open Government and Transparency--including
federal spending data accuracy, grant reform, the
implementation of the Government Performance and Review Act and
Performance.gov, compliance with the Presidential Records Act
and the Federal Records Act and the need to update those acts
to keep up with technology, political travel and the Hatch Act,
allegations of political interference with the Freedom of
Information Act, and a government-wide review of FOIA backlogs
and agency efforts to eliminate them.
Technology Policy--including the Committee's
ongoing oversight of the Federal Information Security
Management Act, and the emergence of a federal cybersecurity
policy.
Federal Regulation and the Regulatory Process--
including updating and strengthening the Unfunded Mandates
Review Act of 1995, reviewing the role of the White House
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in rulemaking, and
initiating a government-wide and economy-wide review of
regulatory impediments to job creation, and soliciting input
from the private sector.
Domestic Energy Production--including actions
taken by the Federal Government that have impeded the
development of domestic energy resources, including actions
taken to discourage the use of new and newly deployed
technologies, allegations of mismanagement and abuse at the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the reorganization of the Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement, and the
Administration's moratorium on issuing oil drilling permits in
the Gulf.
EPA Regulatory Actions and Litigation--including
the adequacy of the economic analysis of proposed rules,
enforcement and permitting decisions made by the Agency, and
the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
Healthcare and Drug Policy--including systemic
problems with medical device approval, prevalence of fraud and
abuse in Medicaid and Medicare, impediments faced by the
biotech industry, food safety, the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, and the issuance of waivers to companies and
states struggling to comply with provisions of the Affordable
Care Act and other implementation issues.
District of Columbia--including the District's use
of federal education funds and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship
Program, D.C. fiscal management, and general oversight of the
D.C. government.
Information Policy--including the Census, the
National Archives and Records Administration, the Presidential
Library System, and the future of the Presidential Records Act.
Federal Workforce Policies--including pay and
benefits, the use of ``official time'' to conduct union
activities, and the appropriate size of the workforce.
United States Postal Service--focusing on policies
that will address the actual long-term fiscal sustainability of
USPS and avoid a taxpayer bailout.
National Security and Foreign Operations--
including the Department of Defense to State transition in
Iraq, waste and mismanagement at USAID, and the growing delays
in the transition process from DOD to Veterans Affairs health
care systems for wounded warriors.
Homeland Security--including ongoing problems with
financial management, operations and decision-making at the
Department of Homeland Security, and policies regarding privacy
and security at airports and the effectiveness of the
Transportation Security Administration.
IV. Summary of Actions Taken and Recommendations Made With Respect to
the Oversight Plan
Stimulus Spending--The Subcommittee on Regulatory
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending held a
hearing on the two-year anniversary of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus bill) to examine the effects
of the stimulus on the economy after two years. During ``The
Stimulus: Two Years Later'' hearing, economists and policy
experts from a wide range of universities and public policy
institutes testified about the results of the stimulus.
Economist Russell Roberts at George Mason University summed up
the views of the majority of the panel when he declared in his
testimony that ``the results have been deeply disappointing.''
Financial Sector Regulation--In January, the full
Committee held a hearing entitled ``Bailouts and the
Foreclosure Crisis: Report of the Special Inspector General for
the Troubled Asset Relief Program'' and heard testimony from
Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset
Relief Program (TARP). In his testimony he concluded that ``the
Home Affordable Modification Program (``HAMP'')--has been beset
by problems from the outset and, despite frequent retooling,
continues to fall dramatically short of any meaningful standard
of success.'' In late March, the Subcommittee on TARP,
Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs
held a hearing entitled ``Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to
Fail?'' Mr. Barofsky testified that the costs of TARP included
``the increased moral hazard and potentially disastrous
consequences associated with the continued existence of
financial institutions that are too big to fail.'''
Additionally in March, the TARP Subcommittee held a joint
hearing with the Subcommittee on Government Organization,
Efficiency and Financial Management on the state of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), entitled ``Financial
Management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: Who's
Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' where the subcommittees
heard from SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, as well as other
current and former SEC officials. In May, the Subcommittee on
TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private
Programs held a hearing, entitled ``Who's Watching the
Watchmen? Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.'' The Subcommittee heard testimony from Elizabeth
Warren, Assistant to the President, and Special Advisor to the
Secretary of the Treasury, along with several experts from
universities and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about the new
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Consumer Protection--On March 8, the full
Committee held its first field hearing in Baltimore, MD,
entitled ``The Foreclosure Crisis.'' The Committee took
testimony from Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Baltimore
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mark Kaufman of the Maryland
Commission on Financial Regulation, Jane Wilson from the St.
