[House Report 113-734]
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                                   Union Calendar No. 565


                               ACTIVITIES

                                 of the

                    HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND

                           GOVERNMENT REFORM

                    ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS

                             SECOND SESSION

                            JANUARY 2, 2015

                  (Pursuant to House Rule XI, 1(d)(1))




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              COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

                 DARRELL E. ISSA, California, Chairman
JOHN L. MICA, Florida                ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland,
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio                Ranking Minority Member
JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee       CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
PATRICK T. McHENRY, North Carolina   ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of 
JIM JORDAN, Ohio                         Columbia
JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah                 JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
TIM WALBERG, Michigan                WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri
JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma             STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts
JUSTIN AMASH, Michigan               JIM COOPER, Tennessee
PAUL A. GOSAR, Arizona               GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
PATRICK MEEHAN, Pennsylvania         JACKIE SPEIER, California
SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee          MATTHEW A. CARTWRIGHT, 
TREY GOWDY, South Carolina               Pennsylvania
BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas              TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois
DOC HASTINGS, Washington             ROBIN L. KELLY, Illinois
CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming           DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois
ROB WOODALL, Georgia                 PETER WELCH, Vermont
THOMAS MASSIE, Kentucky              TONY CAARDENAS, California
DOUG COLLINS, Georgia                STEVEN A. HORSFORD, Nevada
MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina         MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico
KERRY L. BENTIVOLIO, Michigan
RON DeSANTIS, Florida

                   Lawrence J. Brady, Staff Director
                John D. Cuaderes, Deputy Staff Director
                    Stephen Castor, General Counsel
                       Linda A. Good, Chief Clerk
                 David Rapallo, Minority Staff Director
                 
                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                  House of Representatives,
                             Committee on Oversight
                                     and Government Reform,
                                   Washington, DC, January 2, 2015.
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 
activities report for the Second Session of the 113th Congress.
            Sincerely,
                                              Darrell Issa,
                                                          Chairman.
                                                          
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     ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT 
                    AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

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Janaury 2, 2015.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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   Mr. Issa, from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

    During the 113th Congress, the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform continued the work it began in the 112th 
Congress to conduct the meaningful oversight of the Executive 
Branch, and offer substantive reform proposals to save taxpayer 
money and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the 
federal government.
    In its efforts to highlight the federal government's waste, 
fraud, mismanagement, and malfeasance, the Committee and its 
Subcommittees held 163 hearings, conducted over 100 transcribed 
interviews and depositions, sent nearly 1,000 letters to 
federal agencies and recipients of federal funding requesting 
documents and information, and reviewed several million 
documents produced to the Committee in response to requests and 
subpoenas.
    Pursuant to House Rule XI, this report contains a detailed 
list of legislative and oversight activities, as well as 
summaries of actions taken with respect to the Committee's 
adopted oversight plan, additional oversight and investigation 
activities, and hearings held on items in the Government 
Accountability Office's biannual High Risk list or the federal 
government's financial statements.

                       I. Legislative Activities


                         BILLS ENACTED INTO LAW

    H.R. 1171, FOR VETS Act of 2013. Introduced by Rep. Dan 
Benishek on March 14, 2013; reported by the Committee on 6/25/
13 (H. Rept. 113-126); passed the House on 7/8/13 (under 
suspension by a vote of 387-1); passed Senate on 8/1/13 (UC); 
and became Public Law 113-26 on 8/9/13.
    H.R. 1233, Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments 
of 2013. Introduced by Rep. Elijah Cummings on 3/18/13. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported 
favorably, as amended, by voice vote; report filed in House on 
6/25/13 (H. Rept. 113-127); report filed in Senate 7/23/14 (S. 
Rept. 113-218); passed Senate by U.C. on 9/10/14; passed House 
after resolving differences on 11/12/14 (voice vote); and 
became Public Law 113-187 on 11/26/14.
    H.R. 1246, District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer 
Vacancy Act. Introduced by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton on 3/19/
2013; reported by the Committee on 4/12/13 (H. Rept. 113-37); 
passed the House on 4/15/13 (voice vote); passed the Senate on 
4/18/13 (UC); and became Public Law 113-8 on 5/1/13.
    H.R. 2860, OPM IG Act. Introduced by Rep. Farenthold on 7/
30/13; reported by the Committee on 11/15/13 (H. Rept. 113-
268); passed House on 1/14/14 (under suspension by a vote of 
418-0); and became Public Law 113-80 on 2/12/14.
    H.R. 3343, to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
to clarify the rules regarding the determination of the 
compensation of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia. Introduced by Rep. Norton on 10/28/13. History: 
report filed by the Committee on 11/15/13 (H. Rept. 113-267); 
passed House on 11/18/13 (voice vote); and became Public Law 
113-71 on 12/26/13.
    H.R. 4192, An Act to regulate the height of buildings in 
the District of Columbia to clarify the rules of the District 
of Columbia regarding human occupancy of penthouses above the 
top story of the building upon which the penthouse is placed. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 3/11/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably to the House by 
voice vote; report filed by the Committee on 4/28/14 (H. Rept. 
113-418); passed House on 4/28/14 (under suspension--vote of 
367-16); and became Public Law 113-103 on 5/16/14.
    H.R. 4193, Smart Savings Act. Introduced by Rep. Issa on 3/
11/14. History: marked up by the Committee on 3/12/14 and 
reported favorably to the House by voice vote; report filed on 
6/30/14 (H. Rept. 113-507); passed House under suspension by 
voice vote on 7/14/14. Passed Senate on 12/10/14 by UC, and was 
signed by the President on 12/18/14.
    H.R. 4194, Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 3/11/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably to the House by 
voice vote; report filed in House 4/28/14 (H. Rept. 113-419); 
passed House on 4/28/14 by voice vote; Senate filed report on 
7/31/14 (S. Rept. 113-232); passed Senate by UC on 9/16/14; 
resolved differences and passed House under suspension 11/12/14 
(382-0); and became Public Law 113-188 on 11/26/14.
    H.R. 4197, All Circuit Review Extension Act. Introduced by 
Rep. Elijah Cummings on March 11, 2014. History: marked up by 
the Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably to the House by 
voice vote; report filed by the Committee on 7/14/14 (H. Rept. 
113-519); passed House on 7/14/14 (voice vote); passed Senate 
on 9/11/14 (UC); and became Public Law 113-170 on 9/26/14.
    S. 231, Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal 
Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2013. Introduced by Sen. Rob 
Portman on 2/7/13. Became Public Law 113-165 on 9/19/14.
    S. 1691, Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Sen. Jon Tester on 11/13/13. Passed Senate on 9/
18/14 by voice vote; passed House on 12/10/14 under suspension 
of the rules; and was signed by the President on 12/18/14.

                       BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE

    H.R. 24, Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Broun on 1/3/13. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 7/24/14 and reported favorably to the House, as 
amended, by voice vote; report filed 9/16/14 (H. Rept. 113-
602); passed House on 9/17/14 under suspension (333-92).
    H.R. 273, to eliminate the 2013 statutory pay adjustment 
for Federal employees. Introduced by Rep. Ron DeSantis on 1/15/
13. History: Was not acted on by the OGR Committee; passed 
House on 2/15/13 by vote of 261-154.
    H.R. 313, Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013. 
Introduced by Rep. Jo Ann Emerson on 1/18/13 (Rep. Farenthold 
later was added as the sponsor upon the retirement of Rep. 
Emerson). History: Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and 
reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote; report filed in 
House on 7/30/13 (H. Rept. 113-183); passed House on 7/31/13 by 
a voice vote.
    H.R. 850, Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013. Introduced 
by Rep. Edward Royce on 2/27/13. History: Was not acted on by 
OGR Committee and on 7/30/13 OGR Committee discharged; passed 
House on 7/31/13 by a vote of 400-20-1.
    H.R. 882, Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2013. 
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on 2/28/13. History: Marked 
up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, by voice 
vote; report filed in House on 4/12/13 (H. Rept. 113-35); 
passed House on 4/15/13 by a vote of 407-0.
    H.R. 899, Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency 
Act of 2013. Introduced by Rep. Virginia Foxx. History: Marked 
up by the Committee on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, as 
amended, by a recorded vote of 22 ayes to 17 noes; report filed 
on 2/14/14 (H. Rept. 113-352); passed House on 2/28/14 by a 
vote of 234-176.
    H.R. 1162, Government Accountability Office Improvement 
Act. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 3/14/13. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, 
by voice vote; report filed in House on 4/12/13 (H. Rept. 113-
36); passed House on 4/15/13 by a vote of 408-0.
    H.R. 1163, Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 
2013. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 3/14/13. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, 
by voice vote; report filed in House on 4/16/13 (H. Rept. 113-
40); passed House on 4/16/13 by a vote of 416-0.
    H.R. 1211, FOIA Act. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 3/
15/13. History: Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and 
reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote; report filed in 
House on 7/16/13 (H. Rept. 113-155); passed House on 2/25/14 
under suspension by a vote of 410-0.
    H.R. 1232, Federal Information Technology Acquisition 
Reform Act. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 3/18/13. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported 
favorably, by voice vote; report filed on 2/25/14 (H. Rept. 
113-359); passed House under suspension by voice vote; report 
filed in Senate 9/18/14 (S. Rept. 113-262).
    H.R. 1423, Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act. Introduced by Rep. 
James Lankford on 4/9/13. History: Marked up by the Committee 
on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote; 
report filed 2/21/14 (H. Rept. 113-355); passed House under 
suspension by voice vote.
    H.R. 1660, Government Customer Service Improvement Act of 
2013. Introduced by Rep. Henry Cuellar on 4/19/13. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, 
as amended, by voice vote; passed House on 7/31/13 by a voice 
vote.
    H.R. 1771, North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Edward Royce on 4/26/13. History: Was not 
acted on by OGR Committee and on 7/28/14 was agreed to in the 
House by voice vote.
    H.R. 1797, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Trent Franks on 4/26/13. History: Was not 
acted on by OGR Committee and on 6/14/13 OGR Committee 
discharged; passed House on 6/18/13 by a vote of 228-196.
    H.R. 2061, Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 
2013. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 5/21/13. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on 5/22/13 and reported favorably, 
as amended, by voice vote; report filed in House on 11/18/13 
(H. Rept. 113-270); passed House on 11/18/13 by a vote of 388-
1.
    H.R. 2804, Achieving Less Excess in Regulation and 
Requiring Transparency Act of 2014. Introduced by Rep. Holding 
on 7/24/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 2/11/14 and 
reported favorably to the House, as amended, by a vote of 19-
15; report filed on 2/21/14 (H. Rept. 113-354, Part I); 
supplemental report filed on 2/25/14 (H. Rept. 113-354, Part 
II); passed House on 2/27/14 by a vote of 236-179.
    H.R. 2879, Stop Government Abuse Act. Introduced by Rep. 
Lynn Jenkins on 7/31/13. History: Was not acted on by OGR 
Committee; passed House on 8/1/13 by a vote of 239-176.
    H.R. 3223, Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act. 
Introduced by Rep. James Moran on 9/30/13. History: Was not 
acted on by OGR Committee; passed House on 10/5/13 by a vote of 
407-0.
    H.R. 3308, Taxpayer Transparency Act of 2014. Introduced by 
Rep. Billy Long on 10/22/13. History: marked up by Committee on 
2/11/14 and passed by voice vote, amended; report filed on 2/
25/14 (H. Rept. 113-358); passed House under suspension by 
voice vote on 2/26/14.
    H.R. 3343, to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
to clarify the rules regarding the determination of the 
compensation of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia. Introduced by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton on 10/28/13. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on 10/29/13 and reported 
favorably, by voice vote; report filed in House on 11/15/13 (H. 
Rept. 113-267); passed House on 11/18/13 by voice vote.
    H.R. 3635, Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Bentivolio on 12/3/13. History: marked up by 
the Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably to the House, 
as amended, by voice vote; report filed on 7/28/14 (H. Rept. 
113-562); passed House under suspension by voice vote on 7/28/
14.
    H.R. 3696, National Cybersecurity and Critical 
Infrastructure Protection Act of 2014. Introduced by Rep. 
McCaul on 12/11/13. History: Was not acted on by the OGR 
Committee; Passed House under suspension on 7/28/14 by voice 
vote.
    H.R. 4031, Department of Veterans Affairs Management 
Accountability Act of 2014. Introduced by Rep. Miller-FL on 2/
11/14. History: Passed House on 5/21/14 under suspension of the 
rules by a vote of 390-33.
    H.R. 4185, District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender 
Service, and Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Act 
of 2014. Introduced by Rep. Norton on 3/10/14. History: marked 
up by the Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably to the 
House by voice vote; report filed on 7/3/14 (H. Rept. 113-514); 
passed House under suspension by voice vote on 7/14/14.
    H.R. 4195, Federal Register Modernization Act. Introduced 
by Rep. Issa on 3/11/14. History: marked up by the Committee on 
3/12/14 and reported favorably to the House by voice vote; 
report filed on 7/3/14 (H. Rept. 113-515); passed House under 
suspension by a vote of 386-0.
    H.R. 5169, Senior Executive Service Accountability Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Walberg on 7/23/14. History: marked up by 
the Committee on 7/24/14 and reported favorably to the House by 
voice vote; report filed on 9/16/14 (H. Rept. 113-603); passed 
House under suspension by voice vote on 9/16/14.
    H.R. 5170, Federal Records Accountability Act. Introduced 
by Rep. Meadows on 7/23/14. History: marked up by the Committee 
on 7/24/14 and reported favorably to the House, as amended, by 
voice vote; passed House under suspension by voice vote on 9/
16/14.

                         BILLS FAILED IN HOUSE

    H.R. 249, Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013. 
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on 1/15/2013. History: Marked 
up by the Committee on 3/20/13, and reported favorably, by 
voice vote; report filed in House on 4/12/13 (H. Rept. 113-38); 
failed in House under suspension of the rules by a vote of 250-
159.

                     BILLS PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE

    H.R. 328, the Excess Federal Building and Property Disposal 
Act of 2013. Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on 1/22/13. 
History: marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported 
favorably, by voice vote.
    H.R. 568, to amend title 5, United States Code, to require 
that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report 
to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal 
employees. Introduced by Rep. Dennis Ross on 2/6/13. History: 
marked up by the Committee on 5/22/13 and reported favorably, 
as amended, by voice vote. Report filed in House on 7/16/13 (H. 
Rept. 113-154).
    H.R. 1104, Federal Advisory Committee Reform Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay on 3/13/13. Marked up by the 
Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, by voice vote.
    H.R. 1133, Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 
2013. Introduced by Rep. John J. Duncan on 3/13/13. History: 
marked up by the Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, 
by voice vote; report filed in House on 6/20/13 (H. Rept. 113-
118).
    H.R. 1234, Electronic Message Preservation Act. Introduced 
by Rep. Elijah Cummings on 3/18/13. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 3/20/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote; report filed in House on 6/25/13 (H. Rept. 113-
128).
    H.R. 1380, Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Mike Quigley on 3/21/13. History: Marked up 
by the Committee on 5/22/13 and reported favorably, as amended, 
by voice vote.
    H.R. 1541, Common Sense in Compensation Act. Introduced by 
Rep. Mark Meadows on 4/12/13. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote. On 7/31/13, considered in House under suspension of 
the rules, and on 8/1/13 was laid on the table.
    H.R. 2067, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau 
Personnel Flexibilities Act. Introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows on 
5/21/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 5/22/13 and 
reported favorably, by voice vote; report filed in House on 7/
16/13 (H. Rept. 113-156).
    H.R. 2579, Government Employee Accountability Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly on 6/28/13. History: marked up by 
the Committee on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote; report filed in House 7/31/13 (H. Rept. 113-186). 
On 7/31/13, considered in House under suspension of the rules, 
and on 8/1/13 was laid on the table.
    H.R. 2711, Citizen Empowerment Act. Introduced by Rep. Lynn 
Jenkins on 7/17/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 7/
24/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote; report 
filed in House on 7/30/13 (H. Rept. 113-184). On 7/31/13, 
considered in House under suspension of the rules, and on 8/1/
13 was laid on the table.
    H.R. 2748, Postal Reform Act of 2013. Introduced by Rep. 
Darrell Issa on 7/19/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 
7/24/13 and reported favorably, as amended, by a vote of 22-17.
    H.R. 2750, Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2013. 
Introduced by Rep. Graves on 7/19/13. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 5/21/14 and reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    H.R. 2793, District of Columbia Financial Efficiency Act of 
2013. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 7/23/13. History: 
marked up by the Committee on 7/24/13 and reported favorably, 
by unanimous consent.
    H.R. 3316, GRANT Act. Introduced by Rep. James Lankford on 
10/23/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 10/29/13 and 
reported favorably, as amended, by a vote of 19 ayes to 15 
nays.
    H.R. 3345, SUSPEND Act. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 
10/28/13. History: marked up by the Committee on 10/29/13 and 
reported favorably, by voice vote.
    H.R. 4011, Alaska Bypass Fair Competition Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 2/6/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 2/11/14 and was reported favorably to the House, 
by voice vote.
    H.R. 4174, Alaska Bypass Modernizaiton Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 3/6/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 3/12/14 and reported favorably by voice vote.
    H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 5/19/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 5/21/14 and reported favorably, as amended, by a 
vote of 18-13.
    H.R. 4671, Public Interest Declassification Board 
Reauthorization Act of 2014. Introduced by Rep. Issa on 5/19/
14. History: marked up by the Committee on 5/21/14 and reported 
favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 4874, Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are 
Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2014 (SCRUB Act). Introduced by 
Rep. Smith of Missouri on 6/17/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 7/24/14 and reported favorably to the House, as 
amended, by a vote of 22-15.
    H.R. 5229, Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Lynch on 7/29/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 7/24/14 and reported to the House favorably, as 
amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 5492, Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2014. 
Introduced by Rep. Issa on 9/16/14. History: marked up by the 
Committee on 9/17/14 and reported favorably to the House, as 
amended, by voice vote.

                         POSTAL NAMING MEASURES

Enacted

    H.R. 43 (Bachmann), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 14 Red River Avenue North in 
Cold Spring, Minnesota, as the ``Officer Tommy Decker Memorial 
Post Office;
    H.R. 78 (Jackson Lee), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 4110 Almeda Road in 
Houston, TX, as the ``George Thomas `Mickey' Leland Post Office 
Building'';
    H.R. 451 (Posey), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in 
Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the ``Richard K. Salick Post Office;''
    H.R. 606 (Reed), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, 
New York, as the ``Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office 
Building;''
    H.R. 1036 (Reichert), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 103 Center Street West 
in Eatonville, Washington, as the ``National Park Ranger 
Margaret Anderson Post Office'';
    H.R. 1228 (Ribble), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 300 Packerland Drive in Green 
Bay, Wisconsin, as the ``Corporal Justin D. Ross Post Office 
Building;''
    H.R. 1376 (Payne), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. 
Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ``Judge Shirley A. 
Tolentino Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 1391 (Stivers), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 25 South Oak Street in 
London, Ohio, as the ``Lance Corporal Joshua B. McDaniels and 
Veterans Memorial Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 1451 (Slaughter), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 14 Main Street in 
Brockport, New York, as the ``Staff Sergeant Nicholas J. Reid 
Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 1671 (Swalwell), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 6937 Village Parkway in 
Dublin, California, as the ``James `Jim' Kohnen Post Office;''
    H.R. 1707 (Davis-IL), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 302 East Green Street 
in Champaign, Illinois, as the ``James R. Burgess Jr. Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 1813 (Ryan-OH), to redesignate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 162 Northeast Avenue in 
Tallmadge, Ohio, as the ``Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin 
Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 2112 (Maloney), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 787 State Route 17M in 
Monroe, New York, as the ``National Clandestine Service of the 
Central Intelligence Agency NCS Officer Gregg David Wenzel 
Memorial Post Office;''
    H.R. 2223 (Benishek), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 220 Elm Avenue in 
Munising, Michigan, as the ``Elizabeth L. Kinnunen Post Office 
Building;''
    H.R. 2291 (Maloney-NY), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 450 Lexington Avenue in 
New York, New York, as the ``Vincent R. Sombrotto Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 2391 (Wagner), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 5323 Highway N in Cottleville, 
Missouri as the ``Lance Corporal Phillip Vinnedge Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 2678 (Garcia), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 10360 Southwest 186th Street 
in Miami, Florida, as the ``Larcenia J. Bullard Post Office 
Building;''
    H.R. 3027 (Gosar), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in 
Prescott, Arizona, as the ``Barry M. Goldwater Post Office;''
    H.R. 3060 (Williams), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 232 Southwest Johnson 
Avenue in Burleson, Texas, as the ``Sergeant William Moody Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 3085 (Lipinski), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 3349 West 111th Street 
in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Captain Herbert Johnson Memorial 
Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 3472 (Collins-NY), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 13127 Broadway Street 
in Alden, New York, as the ``Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz 
Memorial Post Office;''
    H.R. 3534 (Walberg), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 113 West Michigan 
Avenue in Jackson, Michigan, as the ``Officer James Bonneau 
Memorial Post Office;''
    H.R. 3765 (Reed), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 198 Baker Street in Corning, 
New York, as the ``Specialist Ryan P. Jayne Post Office 
Building;''
    H.R. 3957 (Meeks), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 218-10 Merrick Boulevard in 
Springfield Gardens, New York, as the ``Cynthia Jenkins Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 4030 (Wilson-FL), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 18640 NW 2nd Avenue in 
Miami, Florida as the ``Father Richard Marquess-Barry Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 4189 (Stivers), to designate the facilities of the 
United States Postal Service located at 4000 Leap Road, 
Hilliard, Ohio as the ``Master Sergeant Shawn T. Hannon and 
Master Sergeant Jeffrey J. Rieck and Veterans Memorial Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 4416 (Kirkpatrick), to redesignate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 161 Live Oak Street in 
Miami, Arizona, as the ``Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 4443 (Rangel), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 90 Vermilyea Avenue, in New 
York, New York, as the ``Corporal Juan Mariel Alcantara Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 4651 (Stockman), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 601 West Baker Road in 
Baytown, Texas, as the ``Specialist Keith Erin Grace Jr. 
Memorial Post Office;''
    H.R. 4919 (Tiberi), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 715 Shawan Falls Drive in 
Dublin, Ohio, as the ``Lance Corporal Wesley G. Davids and 
Captain Nicholas J. Rozanski Memorial Post Office;''
    H.R. 4939 (McKeon), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 2551 Galena Avenue in Simi 
Valley, California, as the ``Neil Havens Post Office;''
    H.R. 5030 (Ros-Lehtinen), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 13500 SW 250 Street in 
Princeton, Florida, as the ``Corporal Christian A. Guzman 
Rivera Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 5106 (Thompson-CA), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 100 Admiral Callaghan 
Lane in Vallejo, California, as the ``Philmore Graham Post 
Office Building;''
    H.R. 5331 (Cook), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 73839 Gorgonio Drive in 
Twentynine Palms, California, as the ``Colonel M.J. `Mac' Dube, 
USMC Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 5562 (Capps), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 801 West Ocean Avenue in 
Lompoc, California, as the ``Federal Correctional Officer Scott 
J. Williams Memorial Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 5687 (Hahn), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 101 East Market Street in Long 
Beach, California, as the ``Juanita Millender-McDonald Post 
Office;''
    S. 885 (Sanders), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, 
Vermont, as the ``Thaddeus Stevens Post Office;''
    S. 1093 (Cochran), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 130 Caldwell Drive in 
Hazelhurst, Mississippi, as the ``First Lieutenant Alvin 
Chester Cockrell, Jr. Post Office Building;''
    S. 1499 (Johanns), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 278 Main Street in Chadron, 
Nebraska, as the ``Sergeant Cory Mracek Memorial Post Office;'' 
and
    S. 1512 (Schumer), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1335 Jefferson Road in 
Rochester, New York, as the ``Specialist Theodore Matthew 
Glende Post Office.''

Passed by the House

    H.R. 1458 (Garrett), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place 
in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the ``Staff Sergeant Joseph 
D'Augustine Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 1865, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, 
as the ``Thaddeus Stevens Post Office;''
    H.R. 2802, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 418 Liberty Street in Covington, 
Indiana, as the ``Fountain County Veterans Memorial Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 2819, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 275 Front Street in Marietta, Ohio, 
as the ``Veterans Memorial Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 4355, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 201 B Street in Perryville, Arkansas, 
as the ``Harold George Bennett Post Office;''
    H.R. 5019, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1335 Jefferson Road in Rochester, New 
York, as the ``Specialist Theodore Matthew Glende Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 5089, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, 
Florida, as the ``Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post 
Office;''
    H.R. 5142, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 113 West Jackson Street in Rich 
Square, North Carolina, as the ``Chief Joseph E. White, Jr. 
Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 5385, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 55 Grasso Plaza in St. Louis, 
Missouri, as the ``Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office;''
    H.R. 5386, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 11662 Gravois Road in St. Louis, 
Missouri, as the ``Lt. Daniel P. Riordan Post Office.''
    H.R. 5468, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1103 in Camp Pendleton, California, 
as the ``Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office;''
    H.R. 5794, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 16105 Swingley Ridge Road in 
Chesterfield, Missouri, as the ``Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher Post 
Office;''

Passed by the Committee:

    H.R. 2062 (Johnson-OH), to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 275 Front Street in 
Marietta, Ohio, as the ``Lance Corporal Joshua C. Taylor 
Memorial Post Office Building;''
    H.R. 3609 (Owens), to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 3260 Broad Street in Port 
Henry, New York, as the ``Dain Taylor Venne Post Office 
Building;''

                        II. Oversight Activities


                  COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD

Full Committee Hearings Held

    Jan. 22, 2013, 12:30 p.m.--Full Committee Organization 
Meeting.
    Jan. 22, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Wasting Information Technology Dollars: How Can the Federal 
Government Reform its IT Investment Strategy?'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Tom Davis, Former Member of Congress, and Chairman of 
the Government Reform Committee; Mr. Steven VanRoekel, Federal 
CIO, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. David Powner, 
Director, Information Technology Management Issues, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Douglas Bourgeois, Vice 
President, Chief Executive, VMware, Inc.; Michael Klayko, 
Advisor and CEO, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Chris 
Niehaus, Director, Office of Civic Innovation, Microsoft 
Corporation.
    Feb. 5, 2013, 12:30 p.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    Feb. 5, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Government Spending: How Can We Best Address the Billions of 
Dollars Wasted Every Year?'' Witnesses: Mr. Thomas A. Schatz, 
President, Citizens Against Government Waste; Mr. Ryan 
Alexander, President, Taxpayers for Common Sense; The Honorable 
Dan G. Blair, President, National Academy of Public 
Administration; Mr. John M. Kamensky, Senior Fellow, IBM Center 
for the Business of Government.
    Feb. 14, 2013, 10:15 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    Feb. 14, 2013, 10:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Exploring GAO's High Risk List and Opportunities for 
Reform.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller 
General of the United States, U.S. Government Accountability 
Office.
    Feb. 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Time to Reform Information Technology Acquisition: The 
Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.'' Witnesses: Mr. Richard 
Spires, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland 
Security; Ms. Cristina Chaplain, Director, Acquisition and 
Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; The 
Honorable Daniel Gordon, Associate Dean for Government 
Procurement Law Studies, George Washington University Law 
School, Former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy, OMB; Mr. Stan Soloway, President and CEO, Professional 
Services Council; Mr. Paul Misener, Vice President, Global 
Public Policy, Amazon.com.
    March 5, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste and Mismanagement: Implementing Agency 
Watchdogs' Recommendations Could Save Taxpayers Billions'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Anthony W. Miller, Deputy Secretary, 
U.S. Department of Education; The Honorable Kathleen S. Tighe, 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education; The Honorable 
John D. Porcari, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of 
Transportation; and The Honorable Calvin L. Scovel III, 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Transportation.
    Mar. 13, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Addressing Transparency in the Federal Bureaucracy: Moving 
Toward A More Open Government.'' Witnesses: Ms. Angela 
Canterbury, Director of Public Policy, Project on Government 
Oversight; Mr. Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy 
Studies, Cato Institute; Mr. Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, 
Director of the Advisory Committee on Transparency, The 
Sunlight Foundation; Ms. Celia Viggo Wexler, Senior Washington 
Representative, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of 
Concerned Scientists.
    Mar. 19, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``DOD and DHS: Implementing Agency Watchdogs' Recommendations 
Could Save Taxpayers Billions.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Robert Hale, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), U.S. 
Department of Defense; Ms. Lynne Halbrooks, Principal Deputy 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable 
Rafael Borras, Under Secretary for Management, U.S. Department 
of Homeland Security; Mr. Charles Edwards, Deputy Inspector 
General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
    Apr. 9, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO's 2013 Report on 
Duplicative Federal Programs.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Gene 
L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office.
    Apr. 10, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``U.S. Foreign Assistance: What Oversight Mechanisms are in 
Place to Ensure Accountability?'' Witnesses: The Honorable John 
F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction; The Honorable Harold W. Geisel, Deputy 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Michael G. 
Carroll, Deputy Inspector General, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; The Honorable Kenneth P. Moorefield, 
Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans and Operations, U.S. 
Department of Defense; Mr. Paul H. Cooksey, Deputy Special 
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
    Apr. 16, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Open to Visitors? Assessing the Federal Effort to Minimize 
the Sequester's Impact on Access to Our Nation's Capital and 
National Treasures.'' Witnesses: The Honorable David Ferriero, 
Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records 
Administration; The Honorable Jonathan Jarvis, Director, 
National Park Service; G. Wayne Clough, Ph.D., Secretary, 
Smithsonian Institution.
    Apr. 17, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Options to Bring the Postal Service Back from Insolvency.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; The Honorable Mickey Barnett, 
Chairman, Board of Governors, United States Postal Service; The 
Honorable Patrick Donahoe, Postmaster General and Chief 
Executive Officer, United States Postal Service; Mr. Frederic 
Rolando, President, National Association of Letter Carriers, 
AFL-CIO.
    Apr. 24, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Broken Promises: the Small Business Lending Fund's Backdoor 
Bank Bailout.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Christy L. Romero, 
Special Inspector General, Office of the Special Inspector 
General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
    May 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Mark Thompson, Deputy Coordinator for 
Operations, Bureau of Counterterrorism and Leader, Foreign 
Emergency Support Team, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Gregory 
Hicks, Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of 
Mission/Chargee d'Affairs in Libya, U.S. Department of State; 
Mr. Eric Nordstrom, Diplomatic Security Officer and former 
Regional Security Officer in Libya, U.S. Department of State.
    May 15, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee Briefing by the 
Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, on Fed Activities. 
Closed Briefing only open to Committee Members.
    May 22, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee business meeting.
    May 22, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The IRS: Targeting Americans for Their Political Beliefs.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable J. Russell George, Inspector General, 
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, The 
Honorable Douglas Shulman, Former Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service; Ms. Lois G. Lerner, Director, Exempt 
Organizations, Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division, 
Internal Revenue Service; The Honorable Neal S. Wolin, Deputy 
Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
    June 6, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Collected and Wasted: The IRS Spending Culture and Conference 
Abuses.'' Witnesses: The Honorable J. Russell George, Inspector 
General, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; Mr. 
Gregory Kutz, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration; Mr. Faris Fink, 
Commissioner, Small Business and Self-Employed Division, 
Internal Revenue Service; Mr. Danny Werfel, Acting 
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service.
    June 12, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Protecting Taxpayer Dollars: Is the Government Using 
Suspension and Debarment Effectively?'' Witnesses: Mr. John 
Neumann, Acting Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, 
U.S. Government Accountability Office; The Honorable Angela B. 
Styles, Partner, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., (Former 
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, OMB); Mr. 
Scott H. Amey, General Counsel, Project on Government 
Oversight.
    June 18, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reinventing Government.'' Witnesses: The Honorable David M. 
Walker, Government Transformation Initiative; The Honorable 
Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of 
Government, Director, Innovations in Government Program, John 
F. Kennedy School of Government; Ms. Elaine C. Kamarck, Ph.D., 
Director, Management and Leadership Institute, Senior Fellow, 
Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Mr. Daniel J. 
Chenok, Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business of 
Government; Mr. J. David Cox, National President, American 
Federation of Government Employees.
    June 26, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The IRS Contracts with Strong Castle, Inc.'' Witnesses: Ms. 
Beth Tucker, Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, 
Internal Revenue Service; Mr. Michael Chodos, Associate 
Administrator, Office of Entrepreneurial Development, U.S. 
Small Business Administration; Mr. Brad Flohr, Senior Advisor 
for Compensation Service, Veterans Benefit Administration, U.S. 
Veterans Administration; Mr. Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director, 
Enterprise Networks and Tier Systems Support, Internal Revenue 
Service; Mr. William Sisk, Deputy Commissioner, Federal 
Acquisition Service, General Services Administration; Mr. 
Braulio Castillo, President and Chief Executive Officer, Strong 
Castle, Inc.
    June 28, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee business meeting.
    July 10, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to 
Track Money and Performance.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office.
    July 17, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``A Path Forward on Postal Reform.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Adrian Smith, Member of Congress; The Honorable Patrick 
Donahoe, Postmaster General & CEO, United States Postal 
Service; Mr. Joel Quadracci, Chairman, President & CEO, Quad 
Graphics; Mr. Cliff Guffey, President, American Postal Workers 
Union, AFL-CIO.
    July 18, 2013, 11:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The IRS's Systematic Delay and Scrutiny of Tea Party 
Applications.'' Witnesses: Ms. Elizabeth Hofacre, Revenue 
Agent, Exempt Organizations, Tax Exempt and Government Entities 
Division, Internal Revenue Service; Mr. Carter Hull (Recently 
Retired), Tax Law Specialist, Exempt Organizations, Tax Exempt 
and Government Entities Division, Internal Revenue Service; The 
Honorable J. Russell George, Inspector General, Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration; Mr. Michael McCarthy, 
Chief Counsel, Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration; Mr. Gregory Kutz, Assistant Inspector General 
for Management Services and Exempt Organizations, Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration.
    July 24, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee business meeting.
    August 1, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``Department of Energy's Bonneville Power 
Administration: Discriminating Against Veterans and Retaliating 
Against Whistleblowers.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Gregory H. 
Friedman, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Energy; The 
Honorable Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department 
of Energy; Ms. Anita J. Decker, Bonneville Power 
Administration.
    Sept. 10, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Preventing Violations of Federal Transparency Laws.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Gary Gensler, Chairman, U.S., 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; The Honorable Lisa P. 
Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Initiatives, Apple 
Inc. (Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency); Mr. Jonathan Silver Visiting Distinguished Senior 
Fellow, Third Way (Former Executive Director Loan Program 
Office, U.S. Department of Energy); Mr. Andrew, McLaughlin, 
Senior Vice President, Betaworks (Former Deputy Chief 
Technology Officer, Executive Office of the President); The 
Honorable David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States.
    Sept. 19, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reviews of the Benghazi Attack and Unanswered Questions.'' 
Witnesses: Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, Chairman, Benghazi 
Accountability Review Board; Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN 
(Ret.), Vice-Chairman, Benghazi Accountability Review Board; 
Mr. Mark J. Sullivan, Chairman, Independent Panel on Best 
Practices, Former Director, United States Secret Service; Mr. 
Todd Keil, Member, Independent Panel on Best Practices, Former 
Asst. Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, U.S. Department 
of Homeland Security; Ms. Patricia Smith, Mother of Sean Smith; 
and Mr. Charles Woods, Father of Tyrone Woods.
    Oct. 1, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Secret Agent Man? Oversight of EPA's IG Investigation of John 
Beale.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Arthur A. Elkins, Jr., 
Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mr. 
Patrick Sullivan, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mr. Robert Brenner, 
Former Director of Policy Analysis and Review, Office of Air 
and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mr. John 
C. Beale, Former Senior Policy Advisor, U.S Environmental 
Protection Agency; The Honorable Bob Perciasepe, Deputy 
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    Oct. 9, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Examining the IRS's Role in Implementing and Enforcing 
ObamaCare.'' Witnesses: Ms. Sarah Hall Ingram, Director, 
Affordable Care Act Office, Internal Revenue Service.
    Oct. 16, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee and the Committee 
on Natural Resources joint hearing entitled, ``As Difficult As 
Possible: The National Park Service's Implementation of the 
Government Shutdown.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Greg Bryan, 
Mayor, Town of Tusayan; Ms. Anna Eberly, Managing Director, 
Claude Moore Colonial Farm; The Honorable Jonathan B. Jarvis, 
Director, National Park Service; Ms. Lisa Simon, President, 
National Tourism Association; Mr. Myron Ebell, Director, Center 
for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute; 
and Mr. Denis P. Galvin, Board Member, National Parks 
Conservation Association.
    October 29, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee business 
meeting.
    Oct. 30, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``A Culture of Mismanagement and Wasteful Conference Spending 
at the Department of Veterans Affairs.'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Gina Farrisee, Assistant Secretary for Human 
Resources and Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans 
Affairs; Mr. Edward Murray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Finance, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; The Honorable 
John Sepuulveda, Former Assistant Secretary for Human Resources 
and Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; The 
Honorable Richard Griffin, Deputy Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Veterans Affairs; Mr. Gary Abe, Deputy Assistant 
Inspector General for Audits and Evaluations, U.S. Department 
of Veterans Affairs.
    Nov. 13, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``ObamaCare Implementation: The Rollout of Healthcare.gov.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. David A. Powner, Director of IT Management 
Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. Henry Chao, 
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Deputy Director of the Office 
of Information Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services; Mr. Frank Baitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services; Mr. Todd Park, Chief 
Technology Officer of the United States, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy; Mr. Steven VanRoekel, Chief Information 
Officer of the United States, and Administrator, Office of 
Electronic Government, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. 
Richard A. Spires, Former Chief Information Officer, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; and Ms. Karen Evans, Partner, 
KE&T Partners, LLC.
    Nov. 22, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing 
entitled, ``ObamaCare Implementation: Sticker Shock of 
Increased Premiums for Healthcare Coverage.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Dan Waters, President, Dan Waters & Associates; Mrs. Sherry 
Overbey, Director, Belmont Crisis Pregnancy Center; Mr. Joel 
Long, President, Gastonia Sheet Metal Services; Mr. Jason 
Falls, Owner, Falls Insurance; and Mr. Tav Gauss, President, 
The Action Group Human Resources Solutions.
    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing 
entitled, ``ObamaCare Implementation: High Costs, Few Choices 
for Rural America.'' Witnesses: Mr. Raymer M. Sale, Jr., 
President, E2E Benefits Services, Inc.; Jeff Charles Reinhardt, 
Ph.D., President, The Longstreet Clinic, P.C.; Mr. Michael 
Boyette, Owner, Owl Town Auto; and Mrs. Emma Lucille Collins, 
Owner, Synergy Wellness.
    Dec. 2, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Changes to The Heights Act: Shaping Washington, D.C., for the 
Future, Part II.'' Witnesses: Ms. Harriet Tregoning, Director, 
D.C. Office of Planning; and Mr. Marcel C. Acosta, Executive 
Director, National Capital Planning Commission.
    Dec. 4, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Roll out of HealthCare.gov: The Limitations of Big 
Government.'' Witnesses: Veronique de Rug, Ph.D., Senior 
Research Fellow, Mercator Center, George Mason University; 
Clifford Winston, Searle Freedom Trust Senior Fellow, Economic 
Studies Program, The Brookings Institution; Mark A. Calabria, 
Ph.D., Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato 
Institute; and Karen Kruse Thomas, Ph.D., Historian and 
Communications Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of 
Public Health.
    Dec. 6, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing 
entitled, ``ObamaCare Implementation: The Broken Promise: If 
You Like Your Current Plan You Can Keep It.'' Witnesses: Mrs. 
Julie Dalton, Arizona; Ms. Diana Robinson, Arizona; Mr. Steve 
Montgomery, Arizona/California Border; and Mrs. Christie 
Hamman, Arizona.
    Dec. 12, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``ObamaCare's Impact on Premiums and Provider Networks.'' 
Witnesses: Jeffrey English, M.D., Neurologist, The Multiple 
Sclerosis Center of Atlanta; Patricia McLaughlin, M.D., 
Ophthalmologist, New York City; Eric N. Novack, M.D., 
Orthopedic Surgeon, OrthoArizona; Avik S. A. Roy, M.D., Senior 
Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Judith Feder, 
Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, McCourt School of Public 
Policy; Mr. Edmund F. Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow, 
Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Dr. John 
Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis.
    Dec. 16, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee field hearing 
entitled, ``ObamaCare Implementation: Who are the Navigators?'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Kevin Brady, Deputy Chief of Staff, Texas 
Department of Insurance; Dr. Randy Farris, Regional 
Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Ms. 
Carolyn L. Goodwin, CBC, SGS, Certified Consumer Directed 
Health Plans, President-Elect, Texas Association of Health 
Underwriters.
    Jan. 9, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Waste in Government: What's Being Done?'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Tom Carper, United States Senator; The Honorable Tom 
Coburn, United States Senator; Mr. Thomas A. Schatz, President, 
Citizens Against Government Waste; Mr. Chris Edwards, Director 
of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Mr. Brandon Arnold, Vice 
President of Governmental Affairs, National Taxpayers Union; 
and Ms. Jaimie Woo, Tax and Budget Associate, U.S. Public 
Interest Research Group.
    Jan. 15, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Empowering Agency Oversight: Views from the Inspectors 
General Community.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Peggy E. 
Gustafson, Inspector General Small Business Administration; The 
Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Justice; and Ms. Kathy A. Buller, Inspector 
General, Peace Corps.
    January 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``HHS' Own Security Concerns about HealthCare.gov.'' 
Witnesses: Kevin Charest, Ph.D., Chief Information Security 
Officer, Department of Health and Human Services; and Ms. 
Teresa Fryer, Chief Information Security Officer, Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services.
    Jan. 28, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``A Roadmap for Hackers?--Documents Detailing Healthcare.gov 
Security Vulnerabilities.'' Witnesses: Mr. Milton Shomo, 
Principal Information Systems Engineer, Cyber Operations, The 
MITRE Corporation; Kevin Charest, Ph.D., Chief Information 
Security Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    Feb. 5, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``ObamaCare: Why the Need for an Insurance Company Bailout?'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Marco Rubio, United States Senator, 
Florida; John C. Goodman, Ph.D., President and CEO, National 
Center for Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.; Mr. Doug Badger, 
Former Senior White House Advisor for Health Policy to 
President George W. Bush; Professor Timothy S. Jost, Washington 
and Lee University; and the Honorable Charles E. Grassley, U.S. 
Senate.
    Feb. 11, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``D.C. Navy Yard Shooting: Fixing the Security Clearance 
Process.'' Witnesses: Mr. Sterling Phillips, CEO, US 
Investigations Services, LLC; The Honorable Katherine 
Archuleta, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel and Management; 
Mr. Stephen Lewis, Deputy Director for Personnel, Industrial 
and Physical Security Policy, Counterintelligence and Security 
Directorate, Office of Undersecretary of Defense for 
Intelligence, U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable Patrick 
McFarland, Inspector General, U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management; Ms. Susan A. Ordakowski, Vice President, Contracts 
and Compliance, KeyPoint Government Solutions; Mr. Michael 
Rhodes, Executive Vice President, Mission Systems and Services 
Business Group, CACI International, Inc.
    Feb. 11, 2014, 2 p.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    Feb. 26, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Limitless Surveillance at the FDA: Protecting the Rights of 
Federal Whistleblowers.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Charles E. 
Grassley, United State Senator, Iowa; Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., 
Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food 
and Drug Administration; Ms. Ruth McKee, Associate Director for 
Management, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food 
and Drug Administration; Mr. Walter Harris, Chief Operating 
Officer and Acting Chief Information Officer, U.S. Food and 
Drug Administration; Ms. Angele Canterbury, Director for Public 
Policy, Project on Government Oversight.
    March 5, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--continuation of the Full 
Committee hearing entitled, ``The IRS: Targeting Americans for 
their Political Beliefs.'' Witness: Ms. Lois G. Lerner, Former 
Director, Exempt Organizations, Tax Exempt and Government 
Entities Division, Internal Revenue Service.
    March 12, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    March 26, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Examining the IRS Response to the Targeting Scandal.'' 
Witness: The Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service.
    April 2, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Undercover Storefront Operations: Continued Oversight of 
ATF's Reckless Investigative Techniques.'' Witness: The 
Honorable B. Todd Jones, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms, and Explosives.
    April 8, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, 
``The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the 
Postal Service.'' Witness: The Honorable Brian C. Deese, Deputy 
Director, Office of Management and Budget.
    April 8, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO's 2014 Report on 
Duplicative Federal Programs.'' Witness: The Honorable Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office.
    April 10, 2014, 9 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    May 1, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, 
``Benghazi, Instability and a New Government: Successes and 
Failures of U.S. Intervention in Libya.'' Witnesses: Brigadier 
General Robert Lovell, U.S. Air Force (Retired), Former Deputy 
Director for Intelligence and Knowledge Development Directorate 
(J-2); Kori Schake, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; 
Frederic Wehrey, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Middle East Program, 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Daveed Gartenstein-
Ross, Ph.D, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies.
    May 7, 2014, 9 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, ``Is 
EPA Leadership Obstructing Its Own Inspector General?'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mr. Patrick Sullivan, 
Assistant Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency; Mr. Alan Williams, Deputy Assistant Inspector General 
for Investigations, Office of Inspector General, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency; Ms. Elizabeth Heller Drake, 
Special Agent, Office of Investigations, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency.
    May 21, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    June 10, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Social Security Administration Oversight: Examining the 
Integrity of the Disability Determination Appeals Process.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Tom Coburn, M.D., Ranking Minority 
Member, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs, U.S. Senate; Mr. Charles Bridges, Administrative Law 
Judge, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Office of Disability 
Adjudication and Review, U.S. Social Security Administration; 
Mr. James A. Burke, Administrative Law Judge, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, U.S. 
Social Security Administration; Mr. Gerald I. Krafsur, 
Administrative Law Judge, Kingsport, Tennessee, Office of 
Disability Adjudication and Review, U.S. Social Security 
Administration; Mr. Harry C. Taylor II, Administrative Law 
Judge, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Office of Disability 
Adjudication and Review, U.S. Social Security Administration; 
Mr. Gerald I. Krafsur, Administrative Law Judge, Charleston, 
West Virginia, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, 
U.S. Social Security Administration.
    June 11, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Social Security Administration Oversight: Examining the 
Integrity of the Disability Determination Appeals Process, Part 
II.'' Witness: The Honorable Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting 
Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration.
    June 19, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Whistleblower Reprisal and Management Failures at the U.S. 
Chemical Safety Board.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Rafael Moure-
Eraso, Ph.D., Chairman, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board; The Honorable Beth Rosenberg, Ph.D., 
Former Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board; The Honorable Carolyn N. Lerner, Special 
Counsel, U.S. Office of Special Counsel; The Honorable Arthur 
A. Elkins, Jr., Inspector General, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency; Mr. Patrick Sullivan, Assistant Inspector 
General for Investigations, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency; Mr. Mark Griffon, Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety 
and Hazard Investigation Board.
    June 23, 2014, 7 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``IRS Obstruction: Lois Lerner's Missing Emails.'' Witness: The 
Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue 
Service.
    June 24, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, 
``IRS Obstruction: Lois Lerner's Missing Emails, Part II.'' 
Witnesses: Ms. Jennifer O'Connor, Office of the White House 
Counsel, The White House; The Honorable David S. Ferriero, 
Archivist of the United States, U.S. National Archives and 
Records Administration.
    June 25, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Management Failures: Oversight of the EPA.'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable David Vitter, United States Senator, Louisiana; the 
Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator, Rhode 
Island; the Honorable Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency.
    July 10, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, 
``Examining New Embassy Construction: Are New Administration 
Policies Putting Americans Overseas in Danger?'' Witnesses: Ms. 
Lydia Muniz, Director, Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, 
U.S. Department of State; Mr. Casey Jones, Deputy Director, 
Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, U.S. Department of 
State; The Honorable Grant S. Green, Jr., Former Undersecretary 
for Management, U.S. Department of State.
    July 16, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``White House Office of Political Affairs: Is Supporting 
Candidates and Campaign Fund-Raising an Appropriate Use of a 
Government Office?'' Witnesses: Mr. Scott Coffina, Partner, 
Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP (did not testify); The Honorable 
Carolyn Lerner, U.S. Office of Special Counsel (did not 
testify); Mr. David Simas, Director, Office of Political 
Strategy and Outreach, The White House (did not appear).
    July 24, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Federal Trade Commission and Its Section 5 Authority: 
Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury.'' Witnesses: Mr. Michael 
Daugherty, Chief Executive Officer, LabMD, Inc.; Mr. David 
Roesler, Executive Director, Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin; 
Mr. Gerard Stegmaier, Partner, Goodwin Procter; Mr. Woodrow 
Hartzog, Associate Professor, Samford University.
    July 24, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    July 25, 2014, 9 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``White House Office of Political Affairs: Is Supporting 
Candidates and Campaign Fund-Raising an Appropriate Use of a 
Government Office?''
    July 25, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting.
    July 30, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``IRS Abuses: Ensuring that Targeting Never Happens Again.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. David Keating, President, Center for Comparative 
Politics; Ms. Cleta Mitchell, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP; Mr. 
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, The 
Heritage Foundation; The Honorable Hans A. von Spakovsky, 
Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal 
Fellow, The Heritage Foundation.
    September 10, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``Obstructing Oversight: Concerns from Inspectors 
General.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice; the Honorable 
Arthur A. Elkins, Jr., Inspector General, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency; Ms. Kathy A. Buller, Inspector General, 
Peace Corps.
    September 17, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Business 
Meeting.
    September 18, 2014, 11 a.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``Examining ObamaCare's Failures in Security, 
Accountability, and Transparency.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services; U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services; Mr. Greg Wilshusen, Director, Information Security 
Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Ms. Ann Barron-
DiCamillo, Director, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    September 30, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``White House Perimeter Breach: New Concerns about 
the Secret Service.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Julia Pierson, 
Director, U.S. Secret Service; the Honorable W. Ralph Basham, 
Partner, Command Consulting Group, LLC; Mr. Todd M. Keil, 
Senior Advisor, TorchStone Page, Inc.
    October 24, 2014, 9:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing 
entitled, ``The Ebola Crisis: Coordination of a Multi-Agency 
Response.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Nicole Lurie, M.D., 
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services; The Honorable Michael Lumpkin, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, U.S. Department of Defense; Major General James M. 
Lariviere, Deputy Director, Political-Military Affairs 
(Africa), U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable John Roth, 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; 
Deborah Burger, RN, Co-President, National Nurses United; Me. 
Rabih Torbay, Senior Vice President, International Operations, 
International Medical Corps.
    November 18, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee joint hearing 
with the Committee on the Judiciary entitled, ``Abuse of 
USPTO's Telework Program: Ensuring Oversight, Accountability 
and Quality.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Frank R. Wolf, U.S. 
House of Representatives; Ms. Margaret A. (Peggy) Focarino, 
Commissioner for Patents, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; The 
Honorable Todd J. Zinser, Inspector General, U.S. Department of 
Commerce; Mr. Robert D. Budens, President, Patent Office 
Professional Association; Ms. Esther Kepplinger, Chief Patent 
Counselor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Mr. William F. 
Smith, Of Counsel, BakerHostetler.
    Dec. 3, 2014--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Transforming Federal Spending: Implementing the Digital 
Accountability and Transparency Act.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Mark Warner, United States Senator (D-VA); The Honorable Rob 
Portman, United States Senator (R-OH); The Honorable Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; The Honorable David Mader, 
Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, White House 
Office of Management and Budget; and Mr. David Lebryk, Fiscal 
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
    December 9, 2014--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Examining ObamaCare Transparency Failures.'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator, Centers for Medicare 
& Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., Professor, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology; Mr. Ari Goldmann.

                SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD

Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs

    Feb. 14, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, 
``Unintended Consequences: Is Government Effectively Addressing 
the Unemployment Crisis?'' Witnesses: Casey B. Mulligan, Ph.D., 
Professor in Economics, The University of Chicago; Eugene 
Steuerle, Ph.D., Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair, 
The Urban Institute; Ms. Annie Carter, Owner and President, 
Carter Machine Company; Chad Stone, Ph.D., Chief Economist, 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; The Honorable Stacey 
Reece, Former Member of the Georgia State House, Franchise 
Owner, Spherion.
    Feb. 26, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``Bailout 
Rewards: The Treasury Department's Continued Approval of 
Excessive Pay for Executives at Taxpayer-Funded Companies.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Christy Romero, Special Inspector 
General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, U.S. Department 
of the Treasury; Ms. Patricia Geoghegan, Acting Special Master 
for TARP Executive Compensation, U.S. Department of the 
Treasury.
    Mar. 19, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--A Joint Hearing of the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and the Census entitled, ``Sequestration Oversight: 
Understanding the Administration's Decision on Spending Cuts 
and Furloughs.'' Witnesses: Mr. David Robbins, Managing 
Director, Federal Communications Commission; Mr. Michael Young, 
USDA Budget Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mr. Hari 
Sastry, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Management, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.
    Apr. 24, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth 
entitled, ``Green Energy Oversight: Examining the Department of 
Energy's Bad Bet on Fisker Automotive.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Nicholas Whitcombe, Supervisory Senior Investment Officer, LPO, 
Department of Energy; Mr. Henrik Fisker, Former Executive 
Chairman, Fisker Automotive; Mr. Bernhard Koehler, Chief 
Operating Officer, Fisker Automotive; Mr. Nicolas Loris, 
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; Ms. 
Zoe Lipman, Independent Consultant.
    May 7, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee 
on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs and the 
Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitution and Civil 
Justice entitled, ``DOJ's Quid Pro Quo with St. Paul: A 
Whistleblower's Perspective.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Charles 
E. Grassley, United States Senator from Iowa; The Honorable 
Johnny Isakson, United States Senator from Georgia; Mr. 
Fredrick Newell, Community Activist, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mr. 
Thomas F. DeVincke, Attorney representing Mr. Newell in Newell 
v. City of St. Paul; Ms. Shelley R. Slade, Partner, Vogel, 
Slade & Goldstein, LLP.
    May 21, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee 
on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements and the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs entitled, ``Examining the Concerns About ObamaCare 
Outreach Campaign.'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary Cohen, Deputy 
Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and 
Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services.
    July 18, 2013, 2:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, 
``Regulatory Burdens: The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community 
Banking.'' Witnesses: Mr. Eddie Creamer, President and CEO, 
Prosperity Bank; Ms. Tanya Marsh, Assistant Professor of Law, 
Wake Forest University School of Law; The Honorable R. Bradley 
Miller, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress (Former 
Member of Congress); Ms. Hester Peirce, Senior Research Fellow, 
Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
    Sept. 18, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic 
Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs and the 
Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements 
Joint hearing entitled, ``Federal Implementation of ObamaCare: 
Concerns of State Governments.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Jeff 
Colyer, M.D., Lieutenant Governor, State of Kansas; The 
Honorable C. Bradley Hutto, State Senator, State of South 
Carolina; The Honorable Alan Wilson, Attorney General, State of 
South Carolina; The Honorable Katrina R. Jackson, State 
Representative, State of Louisiana; Ms. Kathy Kliebert, 
Secretary, Department of Health and Hospitals, State of 
Louisiana; The Honorable Eleanor Sobel, State Senator, State of 
Florida, The Honorable Matthew Hudson, State Representative, 
State of Florida.
    Feb. 5, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs & Subcommittee on Energy 
Policy, Health Care and Entitlements joint hearing entitled, 
``Co-ops: Examining ObamaCare's $2 Billion Loan Gamble.'' 
Witnesses: Devon Herrick, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, National Center 
for Policy Analysis; Roger Stark, M.D., Health Care Policy 
Analyst, Washington Policy Center; Ms. Sarah Horowitz, 
Executive Director & CEO, Freelancers Union; Mr. Avik Roy, 
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Jan VanRiper, Ph.D., 
Executive Director, National Alliance of State Health Co-Ops.
    Feb. 6, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``The IRS 
Targeting Investigation: What is the Administration Doing?'' 
Witnesses: Ms. Barbara Kay Bosserman (invited), Civil Rights 
Division, United States Department of Justice; Ms. Catherine 
Engelbrecht, Founder, King Street Patriots; Ms. Cleta Mitchell, 
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP; Ms. Becky Gerritson, Founder and 
President Wetumpka TEA Party, Inc.; Mr. Jay Sekulow, Chief 
Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice.
    Feb. 26, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``Is the 
Obama Administration Conducting a Serious Investigation of IRS 
Targeting? Witnesses: The Honorable George J. Terwilliger III, 
Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; The Honorable Hans A. von 
Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior 
Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial 
Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Glen F. Ivey, Partner, 
Leftwich and Ludaway LLC; Mr. Richard W. Painter, S. Waler 
Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota Law 
School; and the Honorable Eileen J. O'Connor, Former Assistant 
Attorney General (2001-2007), Tax Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice.
    Feb. 27, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``The 
Administration's Proposed Restriction on Political Speech: 
Doubling Down on IRS Targeting.'' Witnesses: Ms. Jenny Beth 
Martin, President and Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots; Mr. 
Gabriel Rottman, Legislative Counsel/Policy Advisor, American 
Civil Liberties Union; The Honorable Wayne Allard, Vice 
President, Government Relations, American Motorcyclist 
Association (Former United States Senator from Colorado); Ms. 
Diana Aviv, President and CEO, Independent Sector; Mr. James R. 
Mason, III, Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense 
Association; Mr. Allen Dickerson, Legal Director, Center for 
Comparative Politics.
    April 3, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs and Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlement joint hearing entitled, ``Examining 
ObamaCare's Problem-Filled State Exchanges.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Tom Matsuda, Interim Director, Hawaii Health Insurance 
Exchange; Mr. Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., Chairman, Maryland 
Health Benefit Exchange Board, Maryland Health Insurance 
Exchange; Ms. Jean Young, Executive Director, Massachusetts 
Health Insurance Exchange; Mr. Scott Leitz, Interim Chief 
Executive Officer, Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange; Mr. 
Greg Van Pelt, Advisor to the Governor, Oregon Health Insurance 
Exchange; Mr. Peter Lee, Executive Director, California Health 
Insurance Exchange.
    June 18, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee hearing 
entitled, ``Poised to Profit: How ObamaCare Helps Insurance 
Companies Even If It Fails Patients.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Jeff Sessions, U.S. Senator, Alaska; Mandy Cohen, M.D., Acting 
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer 
Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services; Mr. Seth J. Chandler, Foundation Professor 
of Law, University of Houston Law Center; Mr. John R. Graham, 
Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis; Mr. Edmund 
F. Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy 
Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Ms. Cori E. Uccello, Senior 
Health Fellow, American Academy of Actuaries.
    July 17, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``Examining 
the Justice Department's Solution to the IRS Targeting 
Scandal.'' Witnesses: The Honorable James M. Cole, Deputy 
Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
    July 23, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``An 
Update on the IRS Response to Its Targeting Scandal.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner, U.S. 
Internal Revenue Service.
    July 29, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and the Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, 
``Examining Allegations of Corruption at the Export-Import 
Bank.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and 
President, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Mr. Johnny 
Gutierrez, Former Employee, Short Term Trade, Finance Division, 
Export-Import Bank of the United States; Ms. Diane Katz, 
Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy, the Heritage Foundation.
    September 17, 2014 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and the Regulatory Affairs hearing entitled, ``The 
IRS Targeting Scandal: Changing Stories of Missing E-mails.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner, U.S. 
Internal Revenue Service.

Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements

    Feb. 14, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``The Effects of 
Rising Energy Costs on American Families and Employers.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. George Hand, General Manager, Canadian Valley 
Electric Cooperative; Ms. Paula Carmody, President, National 
Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates; Mr. Eugene M. 
Trisko, Attorney at Law and Energy Economist; Mr. Daniel Weiss, 
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund; Mr. 
Daniel R. Simmons, Director of Regulatory and State Affairs, 
Institute for Energy Research.
    Mar. 19, 2013, 3:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements entitled, ``The Department of 
Energy's Strategy for Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Chris Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary for 
Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Tom Choi, 
National Practice Leader--Gas, Deloitte MarketPoint LLC; Mr. 
Paul N. Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consumers of 
America; Charles K. Ebinger, Ph.D, Director, Foreign Policy, 
Energy Security Initiative, Brookings Institute.
    Apr. 25, 2013, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Lack of Transparency and Consumer Driven Market Forces in U.S. 
Health Care.'' Witnesses: Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., 
Surgeon, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health Policy Professor, Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; John Goodman, Ph.D., 
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Center for 
Policy Analysis; Ms. Lynn Quincy, Senior Health Policy Analyst, 
Consumers Union.
    May 16, 2013, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Opportunities 
Lost: Constraints on Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands 
and Waters.'' Witnesses: Mr. Tommy P. Beaudreau, Acting 
Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, U.S. 
Department of the Interior; Mr. Frank Rusco, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability 
Office.
    May 21, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee 
on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements and the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs entitled, ``Examining the Concerns About ObamaCare 
Outreach Campaign.'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary Cohen, Deputy 
Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and 
Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services.
    June 5, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Up Against the 
Blend Wall: Examining EPA's Role in the Renewable Fuel 
Standard.'' Witnesses: Mr. Christopher Grundler, Director, 
Office of Transportation & Air Quality, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency; Mr. Jack Gerard, President and CEO, American 
Petroleum Institute; Mr. Lucian Pugliaresi, President, Energy 
Policy Research Foundation Inc.; Mr. Joel Brandenberger, 
President, National Turkey Federation; Jeremy I. Martin, Ph.D., 
Senior Scientist, Clean Vehicles Program, Union of Concerned 
Scientists.
    June 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Oversight of 
Rising Social Security Disability Claims and the Role of 
Administrative Law Judges.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Tom 
Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma), Ranking Minority Member, Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States 
Senate; Glenn E. Sklar, Deputy Commissioner, Disability 
Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration; The 
Honorable Larry J. Butler, Administrative Law Judge, Miami 
Office of Disability Adjudication Review, Social Security 
Administration; The Honorable Thomas W. Snook, Administrative 
Law Judge, Miami Office of Disability Adjudication Review, 
Social Security Administration; The Honorable J.E. Sullivan, 
Administrative Law Judge, Pittsburgh Office of Administrative 
Law Judges, U.S. Department of Labor; The Honorable Drew A. 
Swank, Administrative Law Judge, Pittsburgh Office of 
Administrative Law Judges, U.S Department of Labor; Thomas D. 
Sutton, Board of Directors, National Organization of Social 
Security Claimants' Representatives.
    July 17, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements and Committee on Homeland Security 
Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and 
Security Technologies joint hearing entitled, ``Evaluating 
Privacy, Security, and Fraud Concerns with ObamaCare's 
Information Sharing Apparatus.'' Witnesses: Mr. Alan R. Duncan, 
Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information 
Technology Services, Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration; Mr. Terence V. Milholland, Chief Technology 
Officer, Internal Revenue Service; The Honorable Danny Werfel, 
Principal Deputy Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; The 
Honorable Marilyn B. Tavenner, Administrator, Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and 
Human Services; Mr. Henry Chao, Deputy Chief Information 
Officer, Deputy Director of the Office of Information Services, 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services; Mr. John Dicken, Director, Health 
Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    July 18, 2013, 2:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Obama Administration's Social Cost of Carbon Estimates.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Howard Shelanski, Administrator, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget.
    July 31, 2013, 10:15 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Oversight of 
IRS's Legal Basis for Expanding ObamaCare's Taxes and 
Subsidies.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Scott Pruitt, Attorney 
General, State of Oklahoma; Charles Willey, M.D., CEO, Innovare 
Health Advocates Inc.; Mr. Simon Lazarus, Senior Counsel, 
Constitutional Accountability Center; Mr. Jonathan Adler, 
Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University; Ms. Emily 
McMahon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. 
Department of the Treasury.
    Oct. 2, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Oversight of 
the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit.'' Witnesses: Mr. Curtis 
G. Wilson, Associate Chief Counsel, Passthroughs and Special 
Industries, Internal Revenue Service; Mr. Rob Gramlich, Senior 
Vice-President for Public Policy, American Wind Energy 
Association; Mr. Dan W. Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-
Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance at Stanford 
University; Robert J. Michaels, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Institute 
for Energy Research, Professor of Economics, California State 
University, Fullerton.
    Nov. 19, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Continuing 
Oversight of the Social Security Administration's Mismanagement 
of Federal Disability Programs.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Patrick O'Carroll, Inspector General, Social Security 
Administration; Mr. Glenn E. Sklar, Deputy Commissioner, 
Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security 
Administration; and Mr. Jasper J. Bede, Regional Chief 
Administrative Law Judge, Region 3 Office of Disability 
Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration.
    Feb. 5, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs & Subcommittee on Energy 
Policy, Health Care and Entitlements joint hearing entitled, 
``Co-ops: Examining ObamaCare's $2 Billion Loan Gamble.'' 
Witnesses: Devon Herrick, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, National Center 
for Policy Analysis; Roger Stark, M.D., Health Care Policy 
Analyst, Washington Policy Center; Ms. Sarah Horowitz, 
Executive Director & CEO, Freelancers' Union; Mr. Avik Roy, 
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Jan VanRiper, Ph.D., 
Executive Director, National Alliance of State Health Co-Ops.
    Feb. 27, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care, and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Endangered Species Act.'' Witnesses: Mr. Samuel Rauch, Deputy 
Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, U.S. 
Department of Commerce; Mr. Michael Bean, Counselor, Fish and 
Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior.
    April 3, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs and Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlement joint hearing entitled, ``Examining 
ObamaCare's Problem-Filled State Exchanges.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Tom Matsuda, Interim Director, Hawaii Health Insurance 
Exchange; Mr. Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., Chairman, Maryland 
Health Benefit Exchange Board, Maryland Health Insurance 
Exchange; Ms. Jean Young, Executive Director, Massachusetts 
Health Insurance Exchange; Mr. Scott Leitz, Interim Chief 
Executive Officer, Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange; Mr. 
Greg Van Pelt, Advisor to the Governor, Oregon Health Insurance 
Exchange; Mr. Peter Lee, Executive Director, California Health 
Insurance Exchange.
    April 9, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Examining Ways 
the Social Security Administration Can Improve the Disability 
Review Process.'' Witnesses: Mr. Daniel Bertoni, Director, 
Education, Workforce and Income Security, U.S. Government and 
Accountability Office; Ms. Jennifer Nottingham, President, 
National Association of Disability Examiners; Ms. Mariana 
LaCanfora, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Retirement and 
Disability Policy, Social Security Administration; Ms. Jennifer 
Shaw Lockhart, State Director, Sooner SUCCESS, The University 
of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; The Honorable Patrick 
O'Carroll, Inspector General, Social Security Administration.
    April 30, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements Hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Effect of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on U.S. Foreign 
Policy.'' Witnesses: Mr. Christopher A. Smith, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of 
Energy; Mr. Amos J. Hochstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Energy Diplomacy, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department 
of State.
    May 20, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Medicare 
Mismanagement: Oversight of the Federal Government Effort to 
Recapture Misspent Funds.'' Witnesses: Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., 
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Program 
Integrity, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services; Ms. Kathleen King, 
Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. Brian P. Ritchie, Assistant Inspector General for Audit 
Services, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services.
    July 10, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Medicare 
Mismanagement Part II: Exploring Medicare Appeals Reform.'' 
Witness: Ms. Nancy J. Griswold, Chief Administrative Law Judge, 
Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services.
    July 29, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Federal Government's Failure to Curb Wasteful State Medicaid 
Financing Schemes.'' Witnesses: Ms. Katherine Iritani, 
Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. John Haag, Director of Medical Audits, U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services; Ms. Cindy Mann, Deputy Administrator 
and Director, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
    December 10, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy 
Policy, Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, 
``Examining EPA's Management of the Renewable Fuel Standard 
Program.'' Witnesses:

Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census

    Feb. 27, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``The Road Less Traveled: Reducing Federal Travel & Conference 
Spending.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Rush Holt, Representative 
for the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey; The 
Honorable Danny Werfel, Controller, U.S. Office of Management 
and Budget; Ms. Cynthia Metzler, Chief Administrative Services 
Officer, U.S. General Services Administration.
    Mar. 19, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--A Joint Hearing of the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and the Census entitled, ``Sequestration Oversight: 
Understanding the Administration's Decision on Spending Cuts 
and Furloughs.'' Witnesses: Mr. David Robbins, Managing 
Director, Federal Communications Commission; Mr. Michael Young, 
USDA Budget Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mr. Hari 
Sastry, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Management, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.
    Apr. 10, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census entitled, ``Ahead 
of Postal Reform: Hearing from USPS Business Partners.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Steven Brandt, President and Publisher, 
Greenville News; Ms. Joy Franckowiak, Director, Postal Affairs 
and Distribution, Valpak; Ms. Meta Brophy, Director, 
Procurement Operations, Consumer Reports; Mr. Carl Janssens, VP 
Pharmacy Operations, CVS Caremark; Mr. Ken Garner, President & 
CEO, Association of Marketing Service Providers; and Mr. Jerry 
Cerasale, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Direct 
Marketing Association.
    Apr. 11, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``The Federal Employees Health Benefit Program: Is it a Good 
Value for Federal Employees?'' Witnesses: Mr. Jonathan Foley, 
Director, Planning and Policy Analysis, U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management; Mr. William A. Breskin, Vice President of 
Government Programs, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; 
Mr. Thomas C. Choate, Chief Growth Officer, UnitedHealthcare; 
Mr. Mark Merritt, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Care 
Management Association; Ms. Jacqueline Simon, Public Policy 
Director, American Federation of Government Employees.
    May 9, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, ``Is OPM 
Processing Federal Worker Pension Claims on Time?'' Witnesses: 
Mr. Patrick McFarland, Inspector General, U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management; Mr. Kenneth Zawodny, Associate Director, 
Retirement Services, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Ms. 
Valerie C. Melvin, Director, Information Management & 
Technology Resource Issues, U.S. Government Accountability 
Office; Dr. George Kettner, President, Economic Systems, Inc.; 
Mr. Joseph A. Beaudoin, President, National Active and Retired 
Federal Employees Assoc. (NARFE).
    June 5, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, ``OPM's 
Revolving Fund: A Cycle of Government Waste?'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General, U.S. Office 
of Personnel Management; Charles D. Grimes, III, Chief 
Operating Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Linda 
E. Brooks Rix, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Avue Technologies 
Corporation.
    July 10, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``The Combined Federal Campaign: Making Every Dollar Count.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable David G. Reichert (WA-08), U.S. House 
of Representatives; Mr. Mark Lambert, Associate Director for 
Merit System Accountability and Compliance, U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management, Ms. Ju'Coby Pittman, President and CEO, 
Clara White Mission; Mr. Kalman Stein, President and CEO, 
EarthShare; Ms. Debby Hampton, President and CEO, United Way of 
Central Oklahoma; Mr. Ken Berger, President and CEO, Charity 
Navigator.
    Sept. 11, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Ensuring an Accurate and Affordable 2020 Census.'' Witnesses: 
The Honorable John Thompson, Director, U.S. Census Bureau; Mr. 
Robert Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office; Ms. Carol Cha, Director, Information 
Technology, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    Dec. 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Assessing Government's Use of Design-Build Contracts.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. James Dalton, Chief of the Engineering and 
Construction Division, Directorate of Civil Works, United 
States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); Mr. Charles Dalluge, 
Executive Vice President, Leo A Daly Company, On behalf of the 
American Institute of Architects; and Mr. Randall Gibson, 
President, Whitesell-Green, Inc., On behalf of the Associated 
General Contractors of America.
    March 4, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Alaska Bypass: A Broken System.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Mark Begich, United States Senator, Alaska; The Honorable Don 
Young, United States Representative, Alaska (At-Large); Mr. 
Ronald S. Haberman, Alaska District Manager, United States 
Postal Service; Ms. Tammy Whitcomb, Deputy Inspector General, 
Office of Inspector General, United States Postal Service; Mr. 
Dennis Devany, Deputy Director, Office of Aviation Analysis, 
Office of Aviation and International Affairs, United States 
Department of Transportation; Mr. Steve Deaton, Senior Vice 
President, Alaska Central Express (ACE) Air Cargo, Inc.; Mr. 
Jeff Butler, Vice President, Airport Operations and Customer 
Service, Alaska Airlines.
    March 13, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on the Federal 
Workforce, US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``At a Crossroads: the Postal Service's $100 Billion in 
Unfunded Liabilities.'' Witnesses: Mr. Frank Todisco, Chief 
Actuary, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. Jeffrey 
Williamson, Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice 
President, U.S. Postal Service; Mr. Robert Moss, Chief, Budget 
and Resource Management, Defense Health Agency; Mr. Joel 
Sitrin, Chief Actuary, U.S. Department of Defense.
    May 22, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on the Federal 
Workforce, US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Examining Innovative Postal Products for the 21st Century.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. James P. Cochrane, Chief Information Officer and 
Executive Vice President, U.S. Postal Service; Mr. David C. 
Williams, Inspector General, U.S. Postal Service Office of 
Inspector General; Mr. Will Davis, Chief Executive Officer, 
Outbox, Inc.; Mr. Seth Weisberg, Chief Legal Officer, 
Stamps.com; Mr. Patrick Eidemiller, Director of Engineering and 
Technology, M-pack Systems; Mr. Todd Everett, Chief Operating 
Officer, Newgistics, Inc.
    July 11, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Oversight of the Federal Workforce: The Viability of the 
Senior Executive Service.'' Witnesses: Mr. Samuel Retherford, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Human Resources 
and Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Mr. 
Stephen Shih, Deputy Associate Director, Executive Resources 
and Employee Development, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; 
Ms. Carol A. Bonosaro, President, Senior Executives 
Association.
    July 15, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, ``Is the 
Federal Government's General Schedule (GS) a Viable System for 
the Future?'' Witnesses: The Honorable Katherine Archuleta, 
Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; The Honorable 
Donald J. Devine, Senior Scholar, The Fund for American 
Studies; Mr. Robert Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, 
U.S. Government Accountability Office; Ms. Patricia J. Niehaus, 
National President, Federal Managers Association; Mr. J. David 
Cox, National President, American Federation of Government 
Employees.
    September 9, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Examining the Administration's Treatment of Whistleblowers.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Carolyn Lerner, Special Counsel, U.S. 
Office of Special Counsel; The Honorable Susan Tsui Grundmann, 
Chair, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; Mr. Robert MacLean, 
Former Federal Air Marshal, Transportation Security 
Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Robert 
Van Boven, M.D., D.D.S., Former Director, Brain Imaging and 
Recovery Laboratory, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, 
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Mr. Tom Devine, Legal 
Director, Government Accountability Project.
    September 18, 2014, 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``U.S. Census Bureau: Addressing Data Collection 
Vulnerabilities.'' Witnesses: The Honorable John H. Thompson, 
Director, U.S. Census Bureau; Director, U.S. Census Bureau; The 
Honorable Todd Zinser, Inspector General, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.
    November 19, 2014, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Examining Data Security at the United States Postal 
Service.'' Witnesses: Mr. Guy Cottrell, Chief Postal Inspector, 
United States Postal Service Inspection Service; Mr. Randy 
Miskanic, Vice President of Secure Digital Solutions, United 
States Postal Service; Ms. Tammy Whitcomb, Deputy Inspector 
General, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector 
General; Mr. Tim Edgar, Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for 
International Studies, Brown University; and Mr. Charles E. 
Hamby II, Captain, Narcotics Enforcement Division, Prince 
Georges County Police Department.
    December 10, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Addressing the Backlog in the Federal Employee Retirement 
Process.'' Witnesses:

Subcommittee on Government Operations

    Feb. 27, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Failures in Managing Federal 
Real Property: Billions in Losses.'' Witnesses: Dorothy Robyn, 
Ph.D., Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General 
Services Administration; Mr. David Wise, Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. 
Leonard Gilroy, Director of Government Reform, Reason 
Foundation.
    Apr. 25, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Government Operations Oversight: 
Addressing Unused and Vacant Federal Property.'' Off-site 
hearing located at: 49 L Street S.E. in Washington, D.C. 
Witnesses: Mr. Michael Gelber, Deputy Commissioner, Public 
Buildings Service, General Services Administration; Mr. David 
Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure Team, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office; The Honorable Tommy Wells, D.C. 
Councilmember, Ward 6; Mr. Ed Kaminski, Commissioner, 
Washington D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissions.
    May 9, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Federal Government Approaches to 
Issuing Biometric IDs.'' Witnesses: Mr. Stephen Sadler, 
Assistant Administrator, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, 
Transportation Security Administration; Mr. Stephen A. Lord, 
Director, Forensic Audits and Investigations, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office.
    May 14, 2013, 2:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations Field Hearing entitled, ``Data Centers and the 
Cloud: Is the Government Optimizing New Information 
Technologies Opportunities to Save Taxpayers Money?'' Held in 
the Meese Conference Room in Mason Hall at George Mason 
University, Fairfax, VA. Witnesses: Mr. David A. Powner, 
Director, Information Technology Management Issues, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Bernard Mazer, Chief 
Information Officer, Department of the Interior; Mr. Steve 
O'Keeffe, Founder, MeriTalk; Ms. Teresa H. Carlson, Vice 
President, World Wide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services; Mr. 
Kenyon Wells, Vice President of U.S. Federal, CGI Federal.
    June 10, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations Field Hearing entitled, ``The Delphi Pension 
Bailout: Unequal Treatment of Retirees.'' Held at the Sinclair 
Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Witnesses: Mr. Bruce Gump, 
Delphi Salaried Retirees Association; Ms. Mary Miller, Delphi 
Salaried Retirees Association; Mr. Tom Rose, Delphi Salaried 
Retirees Association; Mr. Paul Dobosz, Delphi Salaried Retirees 
Association; Mr. James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst in Labor 
Economics, The Heritage Foundation.
    June 19, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Federal Government Approaches to 
Issuing Biometric IDs: Part II.'' Witnesses: Mr. Charles H. 
Romine, Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department 
of Commerce; Mr. Steven Martinez, Executive Assistant Director 
of the Science and Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice; Mr. John Allen, 
Director of the Flight Standards Service, Federal Aviation 
Administration; Ms. Colleen Manaher, Executive Director of 
Planning, Program Analysis, and Evaluation, Office of Field 
Operations, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security; Ms. Brenda Sprague, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Passport Services, U.S. Department of State.
    June 21, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations Field Hearing entitled, ``Building a Better 
Partnership: Exploring the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration's Regulation of Southern Appalachian Mining.'' 
Held at the Mitchell County Historic Courthouse in Bakersville, 
North Carolina. Witnesses: Mr. Marvin Lichtenfels, Deputy 
Administrator for Metal/Non-Metal, Mine Safety and Health 
Administration; Mr. Sam Bratton, President, North Carolina 
Aggregates Association; Mr. Jeff Stoll, Safety and Health 
Manager, The Quartz Corporation; Mr. Mack McNeely, Vice 
President, LBM Industries and Nantahala Talc Limestone.
    July 25, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Data Centers and the Cloud, Part 
II: The Federal Government's Take on Optimizing New Information 
Technologies Opportunities to Save Taxpayers Money.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. David Powner, Director, Information Technology 
Management Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; The 
Honorable Steven VanRoekel, Acting Deputy Director for 
Management, Federal Chief Information Officer, Administrator 
for E-Government and Information Technology, Office of 
Management and Budget; Dr. David L. McClure, Associate 
Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative 
Technologies, U.S. General Services Administration.
    August 2, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Examining the Skyrocketing 
Problem of Identity Theft Related Tax Fraud at the IRS.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Daniel Werfel, Principal Deputy 
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; Ms. Nina E. Olson, 
National Taxpayer Advocate, Office of the Taxpayer Advocate; 
Mr. Michael McKenney, Acting Deputy Inspector General for 
Audit, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; Mr. 
Douglas J. MacGinnitie, State Revenue Commissioner, Department 
of Revenue.
    Sept. 11, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Oversight of the SIGTARP Report 
on Treasury's Role in the Delphi Pension Bailout.'' Witnesses: 
The Honorable Christy L. Romero, Special Inspector General for 
the Troubled Asset Relief Program; Mr. Matthew A. Feldman, 
Partner, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP; Mr. Steven Rattner, 
Chairman, Willett Advisors, LLC; Mr. Harry J. Wilson, Chairman, 
CEO and founder, The MAEVA Group, LLC; Mr. Harvey R. Miller, 
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP; Ms. Barbara D. Bovbjerg, 
Managing Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security 
Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Ms. A. Nicole 
Clowers, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, 
U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    Nov. 14, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Reviewing Alternatives to 
Amtrak's Annual Losses in Food and Beverage Service.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Tom Hall, Chief of Customer Services, Amtrak, 
Mr. Ted Alves, Inspector General, Amtrak Office of the 
Inspector General; Mr. Dwayne Bateman, Vice General Chairman, 
Unite-Here Local 43; and Mr. Ed Howell, Senior Vice President 
of Retail, Smithsonian Enterprises, Smithsonian Institution.
    Dec. 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations field hearing entitled, ``Federal Trade Commission 
and General Services Administration Thwart Cost Saving 
Consolidation.'' Witnesses: Mr. David Robbins, Executive 
Director, Federal Trade Commission; and Mr. Chris Wisner, 
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Leasing, Public Buildings 
Service, General Services Administration.
    Jan. 14, 2014, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``TSA Oversight: Examining the 
Screening Partnership Program.'' Witnesses: Mr. Kelly C. 
Hoggan, Assistant Administrator for Security Operations, 
Transportation Security Administration; Mr. Mark Bell, Acting 
Deputy Inspector General for Audits, U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General; Ms. 
Jennifer Grover, Acting Director, Homeland Security and 
Justice, Government Accountability Office.
    Feb. 4, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Government Operations Subcommittee 
hearing entitled, ``Mixed Signals: The Administration's Policy 
on Marijuana.'' Witnesses: Mr. Michael P. Botticelli, Deputy 
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
    Feb. 10, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations field hearing entitled, ``Assessing NASA's 
Underutilized Real Property Assets at the Kennedy Space 
Center.'' Witnesses: Mr. Robert D. Cabana, Director, John F. 
Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration; Brigadier General Nina M. Armagno, Commander, 
24th Space Wing, Director, Eastern Range, Patrick Air Force 
Base, Florida, United States Air Force; John E.B. Smith, 
Regional Commissioner, Public Building Service, Southeast 
Sunbelt Region, U.S. General Services Administration; Mr. Jim 
Kuzma, Chief Operating Officer, Space Florida; Mr. Charles Lee, 
Director of Advocacy, Central Florida Policy Office, Audubon 
Society; Mr. John Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, Cape 
Canaveral Port Authority.
    March 4, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Mixed Signals: The 
Administration's Stance on Marijuana, Part Two.'' Witness: The 
Honorable Thomas M. Harrigan, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Drug 
Enforcement Administration; the Honorable John F. Walsh, 
Attorney, Colorado, Department of Justice.
    May 6, 2014, 9:00 a.m.--Plymouth Township Hall--
Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing titled, ``Field 
Hearing: Impediments to Job Creation in Michigan.'' Witnesses: 
Mr. Chris Fisher, President & CEO, Associated Builders and 
Contractors; Ms. Janet Kaboth, President & CEO, Whitacrew Greer 
Company; Mr. Richard Kligman, President, Superb Custom Homes; 
Mr. Michael Lenahan, President, Resource Recovery Corporation 
of West Michigan.
    May 9, 2014, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Mixed Signals: The 
Administration's Policy on Marijuana, Part Three.'' Witnesses: 
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate for the District 
of Colombia, U.S. House of Representatives; Mr. Peter Newsham, 
Assistant Chief, Metropolitan Police Department; Mr. Robert D. 
MacLean, Acting Chief, U.S. Park Police; Mr. David A. O'Neil, 
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. 
Department of Justice; Ms. Seema Sadanandan, Program Director, 
American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation's Capital.
    May 20, 2014, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Examining the Federal Response 
to Autism Spectrum Disorders.'' Witnesses: Mr. Thomas R. Insel, 
M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Chair, 
Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee; Mr. Michael K. 
Yudin, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education 
and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education; 
Marcia Crosse, Ph.D., Director, Health Care, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office.
    May 22, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government Operations 
hearing entitled, ``Evaluating Public Housing in the U.S.: 
Reining in Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Mismanagement at Public 
Housing Authorities.'' Witnesses: Mr. Cecil House, General 
Manager, New York City Housing Authority; Mr. Kelvin Jeremiah, 
President & CEO, Philadelphia Housing Authority; the Honorable 
David Montoya, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Housing 
and Urban Development.
    May 29, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Pseudo Classification of 
Executive Branch Documents: Problems with the Transportation 
Security Administration's Use of the Sensitive Security 
Information Designation.'' Witnesses: Ms. Annmarie Lontz, 
Division Director, Office of Security Services and Assessments, 
Transportation Security Administration; Mr. John Fitzpatrick, 
Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National 
Archives and Records Administration; Ms. Patrice McDermott, 
Executive Director, OpenTheGovernment.org Coalition.
    June 20, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Mixed Signals: the 
Administration's Policy on Marijuana, Part Four--the Health 
Effects and Science.'' Witnesses: Doug Throckmorton, M.D., 
Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; 
Nora Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute of Drug Abuse; 
Carl Hart, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology & Co-
Director of the Institute for Research in African American 
Studies, Columbia University.
    July 9, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Examining Solutions to Close the 
$106 Billion Improper Payments Gap.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
John Koskinen, Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Ms. 
Beth Cobert, Deputy Director for Management, U.S. Office of 
Management and Budget; Ms. Beryl H. Davis, Director, Financial 
Management and Assurance, U.S. Government Accountability 
Office; Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., Deputy Administrator and 
Director, Center for Program Integrity Center for Medicare and 
Medicaid Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 
Mr. Mark Easton, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, U.S. 
Department of Defense.
    July 29, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Federal Real Property: 
Eliminating Waste and Mismanagement of Real Property Assets.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable David Mader, Controller, Office of 
Federal Financial Management, U.S. Office of Management and 
Budget; Mr. Michael Gelber, Deputy Commissioner, Public 
Buildings Services, U.S. General Services Administration; Mr. 
David J. Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure Team, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. James M. Sullivan, 
Director, Office of Enterprise Management, U.S. Department of 
Veterans Affairs.
    July 31, 2014, 9 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Planes, Trains and Automobiles: 
Operating While Stoned.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Christopher 
A. Hart, Acting Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; 
Mr. Jeffrey P. Michael, Ph.D., Associate Administrator for 
Research and Program Development, National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation; Ms. 
Patrice M. Kelly, Acting Director, Office of Drug and Alcohol 
Policy and Compliance, U.S. Department of Transportation; Mr. 
Ronald Flegel, Director, Division of Workplace Programs, Center 
for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental 
Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services.
    October 14, 2014 1 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Gym Memberships, Gift Cards, and 
Hair Salons: Examining the Misuse of Government-Supplied Credit 
Cards.'' Witnesses: Ms. Anne Richards, Assistant Inspector 
General for Audits, Office of Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; Ms. Janet Kasper, Director, 
Contracts and Assistance Agreement Audits, Office of Inspector 
General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Mr. Elliot 
Lewis, Assistant Inspector General for Audits, Office of 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor; Mr. John Lyle, 
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (Contracting), U.S. Air 
Force; Mr. H.L. Larry, Deputy Director of Air Force Services, 
U.S. Air Force.