Ambrose Housing Aid Center, and Iraq war veteran Kevin
Matthews, who was illegally locked out of his home when his
bank prematurely moved forward on a foreclosure.
Government Watchdogs--In mid February the full
Committee held a hearing entitled ``Waste and Abuse: The Refuse
of the Federal Spending Binge'' during which the Committee
heard from the Comptroller of the United States and several
private sector witnesses about the 2011 Government
Accountability Office's High Risk List (an ongoing series of
GAO reports that detail the highest risk and most problematic
programs in the federal government). In early March the Full
Committee held another hearing entitled ``The Refuse of the
Federal Spending Binge II: How U.S. Taxpayers are Paying Double
for Failing Government Programs'' that examined a new report by
the GAO focusing on duplicative federal government programs.
Federal Financial Management--In March, the
Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and
Financial Management held a hearing entitled, ``A Look at the
FY2010 Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S.
Government'' during which the Comptroller General of the United
States testified that ``three major impediments continued to
prevent GAO from rendering an opinion on the Federal
Government's accrual-based consolidated financial statements''
including ``financial management problems at the Department of
Defense'' and ``the Federal Government's ineffective process
for preparing the consolidated financial statements.'' The
Subcommittee held several other hearings on federal financial
management, including ``Making Sense of the Numbers: Improving
the Federal Financial Reporting Model,'' ``A Look at the FY2010
Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government,''
``Improper Payments: Finding Solutions,'' and ``Financial
Management at the Department of Homeland Security.''
Federal Real Property Disposal--In May, Chairman
Issa sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
asking for an estimate of President Obama's ``Civilian Property
Realignment Act.''
Government Contracting--The Subcommittee on
National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations
conducted a hearing entitled ``U.S. Military Leaving Iraq: Is
the State Department Ready?'' Several officials from the
Departments of State and Defense testified, as well as
commissioners from the Commission on Wartime Contracting in
Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the Commissioners, Grant Green,
testified that ``this hearing poses the question, `U.S.
Military Leaving Iraq: Is the State Department Ready?' The
short answer is `no,' and the short reason for that answer is
that establishing and sustaining an expanded U.S. diplomatic
presence in Iraq will require State to take on thousands of
additional contractor employees that it has neither funds to
pay nor resources to manage.''
Open Government and Transparency--In late March,
the full Committee held a hearing entitled, ``Why Isn't the
Department of Homeland Security Meeting the President's
Standard on FOIA?'' and issued a staff report entitled ``A New
Era of Openness? How and Why Political Staff at DHS Interfered
with the FOIA Process'' to determine why DHS was not following
President Obama's promise of more openness and transparency.
Chairman Issa began the hearing by outlining DHS's FOIA
problems, saying ``now two full years into the Obama
administration, Congressional investigators have uncovered
evidence that career FOIA professionals at DHS have been
compromised in their statutory compliance by the intrusion of
DHS political staff into the department's FOIA procedures.''
The Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy,
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform held a
hearing in March to examine how technology could be used to
create transparency entitled ``Transparency Through Technology:
Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives.''
Technology Policy--In May, the National Security,
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations Subcommittee held a
hearing, ``Cybersecurity: Assessing the Immediate Threat to the
United States'' to examine cybersecurity. Several private
sector witnesses testified, as well as Sean McGurk from the
National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland
Security, who informed the Subcommittee that ``The United
States confronts a combination of known and unknown
vulnerabilities, strong and rapidly expanding adversary
capabilities, and a lack of comprehensive threat and
vulnerability awareness.''
Federal Regulation and the Regulatory Process--
From the beginning of the 112th Congress, excessive federal
regulation and the regulatory process hindering job creation
has been a priority of the Committee, and the Committee held a
series of hearings on the subject. In February, the full
Committee held a hearing entitled ``Regulatory Impediments to
Job Creation'' during which the Committee heard from a variety
of business leaders and policy experts. The Committee also
released a 97 page staff report entitled ``Assessing Regulatory
Impediments to Job Creation'' to document specific examples of
government regulations that businesses say hinder job creation.