Subcommittee on National Security

    Feb. 13, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``U.S. Direct Assistance in 
Afghanistan: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for 
Afghanistan Reconstruction.
    Apr. 17, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Contracting to Feed U.S. Troops in 
Afghanistan: How did the Defense Department end up in a Multi-
Billion Dollar Billing Dispute?'' Witnesses: Mr. Michael 
Schuster, Managing Director Logistics Division, Supreme Group 
B.V.; Mr. Daniel Blair, Deputy Inspector General for Auditing, 
U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Matthew Beebe, Deputy Senior 
Acquisition Executive, Defense Logistics Agency; Mr. William 
Kenny, Acquisition Executive, Troop Support, Defense Logistics 
Agency; Mr. Gary Shifton, Chief, OCONUS Division, Defense 
Logistics Agency.
    Apr. 18, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Sequestration Oversight: Prioritizing 
Security over Administrative Costs at TSA.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
John W. Halinski, Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security 
Administration.
    Apr. 25, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security and Subcommittee on Economic Growth joint hearing 
entitled, ``Oversight of the Federal Government's Procurement 
of Ammunition.'' Witnesses: Nick Nayak, Ph.D., Chief 
Procurement Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mr. 
Humberto Medina, Assistant Director, National Firearms and 
Tactical Training Unit, U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, (Also Chair 
of the DHS Weapons and Ammunition Commodity Council); The 
Honorable Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., Inspector General, Office 
of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration; Mr. 
Jon Adler, National President, National Law Enforcement 
Officers Association.
    June 13, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Examining the Government's Record 
on Implementing the International Religious Freedom Act.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-
Large for International Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of 
State; Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., Chair, U.S. Commission on 
International Religious Freedom; Thomas F. Farr, Ph.D., 
Director of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for 
Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Ms. 
Tina Ramirez, President, Hardwired, Inc.; Mr. Amjad Mahmood 
Khan, National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim 
Community USA; Chris Seiple, Ph.D., President, Institute for 
Global Engagement.
    June 27, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Border Security Oversight: Identifying and 
Responding to Current Threats.'' Witnesses: Mr. Michael Fisher, 
Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection; Mr. 
David J. Murphy, Assisting Acting Commissioner, Customs and 
Border Protection; Mr. Thomas Homan, Executive Associate 
Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration 
and Custom Enforcement; Ms. Rebecca Gambler, Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    July 17, 2013, 10:15 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Border Security Oversight, Part 
II: Examining Asylum Requests.'' Witnesses: Mr. Joseph E. 
Langlois, Associate Director, Refugee, Asylum, and 
International Operations Directorate, U.S. Citizenship and 
Immigration Services.
    August 2, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security and Committee on Natural Resources' Public Lands and 
Environmental Regulation Subcommittee joint hearing entitled, 
``Missing Weapons at the National Park Service: Mismanagement 
and Lack of Accountability.'' Witnesses: Mr. Robert A. Knox, 
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Office of 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Interior; Ms. Kim A. 
Thorsen, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Public Safety, Resource 
Protection and Emergency Services, U.S. Department of Interior; 
The Honorable Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park 
Service, U.S. Department of the Interior; Ms. Teresa Chambers, 
Chief of the United States Park Police Force, National Park 
Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
    Nov. 14, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Border Security Oversight, Part 
III: Border Crossing Cards and B1/B2 Visas.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
John Wagner, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of 
Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Mr. John 
P. Woods, Assistant Director, National Security Investigations 
Division, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement, Mr. Edward J. Ramotowski, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, Bureau of Consular 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Mr. Juan Osuna, 
Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. 
Department of Justice.
    Nov. 20, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Abuse of Overtime at DHS: Padding 
Paychecks and Pensions at Taxpayer Expense.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
John Florence, Branch Chief, Use of Force Policy Division, 
Field Operations Academy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; 
The Honorable Carolyn N. Lerner, Special Counsel, U.S. Office 
of Special Counsel; Ms. Catherine V. Emerson, Chief Human 
Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mr. 
Ronald Vitiello, Deputy Chief, Office of Border Patrol, U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection; and Mr. Brandon Judd, President, 
National Border Patrol Council, American Federation of 
Government Employees.
    Feb. 27, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Afghanistan: Honoring the Heroes of 
Extortion 17.'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary Reid, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low 
Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of Defense; Ms. Deborah 
Skillman, Director, Casualty and Mortuary Affairs, U.S. 
Department of Defense; Colonel John M. Devillier, Commander, 
Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, Dover Air Force Base, 
Delaware, United States Air Force, Department of Defense; 
Colonel Kerk B. Brown, Director, Army Casualty and Mortuary 
Affairs Operations Center, United States Army, U.S. Department 
of Defense; Commander Aaron Brodsky, Director, Navy Casualty 
Services, United States Navy, U.S. Department of Defense.
    March 13, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Status of U.S. Foreign Assistance 
to Afghanistan in Anticipation of the U.S. Troop Withdrawal.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Donald L. Sampler, Jr., Assistant to the 
Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Mr. Charles M. Johnson, 
Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office.
    April 3, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Afghanistan: Identifying and Addressing 
Wasteful U.S. Government Spending.'' Witnesses: Mr. Donald 
Sampler, Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan 
and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Mr. John Sopko, Inspector General, Special 
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
    April 3, 2014, 2:30 p.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee 
on National Security and the Committee on the Judiciary 
Subcommittee on Immigration and border Security hearing 
entitled, ``Overturning 30 Years of Precedent: Is the 
Administration Ignoring the Dangers of Training Libyan Pilots 
and Nuclear Scientists?'' Witnesses: Mr. Alan Bersin, Assistant 
Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic 
Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Ms. Janice 
Kephart, CEO, Secure Identity Biometrics Association, Former 
Counsel to the 9/11 Commission; Mr. James M. Chaparro, 
Executive Vice President for Strategy Strategic Enterprise 
Solutions (SE Solutions); Mr. Frederic Wehrey, Ph.D., Senior 
Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace.
    September 18, 2014 2 p.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Protecting International Religious 
Freedom.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Sarah Sewall, 
Undersecretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human 
Rights, U.S. Department of State; Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., 
Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; 
Thomas Farr, Ph.D., Director, Religious Freedom Project, 
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, 
Georgetown University; Mr. Robert Smith, Managing Director and 
Regional Advisor for the United States International Center for 
Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham 
Young University; Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe, Special Counsel, Justice 
for Jos Project, Jubilee Campaign; Mr. Tad Stahnke, Vice 
President, Research and Analysis; Human Rights First.

                 FULL COMMITTEE BUSINESS MEETINGS HELD

January 22, 2013--Full Committee Organization Meeting

    Summary:
    (1) Adopted Committee Rules for the 113th Congress; and
    (2) Approved Subcommittee Membership.

February 5, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Oversight Plan 
for the 113th Congress. The Oversight Plan was approved by 
voice vote.
    ** Subcommittee assignments approved for Democrat Members 
recently named to the Committee.

February 14, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    Committee Report entitled, ``Billions of Federal Tax 
Dollars Misspent on New York's Medicaid Program.''
    Mr. Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    The report, as amended, was reported to the House 
favorably, by voice vote.

March 20, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    1. H.R. 249 (Chaffetz), the Federal Employee Tax 
Accountability Act of 2013.
    Rep. Speier offered an amendment to change the definition 
of ``seriously delinquent tax debt.'' She later withdrew the 
amendment.
    H.R. 249 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    2. H.R. 882 (Chaffetz), the Contracting and Tax 
Accountability Act of 2013.
    H.R. 882 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    3. H.R. 313 (Emerson/Farenthold), the Government Spending 
Accountability Act of 2013.
    Rep. Farenthold offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS).
    Rep. Clay offered an amendment to the Farenthold ANS 
expanding on the international conference rule to allow the 
head of an agency to grant a waiver in some circumstances. The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    Rep. Clay offered an amendment to the Farenthold ANS 
exempting the public disclosure requirements for materials used 
at a conference, as well as providing a detailed breakdown of 
expenses unless the total cost in either instance exceeded more 
than $50,000. Ch. Issa asked unanimous consent to strike any 
exemption for producing materials, and to change ``$50,000'' to 
``$10,000.'' There was no objection.
    The Clay amendment (as modified by the Issa U.C.) was 
agreed to by voice vote.
    Rep. Pocan offered an amendment to the Farenthold ANS to 
modify the language regarding annual travel expense limits. He 
later withdrew the amendment.
    The Farenthold ANS, as amended, was agreed to by voice 
vote.
    H.R. 313, as amended, was reported favorably to the House, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.
    4. H.R. 328 (Chaffetz), the Excess Federal Building and 
Property Disposal Act of 2013.
    H.R. 328 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    5. H.R. 1163 (Issa), the Federal Information Security 
Amendments Act of 2013.
    H.R. 1163 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    6. H.R. 1232 (Issa), the Federal Information Technology 
Acquisition Reform Act.
    H.R. 1232 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    7. H.R. 1211 (Issa), the FOIA Oversight and Implementation 
Act of 2013.
    Rep. Turner offered an amendment to add a section at the 
end of the bill--``Sec. 4. Applicability of FOIA.'' He later 
withdrew the amendment.
    Rep. Duckworth offered an amendment which added language 
regarding duplication fees. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    Rep. Turner offered an amendment which expanded on the 
requirements of the Government Accountability Office with 
regard to section 552 of title 5 of the U.S. Code. The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    Rep. Mica offered an amendment to add a section to the end 
of the bill to require each agency's Office of Inspector 
General to review FOIA compliance--``Sec. 4. Inspector General 
Review; Adverse Actions.'' The amendment was agreed to by voice 
vote.
    H.R. 1211, as amended, was reported favorably to the House, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.
    8. H.R. 1162 (Issa), the Government Accountability Office 
Improvement Act.
    H.R. 1162 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    9. H.R. 1133 (Duncan), the Presidential Library Donation 
Reform Act.
    H.R. 1133 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    10. H.R. 1104 (Clay), the Federal Advisory Committee Reform 
Act.
    H.R. 1104 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    11. H.R. 1246 (Norton), the D.C. CFO Vacancy Act.
    H.R. 1246 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    12. H.R. 1233 (Cummings), Presidential and Federal Records 
Act Amendments of 2013.
    Ch. Issa offered an amendment which added language 
regarding disclosure requirements for personal e-mail use 
regarding government business. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    H.R. 1233, as amended, was reported favorably to the House, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.
    13. H.R. 1234 (Cummings), the Electronic Message 
Preservation Act.
    Ch. Issa offered an amendment which added language 
regarding disclosure requirements for personal e-mail use 
regarding government business. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    H.R. 1234, as amended, was reported favorably to the House, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.

May 22, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    1. H.R. 2061 (Issa), the ``Digital Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2013.''
    Chairman Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS). The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    H.R. 2061 was reported favorably to the House, as amended, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.
    2. H.R. 568 (Ross), to amend title 5, United States Code, 
to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an 
annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time 
by Federal employees.
    Chairman Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS). The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    H.R. 568 was reported favorably to the House, as amended, a 
quorum being present, by voice vote.
    3. H.R. 1380 (Quigley), the ``Access to Congressionally 
Mandated Reports Act.''
    Chairman Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS). The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    H.R. 1380 was reported favorably to the House, as amended, 
a quorum being present, by voice vote.
    4. H.R. 2067 (Meadows), the ``Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and 
Trade Bureau Personnel Flexibilities Act.''
    H.R. 2067 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.
    5. H.R. 1171 (Benishek), the ``FOR VETS Act of 2013.''
    H.R. 1171 was reported favorably to the House, a quorum 
being present, by voice vote.

June 28, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    A resolution concerning whether Lois Lerner, the Director 
of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, waived 
her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when 
she made a statement at the Committee hearing on May 22, 2013.
    Rep. Norton offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 16 
Ayes to 20 Noes.
    Voting Aye: Cummings, Norton, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, 
Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Kelly, Davis, 
Welch, Caardenas, and Horsford.
    Voting No: Issa, Mica, Turner, Duncan, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, Hastings, 
Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, Meadows, Bentivolio, and 
DeSantis.
    The Chairman moved that the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform approve the resolution finding that Lois 
Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment privilege on May 22, 2013. 
The motion was approved by a recorded vote of 22 Ayes to 17 
Noes.
    Voting Aye: Issa, Mica, Turner, Duncan, McHenry, Jordan, 
Chaffetz, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
Gowdy, Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Massie, Collins, Meadows, 
Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    Voting No: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, 
Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Kelly, 
Davis, Welch, Horsford, and Lujan Grisham.

July 24, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    H.R. 2748, the Postal Reform Act of 2013--reported 
favorably, as amended, by a vote of 22-17.
    Voting yes: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    Voting no: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, 
Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Kelly, 
Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.

Amendments:

    (1) Cummings ANS--defeated by a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (2) Woodall--limits the size of non-cash compensation to 
very senior postal executives until the financial crisis is 
resolved--agreed to by voice vote.
    (3) Tierney--strikes Sec. 306 (Postal Service workers' 
compensation reform)--defeated by a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (4) Farenthold--adds new Sec. 703--ensures that the USPS 
adheres to generally accepted accounting principles in 
developing plans to return the USPS to solvency--agreed to by 
voice vote.
    (5) Lynch--strikes Sec. 102 (Delivery-point 
modernization)--defeated by a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (6) Meehan--to ensure that local communities have specific 
input into the delivery point modernization process--agreed to 
by voice vote.
    (7) Lynch--strikes Sec. 301 (Applicability of reduction-in-
force procedures)--defeated by a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (8) Lynch--strikes Sec. 501 (Treatment of Postal Service 
post-employment benefit funding projected surpluses)--defeated 
by a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (9) Turner en bloc (2 parts)--encourages the increased use 
of innovative mailpiece design as a way to spur the increased 
use of mail--agreed to by voice vote.
    (10) Pocan--regarding pre-fund requirement--WITHDRAWN
    (11) Davis--regarding air carriers of packages--WITHDRAWN
    (12) Meehan--adds Sec. 107 (Sense of Congress with respect 
to delivery points)--WITHDRAWN
    (13) Mica--``amends the Obama healthcare bill''--WITHDRAWN
    H.R. 2793, the District of Columbia Financial Efficiency 
Act of 2013--reported favorably, without amendment, by 
unanimous consent.
    H.R. 1541, the Common Sense in Compensation Act--reported 
favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    Amendments:
    (1) Meadows ANS--agreed to by voice vote (as amended by 
Lynch 2)
    (2) Lynch (to Meadows ANS)--waiver on 5% cap--agreed to by 
voice vote (as amended by Issa 3)
    (3) Issa (to Lynch)--agreed to by voice vote
    H.R. 2579, the Government Employee Accountability Act--
reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote
    Amendments:
    (1) Issa ANS (for Farenthold)--agreed to by voice vote, as 
amended.
    (2) Lynch (to Issa ANS)--regarding due process--defeated by 
a vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    (3) Connolly (to Issa ANS)--prohibits an agency from using 
the expedited termination procedure to retaliate against a 
Senior Executive Service whistleblower or to bring expedited 
termination against an SES employee who has a pending claim of 
whistleblower retaliation--agreed to by voice vote.
    (4) Cummings (to Issa ANS)--prohibits an agency from using 
the expedited termination procedure to discriminate against a 
Senior Executive Service employee or to bring expedited 
termination against an SES employee who has a pending claim of 
discrimination--agreed to by voice vote.
    (5) Speier (to Issa ANS)--The Speier amendment makes 
several changes to the standard for immediate termination, 
allowing an agency to terminate an Senior Executive Service 
(SES) employee for ``serious'' neglect of duty, 
misappropriation of funds, or malfeasance if the agency 
determines the SES employee acted in a manner that 
``knowingly'' endangers the interest of the agency mission--
agreed to by voice vote.
    (6) Lynch (to Issa ANS)--prevents an agency head from 
terminating a Senior Executive Service employee without an 
administrative waiting period (essentially gutting half of the 
bill). The effect of the amendment is to grant SES employees a 
minimum 30 days advance notice of the termination, a minimum of 
7 days to respond to the notice of termination, and the 
potential for an internal hearing (the procedures agencies 
currently follow when taking disciplinary action against an SES 
employee)--agreed to by voice vote.
    H.R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates Information and 
Transparency Act of 2013--reported favorably by a vote of 22-
17.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    Amendments:
    (1) Lynch--regarding sequestration--defeated by voice vote.
    (2) Connolly--to apply early stakeholder consultation 
requirement to ``any interested individual''--defeated by a 
vote of 17-22.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, 
Kelly, Davis, Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
Farenthold, Hastings, Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, 
Meadows, Bentivolio, and DeSantis.
    H.R. 1423, the Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act--reported 
favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    Amendments:
    (1) Speier--regarding duplication of funds and overlaps--
agreed to by voice vote.
    H.R. 2711, the Citizen Empowerment Act--reported favorably, 
as amended, by voice vote.
    Amendments:
    (1) Issa ANS--agreed to by voice vote.
    (2) Cummings (to Issa ANS)--inserting a new subsection 
``Coordination Provision''--defeated by vote of 14-18.
    Voting yes: Cummings, Maloney, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, 
Cooper, Connolly, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Davis, Welch, 
Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting no: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Walberg, Lankford, 
Amash, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, Farenthold, Hastings, 
Lummis, Woodall, Massie, Collins, and Bentivolio.
    H.R. 1660, the Government Customer Service Improvement Act 
of 2013--reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    Amendments:
    (1) Issa ANS--agreed to by voice vote.

October 29, 2013--Full Committee Business Meeting

    Summary:
    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met in 
open session to consider:
    H.R. 2860 (Farenthold), the OPM IG Act--reported favorably, 
by voice vote.
    H.R. 3343 (Norton), to amend the District of Columbia Home 
Rule Act to clarify the rules regarding the determination of 
the compensation of the Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia--reported favorably, by voice vote.
    H.R. 3316 (Lankford), the Grant Reform and New Transparency 
Act of 2013 (or the ``GRANT Act'').
    Ms. Speier offered an amendment to allow agencies to reduce 
the pre-grant financial management evaluation process only for 
grantees that have received more than $10 million in federal 
grants in the past 3 years. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    Mr. Connolly offered an amendment to substitute posting 
only grant application abstracts for the posting of full 
successful grant applications. The amendment failed by a 
recorded vote of 15-19.
    Voting Aye: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, 
Lynch, Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Kelly, 
Welch, Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    Voting No: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, DesJarlais, Gowdy, Farenthold, 
Hastings, Woodall, Massie, Collins, Meadows, Bentivolio, and 
DeSantis.
    Mr. Pocan offered an amendment and then withdrew the 
amendment.
    The bill, H.R. 3316, was reported favorably, as amended, by 
a vote of 19-15.
    Voting Aye: Issa, Mica, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, 
Walberg, Lankford, Amash, DesJarlais, Gowdy, Farenthold, 
Hastings, Woodall, Massie, Collins, Meadows, Bentivolio, and 
DeSantis.
    Voting No: Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, 
Connolly, Speier, Cartwright, Pocan, Duckworth, Kelly, Welch, 
Caardenas, and Lujan Grisham.
    H.R. 3345 (Issa), the Stop Unworthy Spending Act (or the 
``SUSPEND Act'').
    Mr. Chaffetz (with Ms. Speier and Mr. Tierney) offered an 
amendment to further strengthen the SUSPEND Act by requiring 
timely referral and consideration of suspension and debarment 
cases. Specifically, the amendment provides a 30-day time limit 
for the referred cases to be either accepted or rejected by the 
suspension and debarment official. It also requires all S&D 
cases to be resolved within 6 months from the initial referral 
date. The amendment further requires that the annual report to 
Congress include the number and summary of any instances where 
the agency head made determinations to allow a suspended or 
debarred entity to receive new contracts or grants. The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3345, was reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote.

                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 113th 
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:
     Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Mismanagement.
     Financial Sector Regulation--including the 
implementation of Dodd-Frank, reviewing the FCIC, the creation 
of the CFPB, 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 Accountability Office--including the 
effectiveness of federal government inspectors general and 
their freedom from political interference, and ensuring the 
independence and integrity of the GAO, 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 for a pilot program at GSA to reduce the federal 
deficit by disposing of excess property.
     Government Contracting--including information 
technology acquisition and suspension and debarment.
     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.
     Energy--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.
     Environment--including oversight of the management 
of the Environmental Protection Agency.
     Healthcare and Entitlements--including the 
Affordable Care Act and federal disability programs.
     District of Columbia--including D.C. fiscal 
management, and general oversight of the D.C. government.
     Census--including ensuring the accuracy of the 
2020 census.
     National Archives and Federal Records--including 
improving transparency of presidential and federal records.
     Government Management and the Federal Workforce--
including pay and benefits, the use of ``official time'' to 
conduct union activities, and the administration of the Office 
of Personnel Management.
     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 growing delays in the transition process from DOD 
to Veterans Affairs health care systems for wounded warriors, 
contracting in Afghanistan, and the failures that led to the 
Benghazi attack.
     Homeland Security--border security 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


Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Mismanagement

    The Committee held numerous hearings in 2013 focused on 
waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement throughout the federal 
government. On February 5th, the Committee held a hearing 
entitled, ``Government Spending: How Can We Best Address the 
Billions of Dollars Wasted Every Year?'' The Committee heard 
from Citizens Against Government Waste alongside Taxpayers for 
Common Sense. Dan Blair, a Bush administration OMB official, 
testified on behalf of National Academy of Public 
Administration, and John Kamensky, a former staffer for Vice 
President Gore, represented the IBM Center for the Business of 
Government.
    In February, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs convened a hearing to coincide 
with the fourth anniversary of the passage of the stimulus in 
2009. The witnesses were experts on government spending and 
unemployment insurance, including Casey Mulligan, a University 
of Chicago economist who spoke about the impact that increased 
unemployment insurance has on the jobless rate and 
beneficiaries' likeliness to seek full-time employment.
    On April 16th, 2013, the Committee held a hearing to 
examine how the National Archives and Records Administration, 
the National Park Service, and the Smithsonian planned to 
implement spending adjustments related to sequestration. 
Archives and the Smithsonian appeared to have started planning 
for the possibility of sequestration as far back as late 2011 
and therefore did not anticipate significant impacts to the 
public. Witnesses included David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the 
United States, National Archives and Records Administration; 
Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service; and Dr. G. 
Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
    Continuing the Committee's multi-year oversight of the 
DOE's Loan Program Office, on April 24th, 2013, Mr. Jordan's 
subcommittee held a hearing on loan given to Fisker Automotive. 
The hearing explored the circumstances leading to the DOE 
offering taxpayer support for Fisker and its ill prospects for 
repayment. Witnesses at the hearing included Henrik Fisker, 
Former Executive Chairman, Fisker Automotive; Tony Posawatz, 
CEO, Fisker Automotive; Bernhard Koehler, Chief Operating 
Officer, Fisker Automotive.
    On June 6, 2013, the Committee held a hearing to examine 
the IRS's wasteful spending culture and excessive agency 
conference spending. This abuse of taxpayer funds was also the 
subject of an audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration. Witnesses included J. Russell George, Inspector 
General, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; 
Gregory Kutz, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration; Faris Fink, 
Commissioner, Small Business and Self-Employed Division, 
Internal Revenue Service; and Danny Werfel, Acting 
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service.
    On October 1, 2013 the Committee held a hearing to examine 
the recent EPA Inspector General investigation into former EPA 
employee John Beale, who pleaded guilty to defrauding the EPA 
and receiving approximately $900,000 in pay for work not 
performed. Mr. Beale also allegedly impersonated a CIA agent. 
Witnesses included: the Honorable Arthur A. Elkins, Jr., 
Inspector General, EPA; Patrick Sullivan, Deputy Inspector 
General for Investigations, EPA; John C. Beale, Former Senior 
Policy Advisor, EPA; Robert Brenner, Former Director of Policy 
Analysis and Review, Office of Air and Radiation, EPA; and the 
Honorable Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, EPA.
    On October 16, 2013 the Committee held a joint hearing with 
the Committee on Natural Resources to examine the National Park 
Service's closure decisions. Chairman Issa issued a subpoena to 
secure the testimony of Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National 
Park Service. Other witnesses included Kevin Gardner, a legal 
expert on private concessionaires; Anna Eberly, Managing 
Director, Claude Moore Colonial Farm; and Mark Hoffman, 
Chairman, National Tourism Association.

Inspectors General

    On January 15, 2014, the Committee held a hearing on the 
critical role Inspectors General play in reducing waste and 
improving efficiency at federal agencies. The hearing provided 
an opportunity for Members of the Committee to learn about 
important issues the IG community faces and legislative 
initiatives that the Council of the Inspectors General on 
Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) supports. The hearing focused 
on whether IGs have adequate tools to thoroughly investigate 
allegations of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, 
including whether they would benefit from having the authority 
to issue subpoenas to compel testimony from non-government 
witnesses. Witnesses described challenges that IGs face with 
respect to access to documents and witnesses, and they 
suggested amendments to the Inspector General Act that would 
allow the federal IGs to conduct more robust and nimble 
investigations.
    On August 5, 2014, 47 Inspectors General sent a letter to 
Congress describing ``serious limitations on access to records 
that have recently impeded the work of Inspectors General.'' 
The letter identified three IGs whose work has been 
obstructed--Department of Justice Inspector General Michael 
Horowitz, Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General 
Arthur Elkins, and Peace Corps Inspector General Kathy Buller. 
On September 10, 2014, the Committee held a hearing where 
Members heard directly from those three IGs.
    Horowitz testified that the Inspector General Act should be 
amended so he can investigate misconduct by Justice Department 
attorneys. Currently, those investigations are handled by the 
Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility. 
Horowitz was not able to investigate the New Black Panther 
Party for voter intimidation, prosecutorial misconduct with 
respect to the prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens, and the 
Justice Department's internal review of the conduct of the 
drafters of a memorandum that advised the Bush White House on 
torture, among other things. Horowitz also requested that an 
amendment to a section of the IG Act that denies him access to 
certain categories of documents--such as Grand Jury documents 
and national security-related documents.
    Elkins gave the Committee an update on his effort to obtain 
attorney-client privileged documents from the Chemical Safety 
Board (CSB). On September 5, 2013, Elkins sent a ``seven-day 
letter'' to Congress regarding CSB's refusal to cooperate with 
his investigation of a leak of a whistleblower's identity. 
Section 5(d) of the Inspector General Act, as amended, requires 
IGs to report immediately to the agency head whenever the IG 
becomes aware of ``particularly serious or flagrant problems, 
abuses, or deficiencies relating to the administration of 
programs or operations.''\1\ Reports made pursuant to Section 
5(d) of the IG Act are commonly referred to as ``seven-day 
letters.''\2\ Because IGs typically reserve the use of a seven-
day letter for only the most urgent matters, the Committee 
takes these matters very seriously. On June 19, 2014, the 
Committee held a hearing addressing both the seven-day letter 
and gross mismanagement and dysfunction at the Chemical Safety 
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    Buller testified that the Peace Corps refused to provide 
the Office of Inspector General access to certain information 
related to sexual assaults on Peace Corps volunteers. Buller 
testified that this prevented her from tracking sexual assaults 
pursuant to requirements in the Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection 
Act of 2011. In a summary of its legal position, the Peace 
Corps claims that the Kate Puzey Act overrides the IG Act's 
requirement that an agency provide its IG all requested 
documents and information. On June 24, 2014, Committee staff 
conducted a deposition of the Peace Corps General Counsel. 
Shortly before the deposition, the Peace Corps and the IG 
reached a memorandum of understanding that allowed the IG to 
access restricted reporting information. During the hearing, 
Buller testified about her concerns that the IG was forced to 
enter into such an agreement to obtain what she is legally 
entitled to by the IG Act.
    On September 17, 2014, the Committee unanimously passed 
H.R. 5492, a bill to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to 
strengthen the independence of the Inspectors General. The bill 
was based in part on input from the IGs who testified at the 
Committee's January 15 and September 10, 2014 hearings.

Financial Sector

    On April 24, 2013, the Committee held an oversight hearing 
on the Small Business Lending Fund. Created in 2010, the goal 
of the SBLF was to increase the availability of credit to small 
businesses, allowing them to expand and hire. The program 
permitted the Department of the Treasury to invest up to $30 
billion in small banks. However, the Special Inspector General 
for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) found that 
banks used the SBLF funds to exit TARP, rather than make loans 
to small businesses. The Special Inspector General testified 
that TARP banks participating in SBLF did not effectively 
increase lending to small business, and offered specific 
recommendations to improve the program. The Treasury Department 
was unavailable to participate in the hearing on that date.
    On July 18, 2013, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs held an oversight hearing 
examining the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on community banks. 
It is widely acknowledged that community banks in no way 
contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. Nonetheless, Dodd-
Frank imposes onerous regulatory burdens on community banks.
    Because small banks are the least able to absorb the 
tremendous compliance costs, the end result has been growing 
trend of bank closures and consolidation. Ironically, this only 
contributed to the ``too big to fail'' phenomenon that left 
taxpayers on the hook for poor business decisions. The 
Subcommittee received testimony from the President of a 
community bank in St. Augustine, Florida, a former Member of 
Congress, and two academics who have studied Dodd-Frank's 
impact on community banking.
    The Committee is overseeing the Securities and Exchange 
Commission's consideration of whether to recommend issuing a 
proposed rule mandating that public companies disclose their 
political expenditures. Documents produced to the Committee 
demonstrate that the SEC's professional staff strongly opposed 
such a rulemaking. Staff argued that a corporate political 
disclosure rule is well-outside the Commission's mandate, 
unnecessary in light of existing shareholder proxy statement 
rules, and inappropriate given outstanding mandatory rules in 
the Dodd-Frank Act and JOBS Act. Notwithstanding these 
objections, the Commission elected to place the rulemaking on 
the Office of Management and Budget's Unified Regulatory 
Agenda. Documents produced to the Committee indicate this 
decision was the product of intense political pressure from 
external parties. SEC has notified the Committee that staff is 
not working on a rule proposal, and neither the staff nor the 
Commission has reached any conclusion as to whether there 
should be a proposed rulemaking in this area.
    The Majority staff released a memo detailing the objections 
by the professional staff, and establishing that consideration 
of the rule was the product of inappropriate political pressure 
on the Democrat Commissioners. Following release of the memo, 
the Commission suspended further consideration of the rule.
    The Committee is conducting oversight of the Financial 
Stability Oversight Council. Created by Title I of the Dodd-
Frank Act, FSOC is constituted of a broad swath of federal 
financial regulators. The Committee is concerned that FSOC's 
operations may be infringing on the independence and core 
competence of the Council's constituent regulatory bodies. This 
infringement is particularly troubling in the cases where the 
regulatory agency is headed by an independent, bipartisan 
commission and not a single political appointee. The Committee 
is particularly concerned with the Council's authority under 
Section 120 of the Dodd-Frank Act to issue formal 
recommendations for regulatory action.
    In July 2013, the Committee requested documents and 
communications from member-agencies of the Financial Stability 
Oversight Council, regarding their participation in Council 
activities. The Securities and Exchange Commission provided 
documents regarding efforts to designate asset management 
companies as ``systemically important financial institutions'' 
(SIFIs) subject to enhanced regulatory scrutiny. On April 7, 
2014, the Committee wrote to Treasury Secretary Lew, presenting 
these concerns and requesting documents related to the OFR 
study. In response to the Committee's oversight of this matter, 
FSOC pulled back from its plan to pursue SIFI designation of 
large asset management companies, focusing instead on risky 
practices within the industry.
    The Committee is continuing its oversight of the Export-
Import Bank of the United States. On July 29, 2014, the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs held an oversight hearing examining allegations of 
corruption at the Bank. At this hearing, Johnny Gutierrez, a 
senior official in the Trade Finance, invoked his right against 
self-incrimination in response to allegations of corruption and 
bribery. The Bank's Office of Inspector General informed the 
Committee that it is currently investigating over forty 
allegations of fraud within or against the Bank, but the IG has 
not developed evidence of widespread employee misconduct or 
systemic employee involvement in fraud schemes at the Bank.
    In November 2014, the Committee partnered with the 
Committee on Financial Services to secure unredacted 
transcripts of meetings of the Bank's Board of Directors. The 
Committee on Financial Services requested this information in 
the course of its obligation to consider legislation 
reauthorizing the Bank. The Bank refused to provide this 
information, and on November 6, 2014, Chairman Issa authorized 
a subpoena to secure its procurement.
    The Committee is conducting oversight of the Department of 
Justice's litigation policy with respect to allegations of 
mortgage-backed securities fraud by major U.S. banks. The 
Department's litigation policy is to purse pre-suit settlement 
agreements, rather than take cases to trial. This strategy 
calls into question the competence of the evidence against the 
banks. Furthermore, by concluding a settlement agreement rather 
than securing a civil judgment, the Department is able to 
``shift'' money penalties that would be paid to the U.S. 
Treasury, to bank-administered ``consumer relief.'' In effect, 
the Department is leaving taxpayer money on the table, in an 
effort to pursue its political goals. On July 24, 2014, the 
Committee requested information from DOJ explaining its 
residential mortgage-backed security fraud litigation and 
settlement policy.
    The Committee is continuing its investigation of a multi-
agency initiative forcing banks to terminate relationships with 
businesses and merchants disfavored by the Administration, 
known as ``Operation Choke Point.'' In response to a document 
request of January 9, 2014, the Department of Justice provided 
over 853 pages of internal memoranda, presentations, and 
communications. In light of this information, on June 9, 2014, 
the Committee expanded its investigation to the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; the agency is continuing to cooperate 
with the Committee. In November 2014, the Committee made 
similar requests of the Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The 
Committee's investigation of Operation Choke Point is ongoing.

Consumer Protection

    On January 4, 2013, Chairman Issa and Ranking Member 
Cummings jointly wrote the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System (Fed) and the Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency (OCC) to learn more about discussions both agencies 
had to amend consent orders they had made in April 2011 with 
several mortgage servicing companies regarding loan servicing 
and foreclosure processing. In May 2013, Chairman Issa and 
Ranking Member Cummings also wrote the FRB and the OCC to 
request information regarding the amended consent orders the 
agencies ultimately entered into with these companies on 
January 7, 2013.
    Committee staff reviewed responsive documents at the OCC on 
June 25, 2013, and reviewed responsive documents at the FRB on 
November 1, 2013. On March 4, 2014, Chairman Issa and Ranking 
Member Cummings sent a letter requesting that both the Fed and 
the OCC produce a small subset of documents from among those 
reviewed by the Committee staff in camera and both the OCC and 
the Fed eventually produced the requested documents. The 
documents produced by the OCC show that there were no reliable 
data on error rates at the time the Independent Foreclosure 
Review (IFR) was terminated, but preliminary data were 
available showing double-digit error rates in some error 
categories at some servicers. Further analysis to identify the 
full extent of harm could not be completed because the IFR was 
terminated.

The Government Accountability Office

    On February 14, 2013, the Committee held a hearing on the 
Government Accountability Office's (GAO) high risk list 
entitled ``Exploring GAO's High Risk List and Opportunities for 
Reform.'' The hearing reviewed GAO's biannual high risk list, 
which identified 30 areas of government that are most 
susceptible to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. 
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro testified about the high risk 
areas, including climate change, federal contract management, 
modernizing insurance and benefit programs, and transforming 
the Department of Defense's program management.\3\
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Government Reform, Hearing, ``Exploring GAO's High Risk List and 
Opportunities for Reform,'' February 14, 2013. Available at: http://
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    On April 9, 2013, the Committee held a hearing on the GAO's 
third annual report on duplication, overlap, fragmentation, and 
opportunities for cost saving in government. The hearing was 
entitled, ``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO's 2013 
Report on Duplicative Federal Programs,'' and Comptroller 
General Dodaro testified. The report identified 31 new areas, 
including 17 instances of fragmentation, duplication, and 
overlap, and 14 areas of potential cost savings. Comptroller 
General Dodaro testified that many of the nearly 300 
recommendations GAO had made in past reports remained 
unaddressed.\4\
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Government Reform, Hearing, ``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing 
GAO's 2013 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs,'' April 9, 2013. 
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    On July 10, 2013, the Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to 
Track Money and Performance.'' Comptroller General Dodaro 
testified about GAO's work on the Government Performance and 
Results Modernization Act (GPRAMA) and the 2012 Financial 
Report of the U.S. Government. According to two reports 
released by GAO on June 26, 2013, the federal government has 
not fully implemented the program performance measurements 
established under GPRAMA, and the measures that have been 
implemented are not always useful to government program 
managers or Congress. GAO also found that only 37 percent of 
managers had conducted an evaluation for any program, 
operation, or project in the last five years.\5\
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Government Reform, Hearing, ``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports 
Show Feds Struggling to Track Money and Performance,'' July 10, 2013. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unaccountable-
government-gao-reports-show-feds-struggling-to-track-money-and-
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    On April 8, 2014, the Committee held a hearing on GAO's 
fourth annual report on duplication, overlap and fragmentation 
in government programs. The hearing, entitled ``Reducing Waste 
in Government: Addressing GAO's 2014 Report on Duplicative 
Federal Programs,'' allowed Members to question GAO Comptroller 
General Gene Dodaro on opportunities for cost savings in 
government. Comptroller General Dodaro testified that the 
report identified 11 areas where agencies may be able to 
achieve greater efficiency or effectiveness and opportunities 
to avoid costs or enhance federal revenue in 15 areas.\6\ In 
order to address these issues, GAO identified 64 new actions 
that Congress or the executive branch could take to reduce 
waste caused by duplication.\7\ Comptroller General Dodaro also 
testified that of the 370 actions recommended in the previous 
reports, only 123 have been fully addressed.\8\
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Government Reform, Hearing, ``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing 
GAO's 2014 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs,'' April 8, 2014. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/reducing-waste-
government-addressing-gaos-2014-report-duplicative-federal-programs/.
    \7\ U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, Hearing, ``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing 
GAO's 2014 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs,'' April 8, 2014. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/reducing-waste-
government-addressing-gaos-2014-report-duplicative-federal-programs/.
    \8\ U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, Hearing, ``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing 
GAO's 2014 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs,'' April 8, 2014. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/reducing-waste-
government-addressing-gaos-2014-report-duplicative-federal-programs/.
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    GAO has consistently reported to the Committee that a lack 
of data hinders its ability to conduct thorough and 
comprehensive audits. GAO's work is complicated by the 
agencies' inability, unwillingness, or delay in providing 
accurate data. This, in turn, delays the transmission of 
information to Congress, thus inhibiting Congress' ability to 
provide the highest service to its constituents, the 
taxpayers.\9\
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States. ``Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government 
Programs Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue.'' (April 8, 2014) 
Available at http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/GAO-
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    GAO cannot provide more specific estimates because most 
agencies cannot provide program specific spending information. 
Many agencies could not sufficiently respond to questions about 
internal management of programs, funds, and/or documentation. 
The DATA Act, which became law this year, requires agencies to 
develop program activity spending data. At the Committee's 2014 
hearing, Comptroller General Dodaro noted that the 
implementation of the DATA Act will address this problem.\10\
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Addressing GAO's 2014 Report on Duplicative Federal Programs.'' U.S. 
House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 
(April 8, 2014) available at http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/
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Federal Real Property Disposal

    On January 22, 2013, Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz 
reintroduced the ``Excess Federal Building and Property 
Disposal Act of 2013.'' This bill, H.R. 328, directs the 
Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to 
conduct a pilot program, in consultation with the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for the expedited 
disposal of real property that is no longer meeting the needs 
of the Federal Government. The bill establishes a grant program 
under which homeless-serving organizations use a portion of 
property sale proceeds under the pilot to provide permanent 
housing for the homeless. H.R. 328 also makes permanent changes 
to the Federal property disposal process and incentivizes 
agencies to appropriately manage and efficiently dispose of 
their real property assets. The bill was unanimously agreed to 
by voice vote at a Committee mark up on March 20, 2013.
    The Government Operations Subcommittee, led by Chairman 
John Mica, held several hearings highlighting excess and 
underutilized federal buildings. On February 27, 2013, Chairman 
Mica held a hearing entitled, ``Failures in Managing Federal 
Real Property: Billions in Losses.'' David Wise, director of 
the Physical Infrastructure Team at the Government 
Accountability Office (GAO), Dorothy Robyn, Commissioner of 
Public Building Services at GSA, and Leonard Gilroy, Director 
of the Government Reform Reason Foundation, served as hearing 
witnesses. The hearing brought to light the facts that 
nationally, the federal government owns 77,000 structures that 
have been deemed vacant or underutilized--14,000 have been 
deemed excess, and the government spends $1.67 billion per year 
to maintain and operate these properties. David Wise testified 
that poor communication between agencies and out-of-date or 
unreliable data on the condition of federal properties has 
exacerbated this problem.
    On March 8, 2013, the Subcommittee held a field hearing 
entitled, ``Addressing Unused and Vacant Federal Courthouses: A 
Case Study in Miami-Dade, Florida'' at the David W. Dyer 
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Miami, Florida. This 
particular courthouse has been vacant for approximately five 
years. GSA has struggled to reposition it, and, unfortunately, 
it costs the taxpayers $1.2 million annually to maintain.
    On April 25, 2013, the Subcommittee held a field hearing 
entitled, ``Government Operations Oversight: Addressing Unused 
and Vacant Federal Property,'' in GSA's vacant L Street 
Warehouse in Washington, D.C. The hearing examined the cost to 
the taxpayers of underperforming or vacant assets and, in 
particular, the status of the vacant GSA L Street Warehouse, 
which costs GSA approximately $70,000 per year to operate and 
maintain. In addition, the hearing also highlighted the 
continued problems with the collection and accuracy of data 
contained in the Federal Real Property Profile, a database 
owned by OMB.
    On February 10, 2014, Chairman Mica held a hearing 
entitled, ``Assessing NASA's Real Property Assets at the 
Kennedy Space Center'' at the Kennedy Space Center near Cocoa 
Beach, Florida. The hearing explored NASA's plan for the 
operations, maintenance, and use by private interests of the 
unneeded launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center, as well as 
the U.S. Air Force's plans for the 600,000+ of underutilized 
space located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).
    Since December of 2011, Chairman Issa and Government 
Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mica have been requesting data 
pertaining to all federal real property from the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), including those properties which 
OMB may consider to be ``high value assets'' (those with an 
appraisal value greater than $50 million). This database is 
known as the Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP). On March 24, 
2014, the Committee wrote to OMB requesting access to the FRPP 
data, again to no avail. Thus, on May 23, 2014, the Committee 
subpoenaed OMB for all underutilized and excess properties 
listed in the FRPP, including those assets valued at greater 
than $50 million. On May 27, 2014, almost three years after the 
original request, OMB provided documents and information to the 
Committee.
    In response, on July 29, 2014, the Government Operations 
Subcommittee held a hearing entitled, ``Federal Real Property: 
Eliminating Waste and Mismanagement of Real Property Assets,'' 
to examine the management of excess and underutilized real 
property listed in the FRPP. Committee staff analysis and 
witness testimony from OMB, GSA and the Department of Veterans 
Affairs confirmed what GAO reports: the thoroughness and 
accuracy of the FRPP is in a woeful state, and the federal 
government continues to hold expensive assets that it does not 
need. As of fall 2014, the 4,209 properties classified as 
``underutilized properties'' in the database account for over 
24 million square feet of property, cost approximately $95.7 
million per year to operate and have a total replacement value 
of over $8 billion. Of these properties listed in the FRPP 
data, 156 of these properties cannot be disposed of for various 
reasons, such as security concerns, but 1,411 properties sit 
inactive or underutilized. The 3,293 properties that have been 
declared excess account for approximately 15.3 million square 
feet, cost $37.2 million per year in operating costs and have a 
replacement value totaling nearly $6.5 billion. 1,114 
properties have been classified as unable to be disposed, while 
1,563 (just under half) properties are slated to be disposed. 
The remaining 616 properties are divided as such: 357 have been 
reported excess, and 259 have had reports of excess submitted, 
but not yet accepted by GSA. The agencies with the largest 
number of underutilized properties are the Departments of 
Interior (1,542 properties), Agriculture (749), and Energy 
(723). These same three agencies have the highest number of 
excess properties: 1,075, 956 and 593, respectively.

Government Contracting

            Suspension and Debarment
    In June 2013, the Committee held a hearing entitled: 
``Protecting Taxpayer Dollars: Is the Government Using 
Suspension and Debarment Effectively?'' GAO had identified 
serious weaknesses in the suspension & debarment programs of 
numerous agencies, which were supposed to keep the over $1 
trillion taxpayer dollars awarded annually in contracts and 
grants out of the hands of individuals and companies who should 
not get them. Witnesses from a nonpartisan public interest 
group and a law firm with extensive practice in the field of 
suspension and debarment pointed out persistent problems with 
procedural inconsistencies among various agency policies and 
practice and the lack of transparency and timeliness in 
handling cases. These fractured practices, in turn, led to the 
government-wide excluded parties database used by all 
contracting and grant officers remaining incomplete and 
unreliable. The Committee, in response, introduced and advanced 
a bipartisan legislation that reforms suspension and debarment 
procedures and overhauls the organizational management of 
suspension and debarment activity across the government.
            Government Contracting and Information Technology 
                    Acquisition
    From the beginning of the 113th Congress, mismanagement of 
federal information technology (IT) investments and the 
weakness in overall acquisition practices have been a priority 
of the Committee, and the Committee held a series of hearings 
on the subject. In January, the Committee held a hearing 
entitled, ``Wasting Information Technology Dollars: How Can the 
Federal Government Reform its IT Investment Strategy?'' This 
hearing confirmed that despite spending more than $600 billion 
over the past decade, federal IT investments, too often, run 
over budget, behind schedule, or never deliver on the promised 
solution or functionality. Industry experts have estimated that 
as much as 25 percent of the annual $80 billion spent on IT is 
attributable to mismanaged or duplicative IT investments.
    In February 2013, the Committee held a follow-up hearing 
entitled, ``Time to Reform IT Acquisition: The Federal IT 
Acquisition Reform Act'' during which the Committee heard from 
a variety of industry experts, academia, and government IT 
leaders regarding the ways to reform IT acquisition as proposed 
in the draft Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
    In May 2013, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held 
a field hearing in Fairfax, Virginia entitled, ``Data Centers 
and the Cloud: Is the Government Optimizing New Information 
Technologies Opportunities to Save Taxpayers Money?'' In July, 
the Subcommittee held a follow-up hearing entitled ``Data 
Centers and the Cloud Part II: The Federal Government's Take on 
Optimizing New Information Technologies Opportunities to Save 
Taxpayers Money.'' The two hearings revealed serious weaknesses 
in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), an 
OMB-driven program to reduce waste and duplication in 
government IT infrastructure. Weaknesses included the lack of 
complete inventory of data centers to be closed or 
consolidated, the lack of consistent method for tracking cost 
savings, and the lack of adequate management oversight over the 
governance of the FDCCI program. GAO witness also provided the 
current list of 17 troubled IT investments with the total value 
of $102 billion, highlighting the significance of the need for 
a reform.
    Taking into consideration various findings and 
recommendations from the above hearings and extensive 
stakeholder feedback, the Committee advanced the bipartisan IT 
acquisition reform legislation as an amendment to the House 
version of Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
    With respect to oversight of general acquisition practices, 
in April, the Subcommittee on National Security held a hearing 
entitled, ``Contracting to Feed U.S. Troops in Afghanistan: How 
did the Defense Department end up in a Multi-Billion Dollar 
Billing Dispute?'' This hearing examined problems associated 
with the Defense Department's subsistence prime vendor contract 
in Afghanistan with Supreme Foodservice GmbH (Supreme) a 
privately held foreign company based in Amsterdam. Witnesses 
from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the prime 
contractor confirmed that while the scope of the contract 
dramatically expanded to meet the needs of the military 
operations within Afghanistan, the parties never finalized or 
definitized the contract terms and prices, resulting in ongoing 
legal dispute and overpayments. On December 8, 2014, the 
company pleaded guilty to defrauding the U.S. Government of 
millions of dollars.
    In June 2013, the Committee held a hearing entitled, ``The 
IRS Contracts with Strong Castle, Inc.'' examining contracting 
improprieties and mismanagement at the Internal Revenue 
Service. This was the result of the Committee's 4-month long 
investigation after learning that during 2012, the IRS awarded 
contracts with a potential value of more than $500 million to 
Strong Castle, Inc., which had no federal contracts prior to 
2012. The Committee's investigation has raised serious 
questions about the integrity of the acquisition process at the 
IRS and how the agency is using the taxpayer money it collects.
    From the beginning of the 113th Congress, mismanagement of 
federal information technology (IT) investments and the 
weakness in overall acquisition practices have been a priority 
of the Committee. We were disappointed when last year the 
committee-reported the Federal Information Technology 
Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) legislation that was pushed 
through the House and incorporated in the FY 2014 House-passed 
NDAA was stripped out of the final law. On February 25, H.R. 
1232 was passed out of the Committee by voice vote and sent to 
the floor where it passed under suspension.
    In addition, in May, 2014, the Issa/Connolly FITARA 
amendment to NDAA was approved by voice vote as part of an en 
bloc floor amendment to the FY 2015 NDAA. The House version of 
the FY 2015 NDAA, H.R. 4435, was passed by the House on May 22, 
2014, and FITARA is therefore germane to the final FY 2015 
NDAA.
    Momentum for FITARA grew through the course of the summer 
in the Senate, when Sen. Tom Udall, the Subcommittee Chairman 
of the Senate FSGG Appropriations Subcommittee, was joined by 
two other Senators on the subcommittee in introducing S. 1843, 
the Federal Information Technology Savings, Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2013--a subset of FITARA, including the CIO 
reforms. Senate momentum on FITARA culminated on September 18, 
2014 when HSGAC voted out a version of FITARA with some 
significant changes. The Senate version maintained provisions 
to enhance CIO authority, as well as several contracting 
transparency provisions. Since then, the Committee, in close 
collaboration with HSGAC, the intelligence, and the armed 
services committees of both chambers, was able to work out the 
differences and come up with a compromise language.
    On December 4, 2014, the House passed FY 2015 NDAA, which 
included, in Title VIII, Subtitle D, a consensus version of 
FITARA. FITARA, co-sponsored by Representatives Darrell Issa 
(R-Calif.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Senators Tom Coburn 
(R-Okla.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), would improve how the 
federal government acquires, implements and manages its 
information technology investments by giving agency Chief 
Information Officers (CIOs) more authority over the budget, 
governance, and personnel processes for agency IT investments, 
and by improving transparency and review processes of agency IT 
programs.
    Specifically, FITARA will:
     CIO Authority Enhancements--Give civilian agency 
CIOs more authority over the budget, governance and personnel 
processes for agency IT investments. One central CIO in each 
agency shall approve the appointment of any other component-
level CIOs within the agency. This, along with the 
corresponding empowerment of the CIO in the Department of 
Defense, would significantly enhance CIO's role throughout the 
government.
     Transparency & Risk Management--Make agency IT 
investments more transparent to the public and require agencies 
to review troubled investments.
     Portfolio Review--Require agencies to annually 
review all of their IT investments to eliminate duplication and 
waste. For example, in fiscal year 2011 budget submissions, 
agencies reported 622 separate investments totaling $2.4 
billion in human resource management systems, and 580 
investments totaling $2.7 billion in financial management 
systems.
     Data Center Consolidation--Require more than 9,000 
federal data centers to be consolidated and optimized to 
achieve greatest usage, efficiency and cost savings as 
recommended by GAO.
     Acquisition Workforce--Develop an IT acquisition 
cadre, including highly-skilled program and project managers.
     Strategic Sourcing--Require proper consideration 
of the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) by 
contracting personnel to encourage the government to purchase 
through enterprise-wide contracts that leverage the purchasing 
power of the entire federal government.
     Government-wide Software Purchasing--Require 
development of an enhanced government-wide software purchasing 
program that agencies may use to lower acquisition and 
management costs.