In April, the Committee held a field hearing in San Jose,
California on ``Policies Affecting High Tech Growth and Federal
Adoption of Industry Best Practices.'' The Committee heard from
several leaders in the tech industry about how government
regulations affect their businesses, including Google and
Microsoft. The full Committee held two more hearings on federal
regulation in April entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job
Creation: Assessing The Cumulative Impact of EPA Regulation on
Farmers'' and ``Federal Policies Affecting Innovation and Job
Growth In the Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries.'' The
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and
Government Spending also held a series of hearings on the
topic: ``Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Regulation on U.S.
Manufacturers,'' ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: The
Cost of Doing Business in the Construction Industry,''
``Assessing the Impact of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations on
Small Business,'' ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in
the Northeast Part I,'' and ``Regulatory Impediments to Job
Creation in the Northeast Part II.'' Additionally, the
Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy,
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform held several
hearings on the subject: ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory
Overreach,'' ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach Part
II,'' and ``Regulatory Barriers to American Indian Job
Creation.''
Domestic Energy Production--In May, the full
Committee held a hearing entitled ``Pain at the Pump: Policies
that Suppress Domestic Production of Oil and Gas'' where EPA
Administrator Lisa Jackson testified. The Committee also
released a staff report the same day entitled ``Impact of
Statements by President, Energy Secretary about Raising Energy
Costs on Americans Seen in Administration Policies.'' Chairman
Darrell Issa introduced the hearing by stating that ``the
United States has the largest reserves in the world--resources
that can provide good-paying American jobs and fuel our
economic expansion. Standing between that energy and U.S.
consumers is an obstacle course of government red tape,
regulation, delays and obfuscations.'' In May, the full
Committee held a field hearing in Bakersfield, California
entitled, ``Pathways to Energy Independence: Hydraulic
Fracturing and Other New Technologies.'' Also in May, the
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and
Government Spending held a hearing on ``How Federal Reserve
Policies Add to Hard Times at the Pump'' to determine how
actions of the Federal Reserve increase the price of gas for
consumers.
EPA Regulatory Actions and Litigation--The full
Committee held a field hearing in Salinas, California, on
``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: Assessing The
Cumulative Impact of EPA Regulation on Farmers'' where the
Committee heard from a variety of farmers and small business
leaders about how EPA rules hinder job creation. Richard Smith,
the owner of Paraiso Vineyards, told the Committee
``legislators presumably intend to codify good ideas.
Unfortunately, most legislation is followed by regulatory fiats
by unelected boards and/or staff; these subsequent `rules'
often complicate and/or compromise the original good
intentions.'' The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus
Oversight and Government Spending held a hearing entitled,
``Assessing the Impact of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations on
Small Businesses.'' During the hearing, Keith Holman, Deputy
Executive Director of the National Lime Association,
highlighted the negative effects of EPA regulations on small
business owners when he stated that ``while the GHG rules took
effect only three months ago, we already see a chilling effect
on lime companies' plans to modernize or expand their plants
because of the great uncertainty surrounding GHG permitting.
This in turn makes it less likely that lime companies will
create new jobs.''
Healthcare and Drug Policy--The Subcommittee on
Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National
Archives held a hearing entitled, ``Obamacare: Why the Need for
Waivers'' in mid-March to examine the process by which the
Administration awards waivers to exempt certain companies from
the new healthcare law. Chairman Trey Gowdy began the hearing
by asking in his opening statement ``in light of over 1000
companies requesting waivers from the burdens of this law, what
did the President mean when he said, `if you like your health
insurance, you can keep it' and where are the failings of this
law that necessitate a waivers process?'' The Subcommittee then
heard from several experts. In April, the Subcommittee held a
hearing on government-run healthcare programs entitled ``Waste,
Abuse and Mismanagement in Government Healthcare'' during which
the Subcommittee heard from a variety of public and private
sector experts at the federal and state level about government
healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Information Policy--The full Committee held a
joint hearing in February with the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure entitled ``America's Presidential Libraries:
Their Mission and Their Future'' at which the Archivist of the
United States and several directors of individual presidential
libraries testified about the services that presidential
libraries provide to Americans. The full Committee also held a
hearing on ``Presidential Records in the New Millennium:
Updating the Presidential Records Act and Other Federal
Recordkeeping Statutes to Improve Electronic Records
Preservation.'' The Archivist of the United States and the
Chief Information Officer of the White House Office of
Administration testified about possible improvements to the
Presidential Records Act that could arise from current
technological advances.