Open Government and Technology

    On March 13, 2013, the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform held a Committee hearing on open government 
and transparency in government entitled, ``Addressing 
Transparency in the Federal Bureaucracy: Moving Toward A More 
Open Government.'' The Committee heard testimony from 
representatives of transparency watchdog groups, including Ms. 
Angela Canterbury, Director of Public Policy, Project on 
Government Oversight; Mr. Jim Harper, Director of Information 
Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Mr. Daniel Schuman, Policy 
Counsel, The Sunlight Foundation; and Ms. Celia Wexler, Senior 
Washington Representative, Center for Science and Democracy, 
Union of Concerned Scientists. The witnesses suggested areas of 
reform needed in the Freedom of Information Act and other open 
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    On September 10, 2013, the Committee held a Committee 
hearing entitled, ``Preventing Violations of Federal 
Transparency Laws.'' Witnesses included the Honorable Gary 
Gensler, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, The Honorable Lisa Jackson, former Administrator of 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mr. Jonathan Silver, 
former Executive Director of the Loan Program Office at the 
U.S. Department of Energy, Mr. Andrew McLaughlin, former Deputy 
Chief Technology Officer at the Executive Office of the 
President, and the Honorable David Ferriero, Archivist of the 
United States. The hearing reviewed the government's policy on 
email use, particularly using unofficial email to conduct 
official work. Witnesses testified that the government does not 
adequately train staff on how to use unofficial emails or store 
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Technology Policy

    On April 16 2013, on a vote of 416-0, the Federal 
Information Security Amendments Act of 2013 (H.R. 1163) was 
approved by the House of Representatives. During the House 
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Markup on March 20, 
2013, the bill was also approved on a unanimous bipartisan 
voice vote. H.R. 1163 enhances the Federal Information Security 
Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 by improving the framework for 
securing federal computer information technology systems. It 
also establishes a mechanism for stronger oversight of 
information technology systems by focusing on automated and 
continuous monitoring of cybersecurity threats and regular 
``threat assessments.''
    Since its enactment, FISMA has become a compliance 
activity, where all too often `check-the-box' compliance has 
taken precedence over security enhancement. To ensure that 
FISMA focuses on `real-time' threats and incorporates 
technological developments occurring in the decade since its 
enactment, H.R. 1163 was introduced. To address the increasing 
security breaches highlighted by the aforementioned GAO study, 
H.R. 1163 requires automated and continuous monitoring, when 
possible, and regular threat assessments.
    Under H.R. 1163, each agency is directed to develop, 
document, and implement an agency-wide information security 
program that includes a system that involves automated and 
continuous monitoring. Each agency is also directed to conduct 
vulnerability assessments and penetration tests commensurate 
with the risk posed to agency information systems.
    Moreover, the legislation highlights the need for a 
stronger public/private relationship, by emphasizing the 
importance of commercially developed information security 
products to national security. The bill has received strong 
support from cybersecurity experts and industry.
    The Committee is continuing its oversight of cybersecurity 
policy from the previous Congress, where the National Security, 
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations Subcommittee held 
several hearings, including, ``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

    The Committee's federal regulation and regulatory process 
activities in the 113th Congress included passing regulatory 
reform legislation out of Committee, sending letters of inquiry 
and recommendation to agencies, and holding hearings on 
specific regulatory action. In July 2013, the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act was reported by the Committee. In the spring, the 
Committee inquired with the Office of Budget and Management 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) about the 
status of the Unified Agenda. Earlier in the year, the 
Committee sent a joint letter with the Judiciary Committee and 
the Senate Committee on Homeland and Government Affairs 
Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight to OIRA 
encouraging the implementation of the Government Accountability 
Office's recommendations in the ``Federal Rulemaking: Agencies 
Could Take Additional Steps to Respond to Public Comments'' 
report.
    On June 21, 2013, the Subcommittee on Government Operations 
held a field hearing in Bakersville North Carolina entitled 
``Building a Better Partnership: Exploring the Mine Safety and 
Health Administration's Regulation of Southern Appalachian 
Mining. The hearing examined the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration (MSHA) and its role in regulating metal/non-
metal mining in Southern Appalachia. Witnesses included Mr. 
Marvin Lichtenfels, MSHA Deputy Administrator, Mr. Sam Bratton, 
President of North Carolina Aggregates Association, Mr. Jeff 
Stoll, Safety and Health Manager at the Quartz Corporation, and 
Mr. Mack McNeely, Vice President at LBM Industries.
    On July 18, 2013, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing entitled 
``Regulatory Burdens: The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community 
Banking.'' Witnesses included the Honorable R. Bradley Miller, 
former Member of Congress and Senior Fellow at the Center for 
American Progress, Ms. Hester Peirce, Senior Research Fellow at 
the Mercatus Center, Ms. Tanya Marsh, Assistant Professor of 
Law at Wake Forest University School of Law, and Mr. Eddie 
Creamer, President and CEO of Prosperity Bank in St. Augustine 
Florida. The hearing examined how federal regulations impact 
community banks.
    Also on July 18, 2013, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements held a hearing entitled 
``Examining the Obama Administration's Social Cost of Carbon 
Estimates.'' The hearing examined the decision to recalculate 
the economic cost of carbon emissions for rulemaking. OIRA 
Administrator Howard Shelanski testified before the 
Subcommittee as to how an interagency working group revised 
previously issued guidance on the economic cost of carbon 
emission and how that guidance is used in agency rulemaking.
    On July 21, 2013, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements held a hearing entitled ``Oversight of 
IRS's Legal Basis for Expanding ObamaCare's Taxes and 
Subsidies.'' Witnesses included Mr. Jonathan Adler, Professor 
of Law at Case Western Reserve University, the Honorable Scott 
Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General, Mr. Charles Willey, M.D., 
CEO of Innovare Health Advocates Inc., and Ms. Emily McMahon, 
Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of 
Treasury. The hearing examined the legal basis for the joint 
IRS and Treasury rule that extended ObamaCare's subsidies to 
individuals in federal exchanges and the impact on individuals, 
employers, and states.
    On February 4, 2014, the Committee sent a letter to the 
Commissioner Koskinen regarding the IRS's proposed rulemaking 
entitled ``Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare Organizations 
on Candidate Related Political Activities.'' The letter 
requested documents related to the development of the proposed 
rule and urged the IRS to rescind the rulemaking which would 
drastically expand the definition of political activity and 
result in significant restrictions on political speech. On 
February 25, 2014 the Committee submitted the letter to the 
rulemaking docket. Hearing no response from the IRS, the 
Committee sent a follow up letter on February 26 urging a 
response and explaining concerns with the development of the 
proposed rule as revealed through transcribed interviews with 
former senior officials at the IRS.
    On February 27, 2014, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing entitled, 
``The Administration's Proposed Restrictions on Political 
Speech: Doubling Down on IRS Targeting.'' The hearing examined 
the anticipated impact of the Internal Revenue Service's 
proposed regulation, ``Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare 
Organizations on Candidate Related Political Activities,'' on 
tax-exempt organizations' constitutionally protected speech. 
Witnesses included Gabriel Rottman, Legislative Counsel and 
Policy Advisor of the American Civil Liberties Union, James R. 
Mason, Senior Counsel for the Home School Legal Defense 
Association, the Honorable Wayne Allard, Vice President of 
Government Relations for the American Motorcyclist Association, 
Jenny Beth Martin, President and Co-Founder of the Tea Party 
Patriots, and Allen Dickerson, Legal Director for the Center 
for Competitive Politics. Each witness testified to how the 
proposed rule would hinder their ability to maintain tax exempt 
status by engaging in nonpartisan political education or issue 
advocacy.
    On February 5, 2014, the Committee, along with the 
Committee on Ways and Means, published a joint staff report 
entitled ``Administration Conducted Inadequate Review of Key 
Issues Prior to Expanding Health Law's Taxes and Subsidies.'' 
The report focused on the findings of the Committees' oversight 
of the issue, specifically that the administration failed to 
conduct a thorough analysis of the issue prior to the 
promulgation of the final rule.
    On May 6, 2014, the Subcommittee on Government Operations 
held a field hearing in Plymouth Michigan that examined federal 
government regulations that continue to impede job creation and 
economic growth in Michigan, entitled ``Regulatory Impediments 
to Job Creation in Michigan.'' Witnesses included Chris Fisher, 
President and CEO of Associated Builders and Contractors of 
Michigan, Janet Kaboth, President and CEO of Whitacre Greer 
Company, Michael Lenahan, President of Resource Recovery 
Corporation of West Michigan, and Richard Kligman, President of 
Superb Custom Homes. They testified about numerous regulations 
that directly impact their businesses and the businesses they 
represent, including OSHA, EPA, and NLRB regulations.

Energy

    In February 2013, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements kicked off its energy hearings in the 
113th Congress with a hearing entitled, ``The Effects of Rising 
Energy Costs on American Families and Employers.'' This hearing 
set the agenda for energy oversight performed by the 
Subcommittee by looking at how much increasing energy costs 
affect American families and how the Administration's policies 
and regulations increase energy costs.
    In March 2013, the Subcommittee called the U.S. Department 
of Energy to testify at a hearing about the permitting of 
facilities to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), entitled, 
``The Department of Energy's Strategy for Exporting Liquefied 
Natural Gas.'' At this hearing, the Subcommittee heard 
testimony from both Deloitte and the Brookings Institute about 
the net positive benefits to the American economy of approving 
permits for LNG export to non-free trade agreement countries. 
Moreover, the Subcommittee asked Acting Assistant Secretary for 
Fossil Energy, Christopher Smith, about the necessity to 
expedite the LNG export permitting process in order for the 
U.S. economy to capitalize on the country's abundance of 
natural gas resources.
    On May 16, 2013 at 10:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on Energy 
Policy held a hearing entitled ``Opportunities Lost: 
Constraints on Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands and 
Waters.'' The hearing examined Department of the Interior 
policies governing oil and gas production on federal lands and 
waters. Testimony was received from the Acting Assistant 
Secretary for Land and Minerals Management and an analyst from 
the Government Accountability Office. Specific topics addressed 
at the hearing included a proposed rule governing hydraulic 
fracturing on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land 
Management, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's 
policies with respect to offshore oil and gas exploration.
    On June 5, 2013, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements held a hearing entitled, ``Up Against the 
Blend Wall: Examining EPA's Role in the Renewable Fuel 
Standard.'' The hearing examined the Renewable Fuel Standard 
(RFS) including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 
management of the program. The RFS determines the specific 
amount of renewable fuel, most commonly corn-derived ethanol, 
that must be contained within transportation fuel sold in the 
United States. However, the high amount of renewable fuel 
called for by the law is having profound negative consequences 
for consumers. The Subcommittee heard from a variety of 
affected parties, ranging from turkey farmer representatives to 
gasoline producers about the negative effects of the RFS. The 
Subcommittee also heard testimony from EPA about the waiver 
authority afforded it by law and urged the agency to use it to 
ameliorate the situation.
    On July 18, 2013, the Subcommittee held a hearing entitled, 
``Examining the Obama Administration's Social Cost of Carbon 
Estimates.'' The hearing examined the Obama Administration's 
decision to recalculate how it determines the economic cost of 
carbon emissions for rulemaking. Testimony was provided by 
Howard Shelanski, the Administrator of the Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House. The 
Subcommittee was concerned about the lack of transparency about 
this process and pressed Mr. Shelanski to conduct these 
analyses in a more open and transparent manner.
    On October 2, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on 
Energy Policy held a hearing entitled ``Oversight of the Wind 
Energy Production Tax Credit.'' The American Taxpayer Relief 
Act of 2013, also known as the ``fiscal cliff deal,'' included 
a 1-year extension of the Internal Revenue Code Sec. 45 tax 
credit for electricity produced from wind sources. The hearing 
considered the arguments for and against another extension of 
the credit. A revenue estimate from the Joint Committee on 
Taxation, prepared at the request of Subcommittee Chairman 
James Lankford, found that a 1-year extension would cost 
taxpayers $6.2 billion, while a 5-year extension would cost 
$18.5 billion. The hearing also examined how the Internal 
Revenue Service intends to enforce the ``beginning of 
construction'' requirement of the current law, and featured 
testimony from the IRS Associate Counsel for Passthroughs and 
Special Industries.
    In April 2014, the Subcommittee called the U.S. Department 
of Energy to testify at a hearing about the permitting of 
facilities to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), entitled, 
``Examining the Effects of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on 
U.S. Foreign Policy.'' At this hearing, the Subcommittee heard 
testimony from Christopher A. Smith, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Fossil Energy at the Department of Energy and 
Amos J. Hochstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 
Diplomacy at the Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department 
of State. The focus of the hearing was the role that American 
LNG exports can play in furthering U.S. foreign policy goals 
and strengthening national security and what the Administration 
is doing to take advantage of these opportunities.
    In February 2014, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements held a hearing titled, ``Examining the 
Endangered Species Act.'' During this hearing, testimony was 
delivered by Michael Bean, Counselor for Fish and Wildlife and 
Parks at the Department of the Interior and Samuel Rauch, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs at the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries 
Service within the Department of Commerce. The hearing 
acknowledged the Endangered Species Act's 40th anniversary and 
examined the Department of Interior and Department of 
Commerce's administration of the Act, including processes used 
to determine whether species are listed as endangered or 
threatened. Specifically, the hearing looked at the effect of 
the Act on energy production in the United States.

Environment

    The Committee held a hearing in October 2013, about fraud 
committed by an employee of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency. The hearing entitled, ``Secret Agent Man: Oversight of 
the EPA IG's Investigation of John Beale,'' brought to light 
many of the facts surrounding the fraudulent actions of John 
Beale, an EPA employee who claimed that he was a CIA agent 
while working at the EPA. The Committee found that Beale was 
never a CIA agent and that he instead used that as cover to go 
on expensive trips and take time off from work at the same time 
receiving a salary above the legal limit for federal employees. 
The Committee continues to investigate the actions of EPA and 
Mr. Beale in determining the extent to which fraud was 
committed with taxpayer money.
    The Committee continues to pursue an investigation into 
EPA's conduct regarding the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, 
Alaska. EPA has been considering the use of an unprecedented 
preemptive veto under the Clean Water Act of a mining permit 
that has yet to be applied for. The agency has also undertaken 
a study of the Bristol Bay watershed based on a hypothetical 
mine plan that does not actually exist as part of its review of 
this project. The Committee has requested email communications 
and transcribed interviews with present and former EPA 
officials in order to learn more and continues to investigate 
the matter.
    The Committee continues to pursue an investigation into the 
use of alias email accounts at EPA as well as the implications 
these accounts have for producing documents through the Freedom 
of Information Act and in response to Congressional inquiries. 
In April 2013, in conjunction with Ranking Member David Vitter 
of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 
Chairman Issa sent a letter to EPA requesting email 
communications from Administrator Gina McCarthy as well as 
former Administrator Lisa Jackson's alias email account that 
were produced in a heavily redacted form pursuant to a FOIA 
request. The Committee continues to investigate this matter.
    The Committee held a hearing on May 7, 2014 about issues 
regarding a dispute between the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the EPA Office of 
Homeland Security (OHS). The hearing entitled, ``Is EPA 
Leadership Obstructing Its Own Inspector General?,'' examined 
an alleged assault of an EPA OIG agent after questioning an 
employee within OHS. The Committee also heard testimony about 
the inability of the EPA OIG to gain exposure into 
investigations conducted by the EPA OHS, as required by the 
Inspector General Act. After the hearing the Committee 
continued to work with the EPA OIG to resolve the issues it had 
with the OHS and the Agency.
    On June 25, 2014, the Committee convened a hearing 
regarding management issues at the EPA, including numerous 
instances of employee misconduct as well as the ongoing dispute 
between the EPA OIG and OHS. The Committee heard testimony from 
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and was entitled ``Management 
Failures: Oversight of the EPA.'' At the hearing, the Committee 
pressed the Administrator to swiftly resolve the issues between 
the OIG and OHS and allow the OIG to perform its statutorily 
mandated investigatory duties. The Committee also questioned 
Administrator McCarthy regarding many instances of egregious 
employee misconduct and the steps the agency was taking to 
prevent these actions in the future. The Committee continues to 
perform oversight regarding the dispute between the EPA OIG and 
OHS.
    The Committee continues to pursue an investigation into 
EPA's conduct regarding the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, 
Alaska. In July 2014, EPA issued an official Proposed 
Determination that the Pebble Mine would adversely impact the 
Bristol Bay Watershed and is considering severely limiting the 
scope of the project before it has even applied for a permit. 
The Committee subpoenaed documents and communications relating 
to EPA's decision to pursue the pre-emptive veto of the Pebble 
Project.
    The Committee is also investigating the involvement of the 
Natural Resources Defense Council in drafting EPA's proposed 
regulations for limiting greenhouse gas emissions from existing 
power plants. According to press reports, the NRDC had a role 
in advocating for its position in the crafting of these rules. 
EPA released its proposed rule for regulating carbon emissions 
from existing power sources on June 2, 2014. The Committee 
requested documents and communications from both EPA and NRDC 
regarding the role that NRDC played in creating these 
regulations.

Health Care and Entitlements

    In March of 2013, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform in its relentless pledge to the American people of 
continuing to watch out for tax-payers dollars released a 
report entitled ``Billions of Federal Tax Dollars Misspent on 
New York's Medicaid Program.'' The report focused on New York 
because New York State's Medicaid program is the largest in the 
country. In fiscal year 2010, New York's $2,700 per resident 
Medicaid spending exceeded per capita Medicaid spending in the 
rest of the country by more than $1,500. Poor program oversight 
by both the State and federal Government has contributed to 
these problems. The report discussed past findings of the 
Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health 
and Human Services (HHS), investigative reporters, whistle-
blowers and this Committee of waste, fraud, and abuse within 
New York's Medicaid program. It also explicitly recognized the 
positive and significant reform efforts of New York Governor 
Andrew Cuomo, highlighted continuing concerns and offered 
several recommendations aimed at protecting future tax dollars.
    In April, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care 
and Entitlements held a hearing entitled, ``Examining the Lack 
of Transparency and Consumer-Driven Market Forces in U.S. 
Health Care.'' The hearing examined serious problems within the 
U.S. health care system, including adverse health care events 
experienced by patients resulting from poor care and 
overtreatment and the burden on families and taxpayers 
resulting from rising health care spending. The hearing also 
looked into the causes and consequences of medical mistakes and 
the lack of publicly available information about provider 
performance. The Subcommittee heard testimony from two 
witnesses, Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. John Goodman, both of whom 
have studied the problems that exist in the U.S. health care 
system.
    In May, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and 
Entitlements in a joint effort with the Subcommittee on 
Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs held a 
joint hearing entitled, ``Examining the Concerns About 
ObamaCare Outreach Campaign.'' The Subcommittees heard 
testimony from Mr. Gary Cohen, an official from the Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), regarding the funding, 
selection, training and oversight of Navigators and in-person 
assisters (Assisters), who are responsible for education and 
outreach efforts to individuals covered by the new health 
insurance exchanges set up by the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act. The hearing closely examined ObamaCare's 
outreach program in an effort to better understand how these 
multi-faceted and wide-reaching programs are being implemented. 
This hearing enabled the Subcommittees to seek further 
clarification on the issues and better understand HHS's vision 
for the Navigators and Assisters in the program.
    On July 17th, a joint hearing effort took place between the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's Subcommittee on 
Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements, and the Committee 
on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, 
Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies when a 
hearing entitled, ``Evaluating Privacy, Security, and Fraud 
Concerns with ObamaCare's Information Sharing Apparatus'' was 
held. The Subcommittees examined the development of the federal 
data hub established by ObamaCare, the Department of Health and 
Human Services' plans for protecting the personal data of 
individuals who purchase coverage through the new state health 
insurance exchanges and the new federally-facilitated health 
insurance exchanges. This hearing also focused on how the data 
that will be gathered through these sources will be used to 
verify applicant's eligibility for tax credits. The hearing 
also placed focus on how the data hub will transmit personally 
identifiable information, such as social security numbers, 
dates of birth, marital status, number of dependents, household 
income and citizenship status. It was important to understand 
how the department plans to implement and operate this system 
as it will hold very delicate information from citizens signing 
up for Obamacare, as well as for determining any credits that 
individuals receive.
    The same month on July 31st, the Subcommittee on Energy 
Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements held a hearing entitled, 
``Oversight of IRS's Legal Basis for Expanding ObamaCare's 
Taxes and Subsidies.'' There is an ongoing legal dispute as to 
whether ObamaCare made health insurance subsidies available in 
states that did not established their own health insurance 
exchanges. The IRS and Treasury department issued a rule that 
provided those subsidies to individuals in both states with 
their own health insurance exchanges as well as states that 
decided not to establish their own health insurance exchanges. 
The Subcommittee examined the legal basis for the joint IRS and 
Treasury rule that extended ObamaCare's subsidies to 
individuals in federal exchanges as well as the rule's impact 
on individuals, employers and states. The subcommittee invited 
and took testimony from stakeholders and experts on the 
legality of IRS and Treasury's rule, the process used to form 
the rule, and the effects of the rule on the general public. 
This investigation is still on-going.
    In September 28th, Majority staff released a preliminary 
report entitled ``Risks of Fraud and Misinformation with 
ObamaCare Outreach Campaign: How Navigator and Assister Program 
Mismanagement Endangers Consumers.'' ObamaCare requires states 
to establish ``Navigators'' to conduct outreach about the law, 
provide fair and impartial information to consumers, and 
facilitate enrollment in new health insurance exchanges and 
state Medicaid programs. However, ObamaCare explicitly 
prohibited states from using federal exchange establishment 
grants to fund Navigator organizations; instead ObamaCare 
required that Navigators receive funding from a state 
exchange's operational funds. When several states objected to 
financing Navigators with state revenue, the Administration 
created a twin program called In-Person Assisters (Assisters) 
in states with state-based exchanges. This year alone, the 
Administration will provide several hundred million dollars of 
taxpayer funds to Assister organizations. The committee has and 
will continue to further look into this matter to make sure 
that all statutes are followed and that tax-payer funds are not 
victims of waste, fraud or abuse.
    On October 9, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform held a hearing entitled, ``Examining the IRS's Role in 
Implementing and Enforcing ObamaCare.'' The Committee examined 
the operational challenges that the IRS faces in implementing 
ObamaCare, including the new taxes that IRS will implement as 
well as the determination, payment, and reconciliation of the 
advanced tax credits. Sarah Hall Ingram, of the IRS's 
Affordable Care Act Office and Former Commissioner for Tax 
Exempt and Government Entities was invited to testify at this 
hearing. Additionally, the committee touched upon on the IRS's 
role in enforcing ObamaCare's taxes and implementing its 
subsidies and its central role in the data-sharing network 
created by the Department of Health and Human Services to 
conduct eligibility determinations and calculations for 
advanced health insurance tax credits.
    On November 13th, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform held a hearing entitled, ``ObamaCare Implementation: The 
Rollout of HealthCare.gov.'' The Committee examined the 
Administration's development and rollout of Healthcare.gov, 
including whether the Administration followed industry best 
practices in the development of ObamaCare's information 
technology systems. The launch of Healthcare.gov which was to 
go live on October 1, 2013 in accordance to industry standards 
was anything but a success. The website given the user volume 
experienced could not handle the amount of traffic, leading to 
its service interruptions/glitches which led the Committee to 
contact and call for documentation from twelve different 
vendors involved in its construction and eight tech giants to 
see whether they had involvement on the IT project.
    The Committee received thousands of pages in document 
productions by these vendors and entities. The hearing examined 
the operational challenges at the root of the trouble website 
launch, and compared them to best practices in the industry. 
Invited to testify were Mr. Steven VanRoekel, CIO of the United 
States, Mr. Todd Park, CIO Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, Mr. Henry Chao, Deputy CIO for Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Mr. Frank Baitman, CIO of HHS, Mr. David 
Powner, Director of IT Management Issues with the GAO, Mr. 
Richard Spires, former CIO of Homeland Security and lastly Ms. 
Karen Evans, Partner at KE&T Partners, LLC. While the 
investigation is still on-going, given the testimony and 
evidence presented at the hearing and received productions, it 
is clear that there were problems with the implementation, 
development, and testing of HealthCare.gov. This investigation 
is still on-going.
    The Committee held four field hearings to examine the 
impact of Obamacare on individuals and employers across the 
nation. On November 22, the first hearing entitled ``ObamaCare 
Implementation: Sticker Shock of Increased Premiums for 
Healthcare Coverage'' took place in Gastonia, NC and examined 
the impacts of ObamaCare on the citizens of that State. The 
second hearing ``ObamaCare Implementations: High Costs, Few 
Choices for Rural America'' took place on November 25th in 
Gainesville, GA and this hearing focused on ObamaCare's impact 
on health insurance coverage and premiums in Georgia as well as 
its effects on the local economy.
    In December the committee traveled to the states of Arizona 
and Texas to further examine Obamacare's regulations and its 
effect on the U.S. general public. These two hearings entitled 
``Obamacare Implementation, The Broken Promise: If You Like 
Your Current Plan You Can Keep It'' and ``ObamaCare 
Implementation: Who Are The Navigators?'' further examined the 
ObamaCare implementation issues including the controversy of 
who the Navigators are, and what are the requirements necessary 
to become one. In preparation for questions/inquiries for these 
hearings the committee performed two transcribed interviews 
pertaining to the Navigators program, as well as a transcribed 
interview with Mr. Henry Chao, Deputy CIO for Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, and seven other additional 
interviews related to Healthcare.gov and its launch.
    In addition to the hearings, staff reports, and witnesses 
invited to testify in front of the Oversight and Government 
Reform committee and Subcommittees, in 2013 we have sent over 
17 letters addressed to Health and Human Services Secretary 
Kathleen Sebelius ranging in topic and depth in regards to 
HHS's role on the implementation, development and rollout of 
ObamaCare. The level of response has varied from the department 
and we will continue to address letters as needed in the future 
as we see fit to seek clarification to the committee's 
inquiries and on-going investigations.
    In 2014, the Committee continued its oversight of 
Obamacare. The Committee's oversight focused primarily on the 
troubled launch of the law's web portal, HealthCare.gov, 
including concerns over the security of the website as well as 
the reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment provisions 
of the law.
    HealthCare.gov launched on October 1, 2013, with numerous 
problems. The Committee learned that in the weeks prior to the 
launch of HealthCare.gov, the Chief Information Security 
Officer (CISO) at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services 
(CMS) communicated to several of her superiors, including the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) CISO, her serious 
concerns about the adequacy of the security testing of 
HealthCare.gov as well as her recommendation to deny the 
authority to operate for the website, a key certification to 
allow the site to launch.
    On January 16th, the Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``HHS' Own Security Concerns about HealthCare.gov.'' The 
Committee questioned top HHS officials about the adequacy of 
the security testing of HealthCare.gov, including concerns that 
HHS and CMS information security experts had prior to the 
site's launch on October 1, 2013. The Committee heard testimony 
from three witnesses: Mr. Kevin Charest, Chief Information 
Security Officer for HHS; Ms. Teresa Fryer, Chief Information 
Security Officer for CMS; and Mr. Frank Baitman, Chief 
Information Officer for HHS.
    The Committee continued its oversight of the security of 
Healthcare.gov with a hearing on January 28th, entitled, ``A 
Roadmap for Hackers?--Documents Detailing HealthCare.gov 
Security Vulnerabilities.'' The Committee examined concerns 
over the adequacy of security testing on HealthCare.gov. The 
hearing was closed to the public due to concerns HHS raised 
regarding the sensitive nature of Security Control Assessments 
(SCAs) conducted by contractors assessing the security of the 
system. Mr. Milton Shomo, the Principal Information Systems 
Engineer for The MITRE Corporation, testified before the 
Committee, along with Mr. Kevin Charest, Chief Information 
Security Officer at HHS. The MITRE Corporation conducted 
independent security assessments of Healthcare.gov, including 
one that occurred weeks before it launched. MITRE's SCA report 
identified multiple concerns over the adequacy of CMS's 
security testing of the federal marketplace. However, 
notwithstanding the report's negative results, HHS officials 
decided to launch Healthcare.gov.
    On February 5th, the Committee held a hearing titled, 
``ObamaCare: Why the Need for an Insurance Company Bailout?'' 
ObamaCare included several provisions that provide transfer 
payments to insurance companies who face higher than expected 
costs for providing care, collectively referred to as the 3Rs 
(Reinsurance, Risk Adjustment, and Risk Corridors). The hearing 
focused on the aspects of ObamaCare that have increased health 
insurance premiums for some, particularly the young and 
healthy, adverse selection concerns, and 3R provisions included 
in the law.
    On June 18, 2014, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job 
Creation, and Regulatory Affairs held a followup hearing 
entitled ``Poised to Profit: How ObamaCare Helps Insurance 
Companies Even If It Fails Patients.'' On July 28, 2014, the 
Committee released a staff report entitled ``ObamaCare's 
Taxpayer Bailout of Health Insurers and the White House's 
Involvement to Increase Bailout Size,'' which summarized the 
Committee's findings on the 3R program.
    Following the Administration's announcement that 
Healthcare.gov had suffered a malicious attack by hackers, on 
September 18th, the Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``Examining ObamaCare's Failures in Security, Accountability 
and Transparency.'' This hearing coincided with the release of 
a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, 
which stated that while CMS has taken steps to protect the 
security and privacy of data maintained by the systems that 
support Healthcare.gov, weaknesses and unnecessary risks remain 
that could threaten the safety of personally identifiable 
information. The hearing examined not only concerns about the 
security of Healthcare.gov, but also the Administration's 
failure to be transparent about the problems with the law's 
implementation including the lack of accountability for errors 
made during implementation. The Committee heard testimony from 
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, who was significantly 
involved in implementing ObamaCare.
    Also, on September 18th, the Committee released a report in 
coordination with the hearing, entitled ``Behind the Curtain of 
the Healthcare.gov Rollout.'' The report detailed multiple 
troubling instances where ineffective government agencies, such 
as CMS and HHS, concealed information about their problems 
implementing ObamaCare not only from their own colleagues, but 
also from the news media, state partners, Congress, and the 
American people.
    In addition to hearings and staff reports, in 2014 the 
Committee has sent eight letters to the Department of Health 
and Human Services requesting documents and briefings on HHS's 
role in implementing various provisions of ObamaCare.

                         MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

    In addition to the Committee's oversight of ObamaCare, the 
Committee has focused on protecting taxpayer dollars from waste 
and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
    On May 20th, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care 
and Entitlements held a hearing titled, ``Medicare 
Mismanagement: Oversight of the Federal Government Effort to 
Recapture Misspent Funds.'' Subcommittee members heard 
testimony from the Director of the Center for Program Integrity 
within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well 
as representatives from the U.S. Government Accountability 
Office and the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services about how CMS, its 
contractors and HHS can improve Medicare program oversight and 
actively prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. Members discussed 
possible actions to reduce improper payments, improve fraud 
prevention efforts and contractor oversight and make the 
Medicare appeals process more efficient, effective and fair.
    On July 19th, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements held a follow up hearing, entitled, 
``Medicare Mismanagement Part II: Exploring Medicare Appeals 
Reform.'' This hearing focused specifically on the serious 
challenges facing the Medicare appeals process, including the 
backlog of over 750,000 claims waiting to be heard by 
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), which is the third level of 
the Medicare appeals process. Due to this backlog, HHS reported 
that the appeals process could take up to 28 months despite a 
statutory requirement that appeals by ALJs be completed within 
90 days. Subcommittee members heard testimony from Judge Nancy 
Griswold, the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Medicare 
Hearings and Appeals, about the challenges facing the Medicare 
appeals process and what steps the agency had taken to address 
these challenges.
    On July 29th, the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health 
Care and Entitlements held a hearing titled, ``Examining the 
Federal Government's Failure to Curb Wasteful State Medicaid 
Financing Schemes.'' Because of its enormous size and 
complexity, Medicaid (which cost American taxpayers $432 
billion in 2012) is susceptible to substantial amounts of 
waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse. The Government 
Accountability Office (GAO) has designated Medicaid as a high-
risk program and has expressed concerns over the adequacy of 
Medicaid program oversight. Additionally, reports show that 
states are increasingly using nontransparent and inappropriate 
financing schemes to shift Medicaid costs to the federal 
government. Subcommittee members heard testimony from the GAO 
and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of 
Inspector General (HHS OIG) about recent reports on 
inappropriate state Medicaid financing techniques and wasteful 
Medicaid spending in work requested by the Committee. Cindy 
Mann, a Deputy Director at the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services (CMS), testified about the Administration's 
response to the GAO and OIG findings and recommendations.

                 FEDERAL DISABILITY PROGRAMS (SSDI/SSI)

    In March, 2013, the Committee began a major oversight 
effort to examine the Social Security Administration's 
management of the federal disability programs including the 
pressure the agency applied on administrative law judges (ALJs) 
to decide an increasing number of cases and the failure to 
guarantee program integrity by completing continuing disability 
reviews (CDRs) in a timely manner to ensure that beneficiaries 
are still eligible for the programs.
    To date, the Committee has written four letters to SSA 
requesting documents and information and engaged in a series of 
briefings with SSA on various issues relating to the oversight 
including the agency's decision to establish production goals 
for ALJs. SSA's own data shows that from 2005-2013, over 
930,000 individuals were added to the program by ALJs who 
approved over 80 percent of their cases. Many of these 
individuals have never been reviewed to determine whether or 
not they were added to the program appropriately.
    In addition, the Committee wrote the Inspector General 
(OIG) about unimplemented recommendations for SSA and engaged 
in a series of briefings regarding OIG's investigation of a 
criminal conspiracy to defraud the federal disability programs 
in Puerto Rico.
    On June 27th, the Energy Policy, Health Care, and 
Entitlements subcommittee held a hearing entitled ``Oversight 
of Rising Social Security Disability Claims and the Role of 
Administrative Law Judges'' where four current or former SSA 
ALJs testified about fundamental problems with the disability 
adjudication process. Former SSA ALJ J.E. Sullivan testified 
that ``the SSA management's high volume and speedy production 
goal agenda results in management pressuring judges to stop all 
meaningful adjudication work'' and results ``in production of a 
large number of disability decisions that have not been 
properly reviewed, analyzed, or decided.'' The SSA official 
responsible for managing the disability adjudication and review 
process also testified about current SSA initiatives to improve 
the adjudication process.
    The Committee also was contacted by over a dozen current or 
former SSA ALJs who echoed their concerns about SSA's emphasis 
of quantity over quality as well as other problems including 
attorney misconduct and outdated SSA policies that impacted the 
ability of ALJs to make fair and timely decisions.
    The Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements 
subcommittee held a follow up hearing on November 19th entitled 
``Continuing Oversight of the Social Security Administration's 
Mismanagement of Federal Disability Program.'' Three SSA 
officials and the Inspector General testified about various 
program integrity initiatives and timetables for reform.
    The committee has also conducted three transcribed 
interviews of SSA officials to assist with the oversight. The 
three witnesses testified that while SSA introduced a 500-700 
production goal for ALJs in 2007, some ALJs decided thousands 
of cases per year until the agency started limiting case 
assignments in 2011. The witnesses also testified that it is 
possible that ALJs who decide more than 700 cases per year may 
be sacrificing quality yet the agency currently still allows 
ALJs to be assigned 860 cases per year. The Committee also 
learned that there are inconsistencies among ALJs regarding 
methods for case review and application of rules and 
regulations.
    The Committee also wrote to the U.S. Government 
Accountability Office (GAO) requesting that it review the role 
of private consultants and organizations in increasing the 
number of individuals enrolled in federal disability programs. 
GAO accepted this project and will complete the review in 2014.
    The Administrative Conference of the United States also 
briefed the Committee, Chairman Lankford, and Ranking Member 
Speier on its recommendations for how SSA can improve the 
programs.
    In 2014, the Committee continued its oversight of the 
Social Security Administration's management of the federal 
disability programs including the pressure the agency applied 
on administrative law judges (ALJs) to decide an increasing 
number of cases, and the failure to guarantee program integrity 
by completing continuing disability reviews (CDRs) in a timely 
manner to ensure that beneficiaries are still eligible for the 
programs.
    The Committee sent nine letters to SSA requesting documents 
and information and engaged in a series of briefings with SSA, 
SSA OIG, GAO, and other stakeholders on various issues relating 
to the oversight including the agency's decision to establish 
production goals for ALJs in order to pay down the backlog of 
claims. SSA's own data shows that from 2005-2013, over 930,000 
individuals were added to disability programs by ALJs who 
approved over 80 percent of their cases. Many of these 
individuals have never been reviewed to determine whether or 
not they were added to the program appropriately since the 
agency has a 1.3 million backlog of continuing disability 
reviews.
    In January, Chairman Issa and Subcommittee Chairman 
Lankford requested that the SSA OIG identify and review a 
sample of red-flag ALJs to assess whether the cases were 
processed in a manner consistent with SSA's policies and 
procedures. This review was completed and the IG's findings 
were set forth in a report released on November 14, 2014.
    The Committee also continued to engage regularly with the 
SSA OIG and SSA officials regarding the ongoing investigation 
into improper practices and inappropriate collusive efforts 
involving an SSA Administrative Law Judge and a claimant 
representative in Huntington, West Virginia as well as other 
allegations of criminal conspiracies to defraud the federal 
disability programs.
    On April 8th, Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements 
Subcommittee Chairman Lankford and Ranking Member Speier wrote 
a joint letter to SSA, with eleven recommendations urging the 
agency to overcome bureaucratic inertia and to initiate the 
necessary administrative actions to significantly improve the 
integrity of the disability programs on its recommendations for 
how SSA can improve the programs. The Lankford-Speier 
recommendations stemmed from briefings from the Administrative 
Conference of the United States, as well as academic 
literature, oversight hearings, and empirical analysis.
    On April 9th, the Energy Policy, Health Care, and 
Entitlements subcommittee held a hearing entitled ``Examining 
Ways the Social Security Administration Can Improve the 
Disability Review Process.'' Witnesses from the National 
Association of Disability Examiners as well as GAO and OIG, 
testified about how a backlog of over 1.3 million reviews 
resulted in many individuals who are able to work and who do 
not meet program eligibility criteria continuing to receive 
benefits. Additionally, the agency's criteria for conducting 
the reviews is flawed as it does not allow beneficiaries who 
were wrongfully awarded benefits to be removed from the program 
following a CDR since the examiner must find medical 
improvement to cease benefits.
    In the spring of 2014, the committee conducted two 
additional transcribed interviews of SSA officials--the current 
and former chief ALJs--to assist with the oversight. The 
witnesses provided additional insight about the development and 
application of the arbitrary production goals for ALJs and the 
agency's internal process for reviewing a limited number of 
ALJs since 2011 to determine their level of policy compliance.
    Following these interviews, as well as a thorough review of 
documents provided to the Committee by SSA, on June 10th, the 
Committee published a staff report entitled ``Systemic Waste 
and Abuse at the Social Security Administration: How Rubber-
Stamping Disability Judges Cost Hundreds of Billions of 
Taxpayer Dollars.'' Among the findings: between 2005 and 2013, 
over 1.3 million people were placed on the program by ALJs with 
an annual allowance rate in excess of 75 percent and over 
650,000 people were placed on the program by an ALJ with an 
annual allowance rate in excess of 85 percent. Overall, there 
were 191 ALJs who had a total allowance rate in excess of 85 
percent during this time period. These 191 ALJs awarded more 
than $150 billion in lifetime benefits between 2005 and 2013. 
Additionally, the agency failed to assess the quality of the 
decisions of ALJs with high disposition totals in spite of 
widespread recognition with the agency that ALJs cannot 
properly evaluate the evidence if they are deciding too many 
cases.
    On June 10th and June 11th, the Committee held two hearings 
entitled, ``Social Security Administration Oversight: Examining 
the Integrity of the Disability Determination Appeals Process'' 
and ``Social Security Administration Oversight: Examining the 
Integrity of the Disability Determination Appeals Process, Part 
II.'' During the first hearing, the Committee heard testimony 
from four current ALJs with allowance rates in excess of 75 or 
80 percent with more than 700 annual dispositions. These ALJs 
routinely disposed of a large number of cases, many without 
holding a hearing, and approved virtually every claimant who 
came before them for benefits. Internal reviews showed 
continued policy non-compliance yet the ALJs continued to 
decide full caseloads and were often praised by their 
supervisors and other agency officials because they met or 
exceeded agency production goals and therefore helped reduce 
the hearings backlog. At the second hearing, there was 
discussion of the substantial problem created when ALJs 
essentially approve every claimant before them, regardless of 
whether they are disabled or unable to work, and that the 
agency lacks commitment to fundamental program reform.
    In July, the Committee wrote a letter to the Acting 
Commissioner expressing concerns about the agency's expenditure 
of nearly $300 million on the Disability Case Processing 
System, a project that to date does not work. The agency 
contracted McKinsey & Company, Inc. for analysis of how to 
reset the project. The Committee requested documents and 
information about the failure of this project and whether or 
not officials within the agency attempted to hide the wasteful 
spending from Congress.

District of Columbia

    During the 113th Congress, legislation and oversight 
relating to the District of Columbia is being handled by the 
full Committee, rather than by a subcommittee.
    The Committee continues to monitor and oversee the 
implementation of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which 
was reauthorized in 2011. The program has seen modest growth 
since that time and the Committee continues to work with the 
city and the Department of Education to strengthen the program 
and boost enrollment.
    Following up on the D.C. Subcommittee's 2012 work on the 
law that governs the city's building heights, the Chairman 
asked the National Capital Planning Commission and the city to 
jointly study how modifying the city's height restrictions 
might impact both the federal and local constituencies inside 
the District. The Committee is reviewing both NCPC and the 
city's findings on building heights. The Committee subsequently 
shepherded legislation (H.R. 4192) through Congress, which was 
signed by the President on May 16, 2014 (P.L. 113-103)
    The Committee also is committed to granting D.C. autonomy 
over its locally-generated budget. The federal government 
shutdown in October 2013 illustrated how important it is for 
the city to have authority to spend its own dollars outside of 
the federal appropriations process. Unfortunately, a bipartisan 
compromise could not be reached in order to grant the city this 
flexibility. However, since that shutdown, Congress has allowed 
D.C. to spend locally raised dollars in the event of another 
shutdown. This authority, however, is not permanent.

The Census

    On September 11, 2013, the Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census held a hearing 
entitled: ``Ensuring an Accurate and Affordable 2020 Census.'' 
The hearing examined the status of a number of cost saving 
reforms the Census Bureau is considering implementing for the 
2020 decennial census. These potential reforms include offering 
an internet census response option, the use of electronic 
devices for enumerators, improved IT infrastructure, and an 
expanded use of administrative records. Discussion at the 
hearing focused, in particular, on shifting to a more flexible 
``bring your own device'' model for enumerators and the 
potential disadvantages of building an internal proprietary IT 
infrastructure. Witnesses at the hearing included Census Bureau 
Director John Thompson, as well as two representatives from the 
Government Accountability Office.
    On September 18, 2014, the Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census held a hearing 
entitled: ``U.S. Census Bureau: Addressing Data Collection 
Vulnerabilities.'' The hearing discussed the findings of the 
Committee's investigation into allegations of directed data 
falsification at the Census Bureau. While the Committee did not 
identify conclusive evidence of directed falsification, the 
Committee did identify a number of significant vulnerabilities 
in current data collection procedures. Specifically, current 
quality control methods create a conflict of interest as data 
reviewers have an incentive structure that discourages the 
identification of falsification. Further, many of the processes 
relied on in quality control are outdated, including the use of 
carbon paper forms to track falsification cases, as opposed to 
a digital system. At the hearing, the Census Director agreed 
with many of the report's findings and that the agency had 
begun to adopt many of the recommendations included in the 
Committee's report, as well as a similar report issued by the 
Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. Witnesses 
at the hearing included Census Bureau Director John Thompson 
and the Department of Commerce Inspector General Todd Zinser.

National Archives and Federal Records

    On March 20, 2013, the Committee considered two pieces of 
legislation designed to help modernize and improve the 
transparency of presidential and federal records. H.R. 1233, 
the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2013, 
was introduced by Ranking Member Cummings and approved by the 
Committee on a voice vote. H.R. 1234, the Electronic Message 
Preservation Act, was introduced by Ranking Member Cummings and 
also was approved by the Committee on a voice vote. Both bills 
were reported from the Committee as H.R. 3071 during the 112th 
Congress. Additionally, this Congress identical text was added 
to both pieces of legislation in order to create a framework 
for the use of personal electronic messaging accounts to 
conduct official business. On July 24, 2014, the Committee 
considered H.R. 5170, the Federal Records Accountability Act, 
introduced my Representative Mark Meadows. H.R. 5170 was 
designed to update the Federal Records Act to ensure the 
capture of digital records and putting in place clear, first of 
their kind, measures to hold federal employees accountable if 
they deliberately withhold, destroy, or alter federal records. 
During consideration, a number of bipartisan amendments were 
adopted further strengthening the legislation and it was 
ultimately favorably reported by voice vote. Subsequently, on 
September 16, 2014 H.R. 5170 was passed by voice vote of the 
full House of Representatives and has been referred to Senate 
for further consideration.
    Additionally, on January 14, 2014, the House of 
Representatives also approved H.R. 1233, the Presidential and 
Federal Records Act Amendments by voice vote. On September 10, 
2014, the Senate approved a version of H.R. 1233 that included 
a number technical amendments and the legislation was returned 
to the House. On November 12, 2014 the amended version of H.R. 
1233 was approved by the House of Representatives and on 
November 26, 2014, the President signed the bill into law.

Government Management and the Federal Workforce

    The Committee held five hearings to examine key issues 
impacting government management and the federal civilian 
workforce.
    On April 11, 2013, the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service, and the Census held a hearing entitled, 
``The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Is it a Good 
Value for Federal Employees?''. The hearing, which reviewed the 
Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) administration of the 
Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, followed the 
Committee's oversight and legislative work during the 112th 
Congress on federal employee compensation. Committee members 
examined the Administration's proposed legislative changes 
designed to improve the program, including policies to allow 
additional health plan types, establish a third enrollment 
category, and tier premiums to participation in wellness 
initiatives. Chairman Issa introduced legislation, H.R. 3319, 
to allow non-federal workers access to the FEHB Program.
    During the May 9, 2013, hearing entitled, ``Is OPM 
Processing Federal Worker Pension Claims on Time?'' the 
Subcommittee challenged OPM to identify and implement effective 
solutions to improve the retirement claims process and better 
manage costs so that federal employees may receive their earned 
benefits in a timely manner. The Subcommittee assessed OPM's 
efforts to reduce the backlog for processing claims, leverage 
information technology to modernize the process, and decrease 
improper payments of retirement benefits. The hearing followed 
the Subcommittee's November 15, 2011 hearing which examined the 
extent to which OPM is meeting its core mission. OPM failed to 
meet its July 2013 goal to eliminate the backlog of retirement 
claims and process 90 percent of retirement claims received 
within 30 days.
    On June 5, 2013, the Subcommittee held a hearing entitled, 
``OPM's Revolving Fund: A Cycle of Government Waste.'' The 
hearing examined OPM's revolving fund programs, including the 
quality of services provided and internal controls. Committee 
members reviewed the Administration's legislative proposal to 
provide OPM Inspector General resources to more adequately 
audit and investigative revolving fund activity. The hearing 
led to the introduction of H.R. 2860, the OPM IG Act, that will 
enhance the OPM Inspector General's oversight of the more than 
$2 billion in revolving fund activity.
    On June 18, 2013, the Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``Reinventing Government.'' The hearing focused on improving 
government efficiency and performance as a means to control 
government spending. Committee members debated establishing a 
Government Transformation Committee as way to consolidate and 
reorganize government to more effectively deliver core 
government services. Legislation establishing a government 
transformation commission, H.R. 2675, was introduced by 
Representative Bustos on July 11, 2013, and referred to the 
Committee.
    During the July 10, 2013 Subcommittee hearing entitled, 
``The Combined Federal Campaign: Making Every Dollar Count,'' 
the Subcommittee sought to better understand the impact of 
OPM's proposed regulatory changes to the Combined Federal 
Campaign (CFC), with an eye toward reaching consensus on 
sensible changes to better support federal workers who choose 
to donate. The Subcommittee continues to monitor OPM's efforts 
to work with participating charities and donors to strengthen 
the integrity, streamline operations, and increase the 
effectiveness of the CFC.
    In 2014, the Committee held three hearings to examine key 
issues impacting government management and the federal civilian 
workforce.
    At the Committee's request, GAO examined OPM's management 
of the General Schedule. GAO found that OPM's implementation of 
the system falls short of achieving some of the key attributes 
needed in a modern job classification system, including 
transparency, internal equity, simplicity, flexibility, and 
adaptability. On July 15, 2014, the Subcommittee [on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census held a hearing 
entitled, ``Is the Federal Government's General Schedule (GS) a 
Viable Personnel System for the Future?'' to examine the 
management of the federal workforce, including the 
classification, evaluation, and compensation of employees hired 
the GS classification system.
    The Subcommittee also held a hearing on July 11, 2014, 
entitled, ``Oversight of the Federal Workforce: The Viability 
of the Senior Executive Service.'' The Subcommittee examined 
the Senior Executive Service (SES), including the extent to 
which the SES is improving the executive management of the 
federal government and SES workers are held accountable for 
individual and organizational performance. The hearing examined 
the need for reform to better ensure the federal government 
hires, compensates and manages the executive workforce needed 
to meet its taxpayer-funded mission.
    On September 14, 2014, the Subcommittee held a hearing 
entitled, ``Examining the Administration's Treatment of 
Whistleblowers,'' which examined how whistleblower protection 
laws are often ignored or manipulated. Committee members agreed 
that Congress must continue to address actions taken by both 
the executive and judicial branches that undermine current 
whistleblower protection laws.
    Following the tragedy at the Navy Yard, Committee started 
an investigation into the federal security clearance process, 
which led to a full Committee hearing on February 7, 2014. The 
hearing examined proposed legislation aimed at addressing 
shortcomings found during the investigation. Invited witnesses 
include: The Honorable Katherine Archuleta, Director, U.S. 
Office of Personnel and Management; The Honorable Patrick 
McFarland, Inspector General, U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management; Mr. Stephen Lewis, Director for Personnel, 
Industrial and Physical Security Policy, Department of Defense; 
Mr. Sterling Phillips, CEO, U.S. Investigative Services, Inc.; 
Mr. Michael Rhodes, Executive Vice President, Mission Systems 
and Services Business Group, CACI International Inc.; Mr. Jeff 
Schlanger, President and CEO, KeyPoint Government Solutions. 
The Committee remains interested in enacting legislative 
improvements to the clearance process.

The United States Postal Service

    The Committee and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service, and the Census conducted significant 
oversight of the United States Postal Service and its 
deteriorating financial condition. In its work, the Committee 
placed a particular focus on the impacts of the Postal 
Service's deterioration in the mailing industry, as well as on 
the discussion of potential legislative reforms.
    On April 10, 2013 the Federal Workforce Subcommittee held a 
hearing entitled, ``Ahead of Postal Reform: Hearing from USPS 
Business Partners.'' The hearing presented committee members 
with testimony from broad segments of the mailing community, 
including advertising mailers, a magazine publisher, a 
newspaper publisher, and a mail-order pharmacy, all of whom 
shared their thoughts on the future of the Postal Service and 
the impacts that proposed reforms could have on their business. 
On April 17, 2013, the Committee expanded on the work on the 
Subcommittee's hearing with a second hearing entitled, 
``Options to Bring the Postal Service Back from Insolvency.'' 
At this hearing, members heard testimony from Mickey Barnett, 
the Chairman of the Postal Service's Board of Governors; 
Patrick Donahoe, the Postmaster General; Gene Dodaro, the 
Comptroller General of the United States; and Frederick 
Rolando, the President of the National Association of Letter 
Carriers. At this hearing, specific reform proposals were 
discussed at length and the Postal Service's financial 
condition was characterized in its own words.
    By the time of these two hearings, the Postal Service was 
already in default to the federal government for $11.1 billion 
to prefund its already accrued retiree health care liability 
and the Postal Service had lost a record $15.6 billion in 
fiscal year 2012. While partial year returns showed slightly 
better than expected finances for fiscal year 2013, due in part 
to revenue generated by the 2012 presidential election, the 
Postal Service was still operating at a loss and was projected 
to default on a further $5.6 billion payment for retiree health 
care liability on September 30, 2013, a default that did 
ultimately occur.
    Given the Postal Service's tenuous position, on July 19, 
2013, Chairman Issa, along with Federal Workforce Subcommittee 
Chairman Blake Farenthold and his predecessor as Subcommittee 
Chairman, Dennis Ross, introduced H.R. 2748, the Postal Reform 
Act of 2013. H.R. 2748 was modeled after H.R. 2309 from the 
112th Congress, which had been ordered reported by the 
Oversight Committee on October 13, 2011. However, in addition 
to many of the provision from H.R. 2309, H.R. 2748 also 
included a number of provisions from H.R. 2690, the Innovate to 
Deliver Act of 2013, introduced by Ranking Member Elijah 
Cummings, including a provision to create a Chief Innovation 
Officer within the Postal Service. On July 24, 2013, the 
Committee held a markup to consider H.R. 2748. A total of 5 
amendments were adopted and the legislation was subsequently 
ordered to be reported to the House of Representatives by a 
vote of 22-17.
    In 2014 the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service, and the Census held four hearings on the Postal 
Service. On March 4, 2014, the first of Subcommittee hearings 
examined the issue of Alaska Bypass mail delivery. At the 
hearing Federal Workforce Subcommittee members were able to 
hear testimony from a number of individuals, including from a 
representative with the Postal Service Office of Inspector 
General who highlighted potential abuses of the program. The 
second Subcommittee hearing, on March 13, 2014 examined USPS's 
unfunded liabilities. Subcommittee members heard from the GAO, 
the Postal Service, as well as the Department of Defense, a 
branch of government that is also required to prefund retiree 
health care costs in a similar manner to the Postal Service. 
The third hearing, on May 22, 2014, served as a forum to 
discuss potential new postal products. At the hearing, 
witnesses discussed innovative medicine packaging, new postage 
software, digital mail solutions, and other potential revenue 
streams for the Postal Service. The fourth Subcommittee hearing 
occurred on November 19, 2014 to examine the Postal Service's 
``mail cover'' program. At the hearing, witnesses and members 
discussed whether proper privacy protections were in place for 
the program, as well as information regarding a large data 
breach of employee information that was announced by the Postal 
Service earlier in November 2014.
    In addition to subcommittee hearings, the full Oversight 
Committee held a hearing on April 8, 2014 to discuss the postal 
reform proposal included in President Obama's fiscal year 2015 
budget. At the hearing, members heard testimony from Deputy 
Director Brian Deese of the Office of Management and Budget 
outlining President Obama's support for a number of major 
postal reforms including authorizing the Postal Service to move 
to a 5-day per week delivery schedule.
    During 2014, the Oversight Committee considered two bills 
related to the Alaska bypass mail program, H.R. 4011 and H.R. 
4174, both introduced by Chairman Issa. H.R. 4011, the Alaska 
Bypass Fair Competition Act, made a technical change to current 
law to end a permanent preference for certain air carriers that 
were engaged in bypass mail delivery on January 1, 2001. H.R. 
4011 was favorably reported by the Committee on February 11, 
2014 by voice vote. The second bill, H.R. 4174, was introduced 
on February 6, 2014, shortly after the Federal Workforce 
Subcommittee's hearing on the Alaska bypass program. Using 
input from the hearing, H.R. 4174 made more substantial reforms 
to the Alaska bypass program with the goal of improving the 
program's cost-efficiency. H.R. 4174 was favorably reported by 
the Committee on March 12, 2014 by voice vote.
    Finally, on May 19, 2014, Chairman Issa and Subcommittee 
Chairman Farenthold introduced H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery 
for America Act. H.R. 4670 is a modified stand-alone version of 
a provision included in H.R. 2748, the Committee's 
comprehensive postal reform legislation approved in 2013. H.R 
4670 would require the Postal Service to convert 15 million 
addresses over the next ten years to more cost-effective forms 
of delivery. Exceptions were made in the legislation for 
addresses where conversion would pose a physical hardship and 
the delivery changes would alter less than one percent of 
nationwide addresses during each year of the 10 year period. 
The Secure Delivery for America Act was approved by the 
Committee on May 21, 2014 by a vote of 18-13.

National Security and Foreign Operations

    In February 2013, the Subcommittee on National Security 
continued a series of hearing on issues regarding taxpayer 
expenditures in Afghanistan. The Subcommittee heard testimony 
from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction, who conducted an audit of the Afghanistan 
National Army's logistics capability for petroleum, oil, and 
lubricants provided via U.S. resources. In April, the 
Subcommittee also held a hearing titled, ``Contracting to Feed 
U.S. Troops in Afghanistan: How did the Defense Department end 
up in a Multi-Billion Dollar Billing Dispute?'' to examine 
concerns with a major Defense Department subsistence contract 
in Afghanistan. Officials from the Defense Logistics Agency, 
the Defense Department's Inspector General, and an executive 
from the contracting company testified before the Subcommittee.
    In April 2013, the Subcommittee conducted a joint hearing 
with the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and 
Regulatory Affairs to examine the federal government's 
procurement processes and storage logistics regarding 
ammunition. Members heard testimony from the Homeland Security 
Department's Chief Procurement Officer, the Inspector General 
of the Social Security Administration, as well as the President 
of the National Law Enforcement Officers Association. In 
August, the Subcommittee held its second hearing examining 
federal government weapons management. The Subcommittee focused 
on an inspector general report highlighting a lack of 
accountabiliby over weapons at the National Park Service.
    In May 2013, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform held a hearing entitled, ``Benghazi: Exposing Failure 
and Recognizing Courage.'' The Committee received testimony 
from three State Department officials with knowledge of the 
facts and circumstances of the September 11, 2012, terrorist 
attack in Benghazi, Libya. Gregory Hicks, Deputy Chief of 
Mission at Embassy Tripoli on the night of the terrorist 
attacks, and Mark Thompson, Deputy Coordinator for Operations 
in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism offered 
new testimony that provided additional insight into events in 
Libya and at the State Department on the night of the September 
11, 2012 terrorist attacks. Eric Nordstrom, the former Regional 
Security Officer at Embassy Tripoli, provided context about 
security procedures and resourcing at U.S. diplomatic 
facilities in Libya.
    In September 2013, the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform held a hearing entitled, ``Reviews of the 
Benghazi Attack and Unanswered Questions.'' The Committee 
received testimony from two panels of witnesses. On the first 
panel, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen, 
USN (Ret.), Chair and Vice-Chair respectively of the State 
Department's Accountability Review Board, convened to review 
the facts and circumstances of the September 11, 2012 terrorist 
attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. 
Joining them were Mark Sullivan, a former Director of the 
Secret Service and Todd Keil, a former Assistant Secretary of 
Homeland Security, who served on an Independent Panel on Best 
Practices, convened by the State Department to review the 
diplomatic security function of the Department. On the second 
panel, the Committee heard from Patricia Smith and Charles 
Woods, parents of two of the victims of the Benghazi attack--
Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods.

Homeland Security

    The Subcommittee on National Security held a hearing in 
April on the impact of sequestration on the Transportation 
Security Administration. The Subcommittee received testimony 
from Mr. John Halinski, the Deputy Administrator of TSA. Also 
in April, the Subcommittee on National Security, along with the 
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory 
Affairs, jointly held a hearing entitled, ``Oversight of the 
Federal Government's Procurement of Ammunition'' to examine the 
procurement and use of ammunition by Federal Government 
agencies. Members heard testimony from: Dr. Nick Nayak, the 
Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer; Mr. 
Humberto Medina, the Assistant Director for Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement's National Firearms and Tactical Training 
Unit, and also the Chair of the DHS Weapons and Ammunition 
Commodity Council; and The Honorable Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., 
the Social Security Administration Inspector General, and Mr. 
Jon Adler, the National President of the Federal Law 
Enforcement Officers Association..
    In May 2013, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held 
a hearing examining government-issued identification card 
programs administered by the Transportation Security 
Administration. The hearing focused on agencies' efforts to 
incorporate secure biometric technologies into their 
identification card programs using TSA's Transportation Worker 
Identification Credential (TWIC) program as a case study. The 
hearing also featured testimony from the Government 
Accountability Office concerning a report regarding the use of 
biometric and other advanced technologies for the TWIC program. 
In June, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held a 
hearing entitled: ``Federal Government Approaches to Issuing 
Biometric IDs: Part II.'' The hearing examined the status, 
costs, and management of various federal identification cards. 
The hearing also focused on agencies' efforts to incorporate 
secure biometric technologies into their identification card 
programs.
    In June 2013, the Subcommittee on National Security held a 
hearing on border security entitled, Border Security Oversight: 
Identifying and Responding to Current Threats.'' Accordingly, 
the hearing examined various risks at the southwest border and 
discussed government responses to each threat, ranging from 
technological solutions to strategic placement of border patrol 
agents. Members received testimony from Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 
and the Government Accountability Office.
    In July 2013, the Subcommittee heard testimony from senior 
government witnesses about challenges in the asylum process at 
the border. The hearing assessed U.S. border security efforts 
and challenges to obtaining operational control of the 
southwest border, including the process and procedures relating 
to asylum requests.
    The Committee has been conducting extensive oversight of 
TSA's policies and programs since the agency's inception. The 
Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, P.L. 107-71, 
requires TSA to provide for the screening of individuals 
boarding commercial aircraft. To comply with this requirement, 
TSA has primarily relied upon technology to screen passengers 
at airport checkpoints. In response to the Christmas Day 
Bomber, however, TSA procured and deployed Advanced Imaging 
Technology (``AIT'' also known as ``Whole Body Imaging'') 
machines.
    Since the previous Congress, the Committee has been 
investigating alternative options for passenger screening that 
may be more effective than Advanced Imaging Technology. 
Accordingly, at the request of the Committee, GAO conducted 
tests examining other potential screening mechanisms, including 
the utility of an increased canine presence at airports.
    The Committee has conducted oversight and investigations of 
a broad range of other TSA policies and programs. To that end, 
it continues to examine aviation security matters including 
information sharing, federal workforce issues in managing 
airport security, and the training and supervision of airport 
screeners, and storage of equipment.
    The Committee has continued conducting oversight of U.S. 
Border Patrol and Customs operations, intended to secure the 
Southwest border. Since the Committee's July 9, 2009, hearing, 
drug cartel-related violence in Mexico has continued to 
escalate in both frequency and intensity. According to reports, 
``2,826 people were killed in 2007; more than twice that 
number, 6,837, in 2008; an additional forty per cent [sic], 
9,614, in 2009; and almost sixty per cent [sic] more, 15,273, 
last year [in 2010].'' Since December 2006, the total number of 
deaths in Mexico has risen above 50,000. Most of these crimes 
occurred within a short distance of the U.S. border, raising 
concerns about the security of U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, the 
Committee continues to conduct oversight in order to answer 
questions about whether the U.S. Southwest border is adequately 
secured.
    The Committee has been conducting oversight of 
cybersecurity policy. In July 2011, the Oversight and 
Government Reform Committee held a hearing, ``Cybersecurity: 
Assessing the Nation's Ability to Address the Growing Cyber 
Threat'' to further examine cybersecurity threats and 
challenges. The Committee has been continuing its effort to 
update FISMA.

Financial Management

    On July 10, 2013, the Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to 
Track Money and Performance.'' Comptroller General Dodaro 
testified about GAO's work on the Government Performance and 
Results Modernization Act (GPRAMA) and the 2012 Financial 
Report of the U.S. Government. The Comptroller General reported 
that the government failed to pass an audit of its financial 
statements. To date, the government has never passed an audit. 
As a result, GAO could not verify the accuracy or reliability 
of the government's spending. The Comptroller General noted 
that unless policy changes are made, the federal government 
faces an unsustainable fiscal path. The hearing also revealed 
that the government cannot track spending information. 
Comptroller General Dodaro testified that legislation to create 
unique identifiers and standardize spending information would 
help.\13\
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    \13\U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, Hearing, ``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports 
Show Feds Struggling to Track Money and Performance,'' July 10, 2013. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unaccountable-
government-gao-reports-show-feds-struggling-to-track-money-and-
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    On August 2, 2013, the Subcommittee on Government 
Operations held a hearing entitled, ``Examining the 
Skyrocketing Problem of Identity Theft Related Tax Fraud at the 
IRS.'' Witnesses included the Honorable Daniel Werfel, Acting 
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Mr. Michael 
McKenney, Deputy Inspector General for Audit at the Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Ms. Nina 
Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the Taxpayer Advocate 
Service at IRS, and Mr. Douglas MacGinnitie, State Revenue 
Commissioner at the Department of Revenue for the State of 
Georgia. The National Taxpayer Advocate reported that she has 
seen a 78 percent increase in identity theft cases at the IRS 
from FY 2011 to FY 2012. Over the last five years, the number 
of cases has increased by 413 percent. TIGTA testified that the 
IRS could pay out over $5 billion in potentially fraudulent 
returns in 2013. Mr. MacGinnitie testified that the State of 
Georgia was working with third party data providers to detect 
fraud on a state level and stop fraudulent payments before they 
are issued. Acting Commissioner Werfel acknowledged that it was 
a serious problem, and the IRS's work to combat identity theft 
related tax fraud will continue to grow.\14\
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Government Reform, Hearing, ``Examining the Skyrocketing Problem of 
Identity Theft Related Tax Fraud at the IRS,'' August 2, 2013. 
Available at: http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/examining-the-
skyrocketing-problem-of-identity-theft-related-tax-fraud-at-the-irs/.
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     V. Summary of Additional Oversight Activities Undertaken, and 
             Recommendations Made and Actions Taken Thereon


IRS Targeting

    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has 
conducted a comprehensive investigation into the IRS's 
inappropriate review of certain applicants for tax-exempt 
status. During the course of its investigation, the Committee 
reviewed more than 1.5 million pages of documents produced by 
the IRS, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, 
the Department of Treasury, the Department of Justice, the IRS 
Oversight Board, the Federal Election Commission, former and 
current IRS employees and other sources. Committee staff has 
conducted 44 transcribed interviews of current and former IRS 
officials; six transcribed interviews with current and former 
Treasury Department officials; and two transcribed interviews 
with attorneys from the Department of Justice. In addition to 
holding numerous hearings examining the allegations and the 
responsive actions of current and former officials at IRS, the 
Treasury Department and the Department of Justice, the majority 
staff of the Committee documented its investigation and 
findings in six staff reports (the latest is still 
forthcoming). The Committee's investigation found clear 
evidence that the IRS used inappropriate criteria to identify 
certain applications for tax-exempt status for review; however, 
several items of material interest subpoenaed by the Committee 
remain outstanding. In its forthcoming staff report, the 
majority Committee staff suggests a number of reforms.

Fast and Furious

    The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has 
continued to investigate the decision-making behind Operation 
Fast and Furious, a misguided ``gunwalking'' operation where 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) 
failed to track illegal firearms purchases, creating a danger 
to public safety on both sides of the border. On December 14, 
2010, Customs and Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in 
Arizona; two weapons found at the scene were traced to 
Operation Fast and Furious. The Committee's comprehensive 
investigation has exposed serious management and operational 
failures.
    On June 28, 2012, by a margin of 258-95, the House of 
Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in 
contempt of Congress. This vote authorized the Oversight and 
Government Reform Committee to seek redress in federal court in 
order to compel the Attorney General to produce documents 
pursuant to a duly authorized subpoena issued by the Committee. 
On August 13, 2012, the Committee filed a civil complaint 
against the Attorney General in U.S. District Court for the 
District of Columbia.
    In 2013, Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied the Department of 
Justice's Motion to Dismiss and Motion for Interlocutory Appeal 
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1292(b). Both the Committee and the 
Department of Justice subsequently filed Motions for Summary 
Judgment, and Judge Jackson denied them both on August 20, 
2014. Pursuant to Judge Jackson's order, the Department of 
Justice produced 64,280 pages of documents to the Committee on 
November 4, 2014. Those documents had been previously withheld, 
along with thousands of others, under a claim of Executive 
Privilege. The litigation is ongoing.

Wasteful Conference Spending

    During 2013, the Committee continued to build on its prior 
work on the now-infamous General Services Administration (GSA) 
conference in Las Vegas. Two conferences in particular, one 
held by the IRS and one held by the U.S. Department of Veterans 
Affairs (VA), deserved scrutiny for the excessive and wasteful 
spending that occurred at each.
    In June 2013, the Committee held a hearing to examine 
excessive spending that occurred at an IRS conference in 
Anaheim, California. An Inspector General audit revealed that 
the IRS employees who planned the conference approved excessive 
expenditures and engaged in questionable contracting practices. 
According to TIGTA, the IRS held 225 conferences at a total 
cost of over $50 million between 2010 and 2012. In particular, 
the Anaheim conference cost more than $4 million. It was a 
conference for IRS managers with approximately 2,700 attendees. 
Like the GSA conference planners, the IRS conference planners 
hired expensive speakers, held private receptions, produced 
expensive videos for entertainment, and occupied executive 
level suites at several hotels in Anaheim.
    With regard to the VA conference, the Committee learned in 
August 2012 about two conferences held in July 2011 and August 
2011 in Orlando, Florida. These two conferences, purportedly 
organized to train human resources professionals, cost 
taxpayers approximately $6.1 million. Financial mismanagement 
and ineffective oversight were widespread throughout the 
conference planning process. On October 1, 2012, the VA Office 
of Inspector General released a report focusing on the 
Department's wasteful expenditures associated with the 
conferences. The Committee requested documents from the 
Department in August 2012. After several follow-up document 
requests, the Committee issued a subpoena on July 9, 2013. On 
October 30, 2012, the full Committee held a hearing, which 
examined the Department's response to the waste and misconduct 
that occurred in relation to the planning and execution of the 
conferences. The Committee also released a Majority staff 
report detailing how conference expenditures skyrocketed due to 
failed oversight and financial irresponsibility. The report can 
be found on the Committee's website: http://
oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/VA-Conferences-
Majority-Staff-Report-10-30-2013-OGR-Committee.pdf.
    The Committee plans to continue to monitor the Department's 
progress in implementing the Inspector General's 
recommendations for improving policies and procedures within VA 
and making the necessary changes to prevent future waste of 
taxpayer dollars.

Affordable Care Act Implementation

    Building on its work in the 112th Congress, when the 
Committee conducted oversight of the implementation of the 
Affordable Care Act (ACA), potential negative economic effects, 
and its impact on individuals and businesses, the Committee in 
2013 has continued to devote significant resources to the laws 
effect on the insurance industry. In particular, the Committee 
has focused on several specific areas of ACA implementation, 
described below:
    Healthcare.gov--The Committee is investigating the causes 
of problems with the launch of the Healthcare.gov website, a 
critical feature of the President's health care law. The 
Committee sent several letters to the Department of Health and 
Human Services and the Executive Office of the President 
requesting documents and information related to the launch. 
After the Department failed to immediately provide the 
requested information, the Chairman issued a subpoena to 
Secretary Sebelius demanding unredacted documents containing 
information about HealthCare.gov's technical problems and other 
issues related to testing, design, and software.
    The Committee also requested information from top 
contractors involved with creation of the website. One of the 
main contractors, QSSI Inc., also refused to provide the 
requested information and was served with a subpoena issued by 
the Chairman. The Committee has received and is in the process 
of reviewing well in excess of one million documents received 
in response to the Committee's letters and subpoenas.
    The Committee has held three hearings on the 
Administration's failed website launch, and plans to hold three 
additional hearings by the end of December; four of the 
hearings are taking place outside of Washington (North 
Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Texas) to highlight the impact 
of the Affordable Care Act on individuals across the country. 
The Chairman issued a subpoena to the White House Office of 
Management and Budget Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, to 
appear before the Committee. Finally, the Committee is 
currently conducting multiple transcribed interviews of federal 
employees who were involved with building or testing 
HealthCare.gov.
    Navigators/Assisters--The Affordable Care Act requires 
states to establish ``Navigators'' to conduct outreach about 
the law, provide fair and impartial information to consumers, 
and facilitate enrollment in new health insurance exchanges and 
state Medicaid programs. When several states objected to 
financing Navigators with state revenue, the Administration 
created a twin program called In-Person Assisters (Assisters) 
in states with state-based exchanges. This year alone, the 
Administration will provide several hundred million dollars of 
taxpayer funds to Assister organizations. There is significant 
risk for fraud and abuse in these programs; top HHS officials 
expressed concerns about the risk of scam artists and identity 
thieves.
    In September, the Majority staff released a report with 
preliminary findings showing that the Navigators and Assisters 
pose security risks to consumers. The report can be found on 
the Committee's website: http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/
uploads/2013/09/Republican-Staff-Report-on-Navigators.pdf. The 
Committee held a hearing on the Navigators and Assisters 
programs in May 2013; the topic has also been highlighted in 
several other Committee hearings throughout the year. 
Additionally, the Committee is currently receiving and 
reviewing information in response to document requests to the 
Department of Health and Human Services and 17 state based 
exchanges.
    Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan--The Consumer Operated 
and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program used taxpayer money to loan 
$2 billion to companies establishing non-profit health 
insurance issuers. However, the Office of Management and Budget 
estimated the taxpayer losses for the loans at 43.2 percent. 
Moreover, several companies have experienced legal or financial 
troubles. For instance, the Vermont Health CO-OP, which 
received a $34 million taxpayer-backed loan, was in May 2013 
denied an insurance license by the state of Vermont. In letters 
to the Administration, the Committee expressed concern that the 
process used to select loan recipients was flawed and lacked 
transparency.
    The Committee initially requested information on the CO-OP 
program in October 2012 and again in March 2013. After these 
requests were ignored by the Department of Health and Human 
Services, the Chairman issued a subpoena for documents related 
to the CO-OP loan program in June 2013. The subpoena requires 
HHS to produce all documents related to the reviews which 
assessed each CO-OP applicant's financial viability, as well as 
communication between HHS employees, contractors and Executive 
Office employees discussing the applicants' financial viability 
or ability to repay the CO-OP loan. The Committee continues to 
receive and review documents from HHS in response to the 
Chairman's subpoena.

Benghazi

    In the wake of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on 
U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya which claimed the 
lives of four Americans, the Committee launched an 
investigation into the Administration's actions before, during 
and after the attack. To date, the Committee has sent more than 
45 letters, conducted approximately 26 witness interviews 
totaling 80+ hours and 3000+ pages of transcripts, reviewed 
more than 25,000 pages of documents, and issued nine subpoenas 
for documents and testimony. Several subpoenas for testimony 
were withdrawn after witnesses agreed to appear voluntarily.
    In addition, the Committee has held four hearings. The 
first hearing occurred on October 10, 2012 and included 
testimony from State Department and DOD personnel responsible 
for security in Libya prior to the attack. The second hearing 
took place on May 8, 2013 and the Committee received testimony 
from State Department personnel involved in the events before, 
during and after the attack. The hearing featured the first 
public testimony from an individual who was on the ground in 
Libya on the night of the attack. On September 19, 2013, the 
Committee held a third hearing to examine the work of the 
Accountability Review Board (ARB) and the findings of the 
Independent Panel on Best Practices, convened by the State 
Department at the ARB's recommendation to review the diplomatic 
security function of the Department. In advance of the 
September 19, 2013 hearing, the Majority released a 99-page 
interim staff report on ARB's process and conclusions, 
especially regarding accountability of State Department 
personnel. Additionally, the Minority released an 80-page staff 
report on the attacks, response, and the subsequent 
investigations. On May 1, 2014, the Committee held a fourth 
hearing on Benghazi and heard testimony from a witness who 
formerly worked for the Defense Department as well as witnesses 
testifying on U.S. policy toward Libya.

Sequester Oversight

    The Committee thoroughly analyzed the federal government's 
response to budget changes in 2013. On April 16, 2013, the Full 
Committee held a hearing featuring three agencies--the National 
Archives, the Smithsonian, and the National Park Service--to 
evaluate how each had coped with funding reductions under 
sequestration. The Smithsonian and the National Archives both 
handled sequestration with judicious planning.
    The Committee revisited this issue in October, when it held 
a joint hearing with the Natural Resources Committee to examine 
the Park Service's response to the government shutdown. At this 
hearing, Chairman Issa issued a subpoena to the Park Service 
for documents not produced in response to the Committee's 
sequestration investigation and which were the subject of a 
March 3, 2013, letter, which was followed by two letters in 
October seeking information about sequestration.
    Since the subpoena has been issued, the Committee has been 
in discussions with the Park Service about the production of 
responsive documents. So far, the Park Service has produced the 
sequestration plans implemented by each park, but the Committee 
still seeks drafts of these reports and the correspondence 
relating to chosen cuts. The Committee plans to continue its 
investigation into the Park Service's handling of sequestration 
and monitor its responses to future budget adjustments.

IRS Contracting Abuse

    In February 2013, the Committee learned of allegations 
concerning a series of contracts, potentially worth more than 
$500 million, awarded by the Internal Revenue Service over a 
six-month period to Strong Castle, Inc., an information 
technology contractor. Witnesses who contacted the Committee 
alleged that Strong Castle engaged in fraud to win the IRS 
contracts. Strong Castle obtained contracts with the IRS 
largely based on the company's access to contracting set-asides 
for small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans 
(SDVOSB) and connections to economically disadvantaged 
neighborhoods (HUBZone).
    The Committee's investigation involved reviewing more than 
25,000 pages of documents produced by the IRS, Strong Castle, 
the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and the 
Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA). Committee staff conducted 
16 transcribed interviews of IRS procurement officials, Strong 
Castle employees, and other relevant witnesses. Chairman Issa 
sent nine letters about the investigation to SBA, VA, IRS, and 
Strong Castle. SBA, VA, and IRS provided multiple briefings.
    A Majority staff report released on June 25, 2013, detailed 
the findings and recommendations of the investigation in 
anticipation of a full Committee hearing held June 26, 2013. 
The report is available on the Committee's website: http://
oversight.house.gov/report/staff-report-questionable-
acquisitions-problematic-it-contracting-at-the-irs/. A video 
clip of Congresswoman Duckworth questioning Strong Castle's CEO 
about his service disability has been viewed over two million 
times on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPOKm20wP4s.
    As a result of the Committee's investigation, the SBA 
decertified Strong Castle as a HUBZone firm, observing that the 
company provided inaccurate, unreliable, and misleading 
information. In addition, the IRS pledged to suspend orders for 
IT products and services from Strong Castle and on December 5, 
2013, executed a bilateral contract action to discontinue the 
contract arrangement with Strong Castle under a blanket 
purchase agreement in support of the IBM Software Relationship 
Offering (SRO), worth an estimated total dollar value of $300 
million over five years. Moreover, on the legislative front, 
Chairman Issa and Congresswoman Duckworth have introduced the 
SERV Act (H.R. 3469), which would ensure that only individuals 
who have actually served in the military can qualify to receive 
government contracting preferences and other related benefits.
    The Committee's findings regarding Strong Castle should 
serve as a deterrent for other current and prospective 
government contractors who may be considering ways to abuse 
set-aside programs established to benefit disadvantaged 
populations and underutilized communities. While the Committee 
was able to stop the abuses of one contractor, the Committee 
learned that these problems are widespread and require 
government-wide solutions. The Committee continues to monitor 
Strong Castle and other similarly-situated contractors to 
prevent similar abuses in the future.

New York State Medicaid Abuse

    The Committee is investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and 
mismanagement in New York State's Medicaid program. A March 
Committee Report from the House Oversight and Government Reform 
Committee described the findings discovered and uncovered by 
the Committee. In response to the Committee's oversight of 
overpayments received by State-operated institutions in New 
York, the Department of Health and Human Services sharply 
reduced some Medicaid overpayments to the State of New York in 
April, saving taxpayers an estimated $1.2 billion over 18 
months. New York State's Medicaid program is the largest in the 
country.
    According to the Committee report, in fiscal year 2010, New 
York's $2,700 per resident Medicaid spending exceeded per 
capita Medicaid spending in the rest of the country by more 
than $1,500. When problems with the State's program have been 
identified, the cost associated has often been large as well. 
The bipartisan Committee report found that poor program 
oversight by both the State and federalGovernment has 
contributed to these problems.
    A September 2012 staff report estimated that over the past 
two decades the federal government had made roughly $15 billion 
in overpayments to the State of New York since 1990 for the 
developmental centers alone. By 2011, Medicaid's daily 
reimbursement rate exceeded $5,100 for each patient residing in 
a developmental center.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Investigation 
        of 2014

    The CSB is an independent agency charged with investigating 
chemical accidents. In the fall of 2012, the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency's Inspector General (EPA IG), who has 
authority over the CSB, began investigating allegations that 
the CSB General Counsel learned the identities of several CSB 
whistleblowers who filed complaints with the U.S. Office of 
Special Counsel (OSC). Federal law requires OSC to protect the 
identities of complainants.
    The EPA IG discovered that CSB leadership used personal e-
mail accounts to conduct official business to avoid scrutiny 
from investigators. CSB's application of attorney-client 
privilege to documents caused the IG to eventually bring the 
matter to the attention of Congress.
    On September 5, 2013, EPA Inspector General Arthur A. 
Elkins, Jr. sent a ``seven-day letter'' to Congress regarding 
CSB's refusal to cooperate with his leak investigation. Section 
5(d) of the Inspector General Act, as amended, requires IGs to 
report immediately to the agency head whenever the IG becomes 
aware of ``particularly serious or flagrant problems, abuses, 
or deficiencies relating to the administration of programs or 
operations.''}[1] Reports made pursuant to Section 
5(d) of the IG Act are commonly referred to as ``seven-day 
letters.''}[2] Because IGs typically reserve the use 
of a seven-day letter for only the most urgent matters, 
Congress--and the House Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform specifically--takes these matters very seriously.
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    \[1]\Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, Pub. L. 110-409 
[hereinafter IG Act].
    \[2]\Id.
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    In response to the seven-day letter, the Committee on 
Oversight and the House Committee on Science and Technology 
sought more information regarding CSB's unwillingness to 
cooperate with the EPA IG's leak investigation. The seven-day 
letter was a red flag that CSB was suffering from 
mismanagement. Once the Committee began its investigation of 
the seven-day letter allegations with assistance from the 
Science Committee, it became clear there were in fact serious 
management deficiencies at the CSB.
    The Committee conducted ten transcribed interviews of 
current and former CSB employees, received several briefings, 
and reviewed several hundred documents produced by the EPA OIG, 
the OSC, and the CSB. To date, it is unclear whether CSB has 
provided the Committee with a complete production of relevant 
documents, given its lack of full cooperation with the 
Committee's investigation. The deficiencies uncovered during 
the course of the investigation led the Committee to conclude 
that CSB is failing to fulfill its mission under Chairman 
Moure-Eraso's leadership.
    Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso was nominated to the CSB by 
President Obama in March 2010 and confirmed by the Senate in 
June 2010. Chairman Moure-Eraso's term will expire in 2015 as 
CSB Board Members serve fixed terms of five years. Since Dr. 
Moure-Eraso took over as Chairman in June 2010, at least nine 
employees--investigators and attorneys--have left the agency, 
which has approximately 40 employees in total. Current and 
former CSB employees informed the Committee that under Chairman 
Moure-Eraso's ``bullying'' and ``abusive'' leadership, the 
current work environment is ``toxic.'' Some employees fear 
retaliation for any action perceived as questioning the 
chairman or assisting other Board Members. Some employees 
believe they have faced retaliation, including being stripped 
of their responsibilities.
    As in the NRC investigation, the Committee uncovered a lack 
of collegiality among the Board members. Dr. Beth Rosenberg 
resigned from the Board on May 31, 2014, after serving just 
over a year. Upon her departure, Dr. Rosenberg told Bloomberg 
BNA:

          I feel I can do more good from outside the agency 
        than within it . . . [a]s a board member, I expected 
        the opportunities to influence the workings and 
        priorities of the agency to be greater than they were. 
        The ill-defined role of board members in relation to 
        the chair, as well as in relation to the staff, made it 
        difficult to have any meaningful influence. . . . I'm 
        looking forward to going back to an academic 
        environment where open debate is valued.[3]
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    \[3]\Robert Iafolla, CSB Member Resigns in Frustration: Chair 
Expects Vacancies To Be Filled Soon, Bloomberg BNA, (May 27, 2014).

    The mission of CSB is to investigate chemical accidents, 
make recommendations to prevent future accidents, and ensure 
that its recommendations are implemented. Chairman Moure-
Eraso's leadership style has detracted from this mission.
    On June 19, 2014, the Oversight Committee, along with the 
Science Committee released a staff report and held a full 
Committee hearing entitled ``Whistleblower Reprisal and 
Management Failures at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.'' 
Chairman Moure-Eraso, former Board Member Beth Rosenberg, and 
EPA IG Elkins were among the witnesses. Based on the staff 
report and hearing testimony, there were bipartisan calls for 
Chairman Moure-Eraso's resignation during the hearing. On July 
7, 2014, Chairman Issa, Chairman Lamar Smith, and four other 
Members of Congress wrote President Obama requesting that he 
consider whether Chairman Moure-Eraso was fit to continue 
leading the CSB. To date, the President has not responded and 
Moure-Eraso continues to lead the beleaguered agency.

 VI. Delineation of Hearings Held Pursuant to Clauses 2 (n), (o), and 
                         (p) of House Rule 11.


Hearings Held Pursuant to Clause 2(n)

    Jan. 22, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Wasting Information Technology Dollars: How Can the Federal 
Government Reform its IT Investment Strategy?''
    Feb. 5, 2013, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Government Spending: How Can We Best Address the Billions of 
Dollars Wasted Every Year?''.
    Feb. 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Time to Reform Information Technology Acquisition: The 
Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.''
    Feb. 27, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Failures in Managing Federal 
Real Property: Billions in Losses.''
    March 5, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste and Mismanagement: Implementing Agency 
Watchdogs' Recommendations Could Save Taxpayers Billions''
    Mar. 19, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``DOD and DHS: Implementing Agency Watchdogs' Recommendations 
Could Save Taxpayers Billions.''
    Apr. 17, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Options to Bring the Postal Service Back from Insolvency.''
    Apr. 17, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Contracting to Feed U.S. Troops in 
Afghanistan: How did the Defense Department end up in a Multi-
Billion Dollar Billing Dispute?''
    Apr. 25, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Government Operations Oversight: 
Addressing Unused and Vacant Federal Property.''
    Apr. 25, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security and Subcommittee on Economic Growth joint hearing 
entitled, ``Oversight of the Federal Government's Procurement 
of Ammunition.''
    June 5, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, ``OPM's 
Revolving Fund: A Cycle of Government Waste?''
    June 12, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Protecting Taxpayer Dollars: Is the Government Using 
Suspension and Debarment Effectively?''
    June 26, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The IRS Contracts with Strong Castle, Inc.''
    July 10, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to 
Track Money and Performance.''
    July 25, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Data Centers and the Cloud, Part 
II: The Federal Government's Take on Optimizing New Information 
Technologies Opportunities to Save Taxpayers Money.''
    Sept. 11, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Ensuring an Accurate and Affordable 2020 Census.''
    Nov. 20, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security hearing entitled, ``Abuse of Overtime at DHS: Padding 
Paychecks and Pensions at Taxpayer Expense.''
    Dec. 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations field hearing entitled, ``Federal Trade Commission 
and General Services Administration Thwart Cost Saving 
Consolidation.''
    Jan. 9, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Waste in Government: What's Being Done?''
    November 18, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee joint hearing 
with the Committee on the Judiciary entitled, ``Abuse of 
USPTO's Telework Program: Ensuring Oversight, Accountability 
and Quality.''
    March 4, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, US Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Alaska Bypass: A Broken System.''
    July 29, 2014, 10 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Federal Real Property: 
Eliminating Waste and Mismanagement of Real Property Assets.''

Hearing Held Pursuant to Clause 2(o)

    July 10, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to 
Track Money and Performance.''
    April 8, 2014, 10 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing entitled, 
``The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the 
Postal Service.''

Hearings Held Pursuant to Clause 2(p)

    Feb. 14, 2013, 10:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Exploring GAO's High Risk List and Opportunities for 
Reform.''
    Feb. 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Time to Reform Information Technology Acquisition: The 
Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.''
    Feb. 27, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Failures in Managing Federal 
Real Property: Billions in Losses.''
    Apr. 9, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO's 2013 Report on 
Duplicative Federal Programs.''
    Apr. 10, 2013, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census hearing entitled, 
``Ahead of Postal Reform: Hearing from USPS Business 
Partners.''
    Apr. 17, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Options to Bring the Postal Service Back from Insolvency.''
    Apr. 17, 2013, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security 
hearing entitled, ``Contracting to Feed U.S. Troops in 
Afghanistan: How did the Defense Department end up in a Multi-
Billion Dollar Billing Dispute?''
    Apr. 24, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Broken Promises: the Small Business Lending Fund's Backdoor 
Bank Bailout.''
    May 9, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Federal Government Approaches to 
Issuing Biometric IDs.''
    May 16, 2013, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Opportunities 
Lost: Constraints on Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands 
and Waters.''
    June 27, 2013, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Health Care and Entitlements hearing entitled, ``Oversight of 
Rising Social Security Disability Claims and the Role of 
Administrative Law Judges.''
    August 2, 2013, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations hearing entitled, ``Examining the Skyrocketing 
Problem of Identity Theft Related Tax Fraud at the IRS.''
    Dec. 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Operations field hearing entitled, ``Federal Trade Commission 
and General Services Administration Thwart Cost Saving 
Consolidation.''
    April 8, 2014, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Reducing Waste in Government: Addressing GAO's 2014 Report on 
Duplicative Federal Programs.'' Witness: The Honorable Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office.