The District of Columbia--The D.C. Subcommittee
held a hearing in March on the District of Columbia Opportunity
Scholarship Program (DCOSP). The DCOSP's authorization ended in
2009, and the doors were closed to new entrants. In fact, 216
students who had been offered scholarships had those offers
revoked. Subcommittee Chairman Gowdy took testimony from
parents and students affected by the end of the successful
DCOSP. In May, the subcommittee held a hearing on the fiscal
sustainability of the D.C. budget. Testimony was heard from
Mayor Gray, Council Chairman Kwame Brown, former control board
chairwoman Alice Rivlin, and D.C. Chief Financial Officer
Natwar Gandhi.
Federal Workforce--The Subcommittee on Federal
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy held three
hearings exploring issues affecting the federal workforce. At
the March 9, 2011 hearing entitled, ``Are Federal Workers
Overpaid?'' Chairman Dennis Ross made it clear that ``the
Members of this Subcommittee recognize that our talented
federal workforce performs critically essential missions
throughout the government, on behalf of our nation. We
appreciate their service.'' Ross also noted that despite the
fact that the President had declared a two-year pay freeze,
roughly $1 billion worth of pay increases would be handed out
each year due to the practice of ``step'' or ``time-in-grade''
increases awarded purely on tenure. At that hearing, the
Subcommittee heard testimony from John Berry, director of the
Office of Personnel Management. Berry argued that those step
increases were necessary for employee retention, and promised
to work with subcommittee Chairman Ross and full committee
Chairman Issa to evaluate that policy. After the hearing, Ross
and Issa requested that GAO conduct a comprehensive pay and
benefit survey to answer key questions in dispute about the
comparability of federal employee and private sector pay. An
April 13th hearing examined the Federal Employee Compensation
Act, the ``workers' compensation'' system used by federal
agencies and the U.S. Postal Service, which has been criticized
for keeping some workers on its system who are long since
eligible for retirement. The Subcommittee found broad consensus
amongst agency IGs for reform of the system. In May, the
Subcommittee examined several proposals to reduce the size of
the federal workforce through attrition, bringing Rep. Cynthia
Lummis of Wyoming, and Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania before
the committee to testify. After examining these and other
proposals at the hearing, Chairman Issa, Chairman Ross, and
National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz,
introduced H.R. 2114, a bill to reduce the size of the federal
workforce by 10% by the year 2015 through attrition.
United States Postal Service--The Full Committee
and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service,
and Labor Policy conducted oversight of the United States
Postal Service, regarding fiscal sustainability and the
prevention of a dollar for dollar taxpayer-funded bailout. The
Subcommittee held a hearing in March with newly appointed
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, Postal Regulatory
Commission Chair Ruth Goldway, and postal industry experts to
discuss what the Subcommittee called the ``Looming Crisis at
USPS.'' The Subcommittee identified the key concern with the
fiscal health of USPS-workforce costs represented 80% of
expenses. Donahoe returned to testify to the Full Committee on
April 5, 2011, at a hearing examining the sustainability of
those costs in light of the recently signed contract with the
largest postal union, the American Postal Workers Union. The
Subcommittee also held a hearing featuring testimony from the
businesses that make up the rest of the postal industry. The
Committee is working on legislation that will allow USPS to
return to fiscal sustainability and avoid a taxpayer funded
bailout.
National Security and Foreign Operations--In May,
the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and
Foreign Operations continued a series of hearings on issues in
wounded warrior care that examined the transition of members of
the military who are wounded in action from the Department of
Defense to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Subcommittee
heard testimony from officials at the Departments of Defense
and Veterans Affairs as well as the GAO which had uncovered
problems in the transition of members of the military between
the two departments. In May, the Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations held a
hearing entitled, ``USAID: Following the Money'' to examine how
efficiently USAID uses federal funds. Rajiv Shah, Administrator
of USAID, and Donald Gambatesa, Inspector General for USAID
testified before the Subcommittee.
Homeland Security--The Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations held a
hearing in March on the use of full body scanners by the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in airports. The
Subcommittee received testimony from several experts in the
private sector, as well as two TSA administrators. The
Subcommittee also heard testimony from Sharon Cissna, a member
of the Alaska State House of Representatives, and a repeated
victim of invasive TSA searches. In April, the Subcommittee
held a hearing entitled, ``Tsunami Warning, Preparedness and
Interagency Cooperation: Lessons Learned'' to understand the
Federal Government's level of preparation for a tsunami in the
United States. Additionally in April, the Subcommittee held a
hearing on border security entitled, ``The Border: Are
Environmental Laws and Regulations Impeding Security and
Harming the Environment?'' A variety of current and former
government officials testified, including former Border Patrol
Agent George Zachary Taylor, who declared that ``there is a
tremendous difference of opinion between what the Law
Enforcement Officers working along the Arizona-Mexico Border
believe is the current state of National Security and Public
Safety there and what the Department of Homeland Security
Officials represent as the current state of National Security
and Public Safety along that very same border.''
V. Summary of Any Additional Oversight Activities Undertaken, and Any
Recommendations Made or Actions Taken Thereon
ATF's Operation Fast and Furious--The Committee has
conducted an investigation over the last several months into
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
(ATF)'s Project Gunrunner, specifically Operation Fast and
Furious. Operation Fast and Furious allowed guns to be
purchased along the Mexican border and transported into Mexico
with ATF's knowledge so that the guns could be tracked in an
attempt to bring down major players in drug cartels. The
operation allowed hundreds of guns to enter Mexico, and many
have been found at the scenes of cartel shootings, including
the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. As part
of its investigation, the Committee has tried to obtain
information from ATF and from the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Because of a lack of cooperation with the investigation, the
Committee subpoenaed ATF in mid-March for documents and
information relating to the failed operation. The Committee is
holding a series of ongoing hearings on Operation Fast and
Furious and continues trying to get ATF and the DOJ to
cooperate and provide information.
VI. Delineation of Any Hearings Held Pursuant to Clauses 2(n), (o), or
(p)
CLAUSE 2(N)
March 2, 2011--Pushing the Envelope: The Looming
Crisis at USPS (Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal
Service and Labor Policy)
April 5, 2011--Are Postal Workforce Costs
Sustainable? (Full Committee)
May 12, 2011--The District of Columbia's Fiscal
Year 2012 Budget: Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability (Subcommittee
on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National
Archives)
May 26, 2011--Rightsizing the Federal Workforce
(Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and
Labor Policy)
CLAUSE 2(O)
January 26, 2011--Bailouts and the Foreclosure
Crisis: Report of the Special Inspector General for the
Troubled Asset Relief Program (Full Committee)
February 16, 2011--Making Sense of the Numbers:
Improving the Federal Financial Reporting Model (Subcommittee
on Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial
Management)
March 9, 2011--A Look at the FY2010 Consolidated
Financial Statements of the U.S. Government (Subcommittee on
Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management)
CLAUSE (P)
March 10, 2011--Financial Management, Work Force,
and Operations at the SEC: Who's Watching Wall Street's
Watchdog? (Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and
Bailouts of Public and Private Programs)
March 16, 2011--TSA Oversight Part I: Whole Body
Imaging (Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense
and Foreign Operations)
March 30, 2011--Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to
Fail? (Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of
Public and Private Programs)
March 31, 2011--Why Isn't the Department of
Homeland Security Meeting the President's Standard on FOIA?
(Full Committee)
April 5, 2011--Waste, Abuse and Mismanagement in
Government Health Care (Subcommittee on Health Care, District
of Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
April 14, 2011--FDA Medical Device Approval: Is
there a Better Way? (Subcommittee on Health Care, District of
Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
May 10, 2011--Financial Management at the
Department of Homeland Security (Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management)
May 24, 2011--Who's Watching the Watchmen?
Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of
Public and Private Programs)
May 25, 2011--Cybersecurity: Assessing the
Immediate Threat to the United States (Subcommittee on National
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations)