[House Report 116-710]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


                                                 Union Calendar No. 594
116th Congress     }                                  {         Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session        }                                  {         116-710
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                               ACTIVITIES

                                 of the

                   COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM

                     ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS

                           DECEMBER 31, 2020

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



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 December 31, 2020.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
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                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                         Committee on Oversight and Reform,
                                 Washington, DC, December 31, 2020.
Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Madam Speaker: Under Rule XI, Clause 1(d)(1) of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives, ``[n]ot later than 
January 2 of each odd-numbered year, a committee shall submit 
to the House a report on the activities of that committee.'' 
Pursuant to this Rule, I respectfully submit the activities 
report of the Committee on Oversight and Reform for the 116th 
Congress. As required by the Rule, a copy of this report ``has 
been available to each member of the [C]ommittee for . . . 
seven calendar days.''
            Sincerely,
                                        Carolyn B. Maloney,
                                                        Chairwoman.
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                            C O N T E N T S

  I. INTRODUCTION.................................................... 1
 II. OVERSIGHT HEARINGS.............................................. 2
            A. Full Committee....................................     2
            B. Subcommittee on National Security.................    10
            C. Subcommittee on Government Operations.............    12
            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy......    15
            E. Subcommittee on Environment.......................    16
            F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties..    19
            G. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.....    22
III. FORMAL BIPARTISAN MEMBER BRIEFINGS HELD IN LIEU OF HEARINGS DURING 
     COVID-19 PANDEMIC.............................................. 23
            A. Full Committee....................................    23
            B. Subcommittee on National Security.................    24
            C. Subcommittee on Government Operations.............    25
            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy......    26
            E. Subcommittee on Environment.......................    26
            F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties..    26
            G. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.....    27
 IV. LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.................................... 28
            A. Business Meetings (Legislation)...................    28
            B. Business Meeting (Subpoena).......................    29
            C. Legislation Enacted into Law......................    29
            D. Bills Passed by the House.........................    34
            E. Legislation Considered by the Committee...........    43
            F. Postal Naming Measures Enacted into Law...........    47
            G. Postal Naming Measures Passed by the House........    51
            H. Postal Naming Measures Approved by the Committee..    53
  V. SUMMARY OF OVERSIGHT PLAN AND CORRESPONDING ACTIONS............ 53
            A. Full Committee....................................    55
              i. Health Care and Increasing Drug Prices..........    55
              ii. Executive Branch Ethics, Transparency, and 
                  Accountability.................................    57
              iii The President's Business Interests, Conflicts 
                  of Interest, and Emoluments....................    58
               iv. Security Clearances...........................    65
              v. Voting Rights, Voter Suppression, and Election 
                  Security.......................................    65
              vi. Environment and Public Health..................    66
              vii. Immigration...................................    67
              viii Workers' Rights and Protections...............    69
              ix. Homeland and National Security.................    70
              x. Criminal Justice Reform.........................    72
              xi. Census.........................................    72
              xii. Postal Service................................    73
              xiii. Cybersecurity and Privacy....................    74
              xiv. Electronic Location Data......................    75
              xv. Student Loans and For-Profit Colleges..........    76
              xvi. Title ix and Campus Sexual Assault............    76
              xvii. Government Contracting.......................    77
            B. Subcommittee on National Security.................    78
              i. War in Afghanistan..............................    78
              ii. Veterans and Related Issues....................    78
              iii. U.S. Foreign Policy and Counterterrorism......    79
              iv. Homeland Security..............................    80
            C. Subcommittee on Government Operations.............    81
              i. Federal Information Technology and Cybersecurity 
                  Policy.........................................    81
              ii. Administration Reorganization Plans............    82
              iii. Protections for Whistleblowers................    82
              iv. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.    83
              v. Intergovernmental Affairs.......................    83
              vi. Federal Property Management and Procurement....    84
              vii. Support for the Federal Workforce.............    84
            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy......    85
              i. Carcinogens in Consumer Talc Products...........    85
              ii. Youth E-Cigarette Epidemic and JUUL............    85
              iii. Coronavirus-Related Waste, Fraud, and Abuse...    87
              iv. For-Profit Colleges and Student Debt...........    89
              v. Privacy and Cybersecurity.......................    89
              vi. Payday Lending.................................    89
              vii. Treasury Department's Opportunity Zones 
                  Program........................................    90
            E. Subcommittee on Environment.......................    90
              i. Environmental Regulatory Reform Efforts and 
                  their Impacts..................................    90
              ii. Transparency in Executive Branch Environmental 
                  Actions........................................    91
              iii. Storage of Nuclear Waste......................    91
              iv. Natural Disasters..............................    92
              v. Climate Change and the Development of 
                  Alternative Energy Sources.....................    92
              vi. Public Health Implications of Government 
                  Actions and Policies...........................    93
            F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties..    93
              i. Voting Rights...................................    93
              ii. Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, and 
                  Assembly.......................................    94
              iii. Equal Protection and Respect for Equal Rights 
                  Throughout Society.............................    94
              iv. Property Rights................................    95
              v. Immigration.....................................    95
              vi. Census.........................................    96
              vii. Criminal Justice Reform.......................    96
 VI. SUMMARY OF ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS......... 97
            A. Additional Oversight and Investigations of the 
                Full Committee and Standing Subcommittees........    97
              i. Coronavirus Pandemic............................    97
              ii. President's Abuse of Power and Obstruction of 
                  Congress (Impeachment).........................    98
              iii. Scientific Integrity in Health Policymaking...    99
              iv. Inspector General Independence.................   100
              v. Federal Vacancies and Acting Officials..........   100
              vi. Facial Recognition Technology..................   101
              vii. Paid Leave for Federal Employees..............   101
              viii. Childhood Trauma.............................   102
            B. Oversight Activities of the Select Subcommittee on 
                the Coronavirus Crisis...........................   103
              i. White House Coronavirus Task Force..............   103
              ii. Loan to Eastman Kodak Company..................   104
              iii. Operation Warp Speed..........................   104
              iv. Political Interference in Public Health........   105
              v. HHS Coronavirus Advertising Campaign............   105
              vi. Challenges to Reopening K-12 Schools...........   105
              vii. Farmers to Families Food Box Program..........   106
              viii. Economic Impact Payments.....................   106
              xi. Protecting Homeowners and Renters During the 
                  Pandemic.......................................   106
              x. Free, Fair, and Safe Elections During the 
                  Pandemic.......................................   107
              xi. Paycheck Protection Program....................   107
              xii. Emergency Lending Facilities..................   108
              xiii. Payroll Support Program......................   108
            C. Official Travel/Delegations.......................   109
            D. State and District Level Reports..................   109
VII. HEARINGS HELD PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(n) OF HOUSE RULE XI........ 110
VIII.HEARINGS HELD PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (p) OF HOUSE RULE XI......... 116





                                                      Calendar No. 594
116th Congress     }                                    {      Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session        }                                    {     116-710

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          ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM

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 December 31, 2020.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
            the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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 Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney, from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                            I. INTRODUCTION

    During the 116th Congress, the Committee on Oversight and 
Reform and its subcommittees held 134 hearings, as well as 
several virtual Member briefings in addition to hearings 
beginning in March 2020 when House offices began teleworking in 
response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee issued 238 
state and district level staff reports for Members of the House 
covering issues ranging from drug prices to census data to 
climate change. In addition, 16 bills advanced by the Committee 
were enacted into law. An additional 33 bills, not including 
postal naming measures, were passed by the House. Seven of 
those House-passed bills may be enacted into law in the final 
days of the 116th Congress after the filing of this report.
    Major investigations conducted during the 116th Congress 
included the high cost of prescription drugs; the federal 
response and other issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic; 
efforts to combat the opioid crisis; barriers to health care 
access; self-dealing and violations of ethics laws by senior 
Executive Branch officials; the President's conflicts of 
interest; security clearances and safeguarding classified 
information; voting rights, voter suppression, and election 
security; climate change; child separation; workers' rights and 
protections; efforts by senior Administration and White House 
officials to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear 
technology to Saudi Arabi; preparations for the 2020 Decennial 
Census and the Trump Administration's efforts to add a 
citizenship question; mismanagement and challenges facing the 
Postal Service; cybersecurity, privacy, and consumer protection 
issues; and the President's conditioning of a White House visit 
and critical U.S. military assistance for Ukraine in exchange 
for a promise that the Ukrainian President would conduct an 
investigation into President Trump's political rival, then-
former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory 
that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 
presidential election.
    At the beginning of the 116th Congress, the Committee Chair 
was Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and the Ranking Member was Rep. Jim 
Jordan. Chairman Cummings passed away on October 17, 2019. On 
November 20, 2019, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney was selected to 
succeed Chairman Cummings as Chair of the Committee. On June 
29, 2020, Rep. James R. Comer was selected to replace Jim 
Jordan as Ranking Member.
    To carry out its duties as effectively as possible, at the 
beginning of the 116th Congress, the Committee established the 
following five standing subcommittees: Subcommittee on National 
Security; Subcommittee on Government Operations; Subcommittee 
on Economic and Consumer Policy; Subcommittee on Environment; 
and Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. On April 
23, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the House 
passed H. Res. 935 establishing the Select Subcommittee on the 
Coronavirus Crisis as an additional investigative subcommittee 
of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.
    This report describes the Committee's major oversight and 
legislative accomplishments, provides a summary of Committee 
and Subcommittee proceedings, and summarizes activities of the 
Subcommittees during the 116th Congress.

                         II. OVERSIGHT HEARINGS


                           A. Full Committee

    In the 116th Congress, the full Committee held 45 hearings, 
receiving testimony from 201 witnesses. Those hearings include:
    Hearing on ``Examining the Actions of Drug Companies in 
Raising Prescription Drug Prices'' (January 29, 2019). 
Witnesses: Dr. Gerard Anderson, Professor of Health Policy and 
Management, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Catherine Alicia 
Georges, National Volunteer President, AARP; Dr. Aaron 
Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical 
School; Mr. Avik S.A. Roy, President, The Foundation for 
Research on Equal Opportunity; Ms. Antroinette Worsham, Mother 
of Two Insulin-Dependent Daughters.
    Hearing on ``H.R. 1: Strengthening Ethics Rules for the 
Executive Branch'' (February 6, 2019).
    Witnesses: Mr. Scott Amey, General Counsel, Project on 
Government Oversight; Mrs. Karen Hobert Flynn, President, 
Common Cause; Mr. Rudy Mehrbani, Spitzer Fellow and Senior 
Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice; Mr. Walter Shaub Jr., 
Senior Advisor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in 
Washington; Mr. Bradley A. Smith, Chairman, Institute for Free 
Speech.
    Hearing ``With Michael Cohen, Former Attorney to President 
Donald Trump'' (February 27, 2019). Witness: Mr. Michael Cohen, 
Former Attorney for Donald Trump.
    Hearing on ``GAO's 2019 High Risk Report'' (March 6, 2019). 
Witness: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General, 
Government Accountability Office.
    Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's Response to the 
Drug Crisis'' (March 7, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable James 
W. Carroll Jr., Director, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; Mr. Mike McDaniel, Director, Houston High Intensity 
Drug Trafficking Area; Ms. Triana McNeil, Acting Director, 
Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office.
    Hearing on ``FOIA: Examining Transparency Under the Trump 
Administration'' (March 13, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Timothy R. 
Epp, Acting Director, National FOIA Office, Office of General 
Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency; Ms. Melanie Ann 
Pustay, Director, Office of Information Policy, Department of 
Justice; Ms. Rachel Spector, Acting Deputy Chief Freedom of 
Information Act Officer, Department of the Interior.
    Hearing ``With Commerce Secretary, Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.'' 
(March 14, 2019). Witness: Wilbur Ross, Secretary, Department 
of Commerce.
    Hearing on ``Member Day'' (March 28, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Mo Brooks, Member of Congress, AL-05; The Honorable 
Mike Gallagher, Member of Congress, WI-08; The Honorable Derek 
Kilmer, Member of Congress, WA-06; The Honorable Paul Mitchell, 
Member of Congress, MI-10; The Honorable Christopher H. Smith, 
Member of Congress, MJ-04; The Honorable Jackie Speier, Member 
of Congress, CA-14; The Honorable Tim Walberg, Member of 
Congress, MI-07.
    Hearing on ``The Need for Leadership to Combat Climate 
Change and Protect National Security'' (April 9, 2019). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Charles T. Hagel, Former Secretary of 
Defense, Former United States Senator; The Honorable John F. 
Kerry, Former Secretary of State, Former United States Senator.
    Hearing on ``The Financial Condition of the Postal 
Service'' (April 30, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Megan J. 
Brennan, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service; Ms. 
Margaret M. Cigno, Director, Office of Accountability and 
Compliance, Postal Regulatory Commission; Mr. Joel Quadracci, 
Charmain, President, and Chief Executive Office, Quad/Graphics; 
Mr. Fredric V. Rolando, President, National Association of 
Letter Carriers; Mr. Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy 
Studies, Cato Institute.
    Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's Response to the 
Drug Crisis, Part II'' (May 9, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
James W. Carroll Jr., Director, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; Ms. Triana McNeil, Acting Director Homeland Security 
and Justice, Government Accountability Office; Ms. Karyl Thomas 
Rattay, M.D., M.S., Director, Delaware Division of Public 
Health; Sheriff Wayne Ivey, Brevard County, Florida.
    Hearing on ``DOD Inspector General Report on Excess Profits 
by TransDigm Group, Inc.'' (May 15, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Kevin Fahey, Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition, Department of Defense; The Honorable Glenn Fine, 
Acting Inspector General, Department of Defense; Mr. Nicholas 
Howley, Executive Chairman and Founder, TransDigm; Ms. Theresa 
Hull, Assistant Inspector General for Acquisition, Office of 
Inspector General, Department of Defense; Mr. Kevin Stein, 
Chief Executive Officer, TransDigm.
    Hearing on ``HIV Prevention Drug: Billions in Corporate 
Profits after Millions in Taxpayer Investments'' (May 16, 
2019). Witnesses: Mr. Daniel O'Day, Chairman and Chief 
Executive Officer, Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Dr. Robert M. Grant, 
Professor of Medicine, University of California; Dr. Rochelle 
Walensky, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts 
General Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard University; 
Mr. Tim Horn, Director, Medication Access and Pricing, National 
Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD); Dr. 
Aaron Lord, PrEP Patient and Advocate; Mr. Stephen Ezell, Vice 
President, Global Innovation Policy, Information Technology and 
Innovation Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Facial Recognition Technology (Part I): Its 
Impact on our Civil Rights and Liberties'' (May 22, 2019). 
Witnesses: Ms. Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice 
League; Mr. Andrew G. Ferguson, Professor of Law, University of 
the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law; Ms. 
Clare Garvie, Senior Associate, Georgetown University Law 
Center, Center on Privacy & Technology; Ms. Neema Singh 
Guliani, Senior Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties 
Union; Dr. Cedric Alexander, Former President, National 
Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
    Hearing on ``Facial Recognition Technology (Part II): 
Ensuring Transparency in Government Use'' (June 4, 2019). 
Witnesses: Ms. Kimberly J. Del Greco, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Criminal Justice Information Services, Federal Bureau 
of Investigation; Dr. Gretta L. Goodwin, Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. Austin Gould, Assistant Administrator, Requirements and 
Capabilities Analysis, Transportation Security Administration; 
Dr. Charles H. Romine, Director, Information Technology 
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
    Hearing on ``Medical Experts: Inadequate Federal Approach 
to Opioid Treatment and the Need to Expand Care'' (June 19, 
2019). Witnesses: Dr. Susan R. Bailey, President-elect, 
American Medical Association; Dr. Arthur C. Evans, Chief 
Executive Officer/Executive Vice President, American 
Psychological Association; Ms. Angela Gray BSN, RN, Nurse 
Director, Berkeley-Morgan County Board of Health, West 
Virginia; Dr. Yngvild K. Olsen, Vice President, American 
Society of Addiction Medicine; Ms. Jean Ross RN, President, 
National Nurses United; Dr. Nancy K. Young, Executive Director, 
Children and Family Futures.
    Hearing on ``Identifying, Resolving, and Preventing 
Vulnerabilities in TSA's Security Operations'' (June 25, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Donald Bumgardner, Deputy Assistant Inspector 
General, Office of Inspector General; Mr. Charles M. Johnson 
Jr., Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; The Honorable David P. 
Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, 
Department of Homeland Security.
    Hearing on ``Violations of the Hatch Act Under the Trump 
Administration'' (June 26, 2019). Witness: The Honorable Henry 
J. Kerner, Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel.
    Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's Attack on the ACA: 
Reversal in Court Case Threatens Health Care for Millions of 
Americans'' (July 10, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Abbe Gluck, 
Director and Professor of Law, Solomon Center for Health Law 
and Policy, Yale University Law School; Mr. Frederick Isasi, 
Executive Director, Families, U.S.A; Ms. Casey Dye, Patient/
Consumer, Monroeville, Pennsylvania; Mr. Peter Morley, Patient/
Consumer, New York, New York; Mr. Paul Gibbs, Patient/Consumer, 
West Valley, Utah; Ms. Stephanie Burton, Patient/Consumer, 
Kansas City, Missouri; Mr. David Balat, Director, Right on 
Healthcare Initiative, Texas Public Policy Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Identifying, Preventing, and Treating 
Childhood Trauma: Pervasive Public Health Issue that Needs 
Greater Federal Attention'' (July 11, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. 
William Kellibrew, Founder, The William Kellibrew Foundation; 
Ms. Heather Martin, Executive Director and Co-Founder, The 
Rebels Project; Mr. Justin Miller, Deputy Executive Director, 
Objective Zero Foundation; Ms. Creeana Rygg, Survivor and 
Activist; Dr. Debra Houry, Director, National Center for Injury 
Prevention & Control, Center for Disease Control and 
Prevention; Mr. James Henry, Former Deputy Governor & Chief of 
Staff, State of Tennessee; Mr. Charles Patterson, Health 
Commissioner, Clark County, Ohio; Dr. Christina Bethell, 
Director, Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative; 
Dr. Denese Shervington, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, 
Tulane University School of Medicine.
    Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's Child Separation 
Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment'' (July 12, 
2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Veronica Escobar, Member of 
Congress, TX-16; The Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Member 
of Congress, NY-14; The Honorable Ayanna Pressley, Member of 
Congress, MA-07; The Honorable Rashida Tlaib, Member of 
Congress, MI-13; Ms. Jennifer L. Costello, Acting Inspector 
General, Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Thomas D. Homan, 
Former Acting Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; 
Ms. Ann Maxwell, Assistant Inspector General for Evaluation and 
Inspections, Department of Health and Human Services; Ms. Elora 
Mukherjee, Director, Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Columbia Law 
School; Ms. Jennifer Nagda, Policy Director, Young Center for 
Immigrant Children's Rights.
    Hearing on ``Violations of the Hatch Act Under the Trump 
Administration, Part II: Kellyanne Conway'' (July 15, 2019). 
Expected Witness: Ms. Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the 
President, The White House. (Although the Committee issued a 
subpoena compelling the expected witness's testimony, the 
witness failed to appear at this hearing.)
    Hearing ``With the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security 
Kevin K. McAleenan'' (July 18, 2019). Witness: The Honorable 
Kevin K. McAleenan.
    Hearing ``The Patient Perspective: The Devastating Impacts 
of Skyrocketing Drug Prices on American Families'' (July 26, 
2019). Witnesses: Ms. Ashley Krege, Patient, Houston, Texas; 
Ms. Sa'ra Skipper, Patient, Indianapolis, Indiana; Ms. Pam 
Holt, Patient, Grangier, Indiana; Mr. David Mitchell, Patient, 
Founder, Patients for Affordable Drugs, Bethesda, Maryland; Ms. 
Laura McLinn, Mother of Patient, Indianapolis, Indiana.
    Hearing on ``H.R. 51: Making D.C. the 51st State'' 
(September 19, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Muriel Bowser, 
Mayor, District of Columbia; Mr. Jeffrey S. DeWitt, Chief 
Financial Officer, District of Columbia; The Honorable Phil 
Mendelson, Chairman, Council of the District of Columbia; Mr. 
Kerwin Miller, Veteran and District of Columbia Resident; Dr. 
Roger Pilon, B. Kenneth Simon Chair, Constitutional Studies, 
Cato Institute; Mr. Kenneth Thomas, Legislative Attorney, 
Congressional Research Service.
    Hearing on ``Examining State Efforts to Undermine Access to 
Reproductive Health Care'' (November 14, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. 
Jennifer Box, St. Louis, Missouri; Ms. Fatima Goss Graves, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Women's Law 
Center; Ms. Marcela Howell, Founder and President/Chief 
Executive Officer, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's 
Reproductive Justice Agenda; Dr. Colleen McNicholas, OB/GYN, 
Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis 
Region and Southwest Missouri; Ms. Allie Stuckey, Carrollton, 
Texas.
    Hearing on ``Examining the Need for Comprehensive National 
Paid Family and Medical Leave'' (December 10, 2019). Witnesses: 
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman, CT-03; Ms. Jacqui 
Silvani, Newfields, New Hampshire; The Honorable Robert Asaro-
Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and 
Workforce Development; Mr. Aaron Seyedian, Founder, Well-Paid 
Maids; Ms. Jennifer Tucker, Senior Policy Advisor, The National 
Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Ms. Vicki Shabo, Senior 
Fellow, Paid Leave Policy and Strategy, Better Life Lab, New 
America,; Ms. Rachel Greszler, Research Fellow, Economics, 
Budget, and Entitlements, The Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``H.R. 51: Making D.C. the 51st State'' 
(December 19, 2020). The Committee continued its hearing on 
H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which recessed on 
September 19, 2019. Prior to the completion of the September 19 
hearing, Ranking Member Jim Jordan and other Republican 
Committee Members sent a letter pursuant to House Rule XI, 
Clause 2(j)(1) requesting six additional witnesses for a 
subsequent minority day of hearings. Witnesses invited: The 
Honorable Jack Evans, Member, Council of the District of 
Columbia; Corbett A. Price, Former Board Member, Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Clarence C. Crawford, 
Former Board Member, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
Authority; Lynn Bowersox, Senior Vice President, Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Jennifer Ellison, Board 
Corporate Secretary, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
Authority; Patricia Y. Lee, General Counsel, Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. (The witnesses declined to 
attend in response to the minority's request, and the hearing 
was adjourned.)
    Hearing on ``Reaching Hard-to-Count Communities in the 2020 
Census'' (January 9, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Kevin Allis, Chief 
Executive Officer, National Congress of American Indians; Ms. 
Vanita Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer, The 
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Mr. Darrell 
Moore, Executive Director, Center for South Georgia Regional 
Impact, Valdosta State University; Mr. Marc Morial, President 
and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League; Mr. Arturo 
Vargas, Chief Executive Officer, NALEO Educational Fund; Mr. 
John Yang, President and Executive Director, Asian Americans 
Advancing Justice.
    Hearing on ``Facial Recognition Technology (Part III): 
Ensuring Commercial Transparency & Accuracy'' (January 15, 
2020). Witnesses: Ms. Brenda Leong, Senior Counsel and Director 
of AI and Ethics, Future of Privacy Forum; Dr. Charles Romine, 
Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute 
of Standards and Technology; Ms. Meredith Whittaker, Co-Founder 
and Co-Director, AI Now Institute, New York University; Mr. 
Daniel Castro, Vice President and Director of Center for Data 
Innovation, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; 
Mr. Jake Parker, Senior Director of Government Relations, 
Security Industry Association.
    Hearing on ``75 Years After the Holocaust: The Ongoing 
Battle Against Hate'' (January 29, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Nat 
Shaffir, Holocaust Survivor; Mr. Brad Orsini, Senior National 
Security Advisor, Secure Community Network, Former Director of 
Community Security, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh; 
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum; Mr. Jonathan Greenblatt, Chief Executive Officer, Anti-
Defamation League; Ms. Hilary O. Shelton, Director, Washington 
Bureau & Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Mr. 
Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Former Director General, 
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ``Hearing with Census 
Bureau Director, Dr. Steven Dillingham'' (February 12, 2020). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Dr. Steven Dillingham, Director, 
United States Census Bureau; Mr. Nick Marinos, Director, 
Information Technology and Cybersecurity, Government 
Accountability Office; Mr. J. Christopher Mihm, Managing 
Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. Albert E. Fontenot, Associate Director of the Decennial 
Census Programs, United States Census Bureau.
    Hearing on ``Voter Suppression in Minority Communities: 
Learning from the Past to Protect Our Future'' (February 26, 
2020). Witnesses: Ms. Diane Nash, Civil Rights Activist, 
Founding Member, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; 
Reverend Doctor William J. Barber II, President, Repairers of 
the Breach and Co-Chair, Poor People's Campaign: A National 
Call for Moral Revival; Mr. Timothy L. Jenkins, Board Member, 
Teaching for Change Board Member, Civil Rights Movement 
Archive, Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee; Ms. Marcia 
Johnson-Blanco, Co-Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers' 
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
    Hearing on ``The Administration's Religious Liberty Assault 
on LGBTQ Rights'' (February 27, 2020). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Sean Patrick Maloney, Member of Congress, NY-18; The Honorable 
Mark Takano, Member of Congress, CA-41; The Honorable Joseph P. 
Kennedy, Member of Congress, MA-04; The Honorable Mike Kelly, 
Member of Congress, PA-16; Ms. Sarah Warbelow, Legal Director, 
Human Rights Campaign; Reverend Stan J. Sloan, Chief Executive 
Officer, Family Equality Council; Mr. Ernesto Olivares, San 
Antonio, Texas; Mr. Evan Minton, Livermore, California; Mr. 
Hiram Sasser, Executive General Counsel, First Liberty 
Institute.
    Hearing on ``Coronavirus Preparedness and Response'' (March 
11-12, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 
Institutes of Health; Dr. Robert Redfield, Director, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Robert Kadlec, 
Assistant Secretary, Preparedness and Response, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Dr. Terry M. Rauch, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Readiness Policy and 
Oversight, Department of Defense; Mr. Chris Currie, Director, 
Emergency Management and National Preparedness, Government 
Accountability Office.
    Hearing on ``No Worker Left Behind: Supporting Essential 
Workers'' (June 10, 2020). Witnesses: Ms. Eneida Becote, Wife 
of Edward Becote, Essential Worker who died from coronavirus; 
Ms. Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director, National Nurses 
United, California Nurses Association, & National Nurses 
Organizing Committee; Mr. John Costa, International President, 
Amalgamated Transit Union; Mr. Clint Odom, Senior Vice 
President for Policy and Advocacy Executive Director, National 
Urban League, Washington Bureau; Mr. Anthony ``Marc'' Perrone, 
International President, United Food & Commercial Workers 
International Union; Mr. Avik S.A. Roy, President, Foundation 
for Research on Equal Opportunity.
    Hearing on ``U.S. Cybersecurity Preparedness and H.R. 7331, 
the National Cyber Director Act'' (July 15, 2020). Witnesses: 
The Honorable James R. Langevin, Commissioner, U.S. Cyberspace 
Solarium Commission, Member of Congress, RI-02; The Honorable 
Mike Gallagher, Co-Chair, U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, 
Member of Congress, WI-08; The Honorable Michael J. Rogers, 
David Abshire Chair, Center for the Study of the Presidency & 
Congress, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence (2011-2015); Mr. J. Michael Daniel, President and 
Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Threat Alliance, White House 
Cybersecurity Coordinator (2012-2017); Mr. Amit Yoran, Chairman 
and Chief Executive Officer, Tenable, Founding Director, U.S. 
Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) (2003-2004); Ms. 
Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Adviser, Homeland Security, 
International Security Program, Center for Strategic & 
International Studies, Commissioner, U.S. Cyberspace Solarium 
Commission; Mr. Jamil N. Jaffer, Founder & Executive Director, 
National Security Institute, George Mason University.
    Hearing on ``F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Ensuring Safety and 
Accountability in the Government's Trillion Dollar Investment'' 
(July 22, 2020). Witnesses: Lieutenant General Eric T. Fick, 
Program Executive Officer, F-35 Joint Program Office, 
Department of Defense; Ms. Theresa Hull, Assistant Inspector 
General, U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable Ellen Lord, 
Under Secretary for Acquisitions and Sustainment, Department of 
Defense; Ms. Diana Maurer, Director, Government Accountability 
Office, Defense Capabilities and Management; Mr. Greg Ulmer, 
Vice President and General Manager, F-35 Lightning II Program, 
Lockheed Martin Corporation.
    Hearing on ``Counting Every Person: Safeguarding the 2020 
Census Against the Trump Administration's Unconstitutional 
Attacks'' (July 29, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Vincent Barabba, 
Former Director, Census Bureau; Dr. Steven Dillingham, 
Director, Census Bureau; Mr. John Eastman, Professor, Henry 
Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service Director, 
Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Dale E. Fowler School 
of Law, on behalf of Chapman University, Senior Fellow, 
Claremont Institute; Mr. Robert M. Groves, Former Director, 
Census Bureau (2009-2012); Mr. Kenneth Prewitt, Former 
Director, Census Bureau (1998-2001); Mr. John H. Thompson, 
Former Director, Census Bureau (2013-2017).
    Hearing on ``The Devasting Health Impacts of Climate 
Change'' (August 5, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. Drew Shindell, 
Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Duke 
University; Dr. Michael Greenstone, Milton Freidman 
Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and 
the Harris School, Department of Economics, University of 
Chicago; Dr. Neeta Thakur, Medical Director, Zuckerberg San 
Francisco General Hospital Chest Clinic, University of 
California, San Francisco; Dr. Renee N. Salas, Assistant 
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mr. 
Michael Shellenberger, President and Founder, Environmental 
Progress.
    Hearing on ``Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail, 
Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots'' (August 24, 2020). Witnesses: 
Mr. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, United States Postal 
Service; The Honorable Robert Duncan, Chairman, United States 
Postal Service Board of Governors.
    Hearing on ``Providing the Census Bureau with the Time to 
Produce a Complete and Accurate Census'' (September 10, 2020). 
Witnesses: Mr. J. Christopher Mihm, Managing Director, 
Strategic Issues Team, Government Accountability Office; Mr. 
John H. Thompson, Former Director, Census Bureau (2013-2017); 
Mr. Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community; 
Ms. Stacey Carless, Executive Director, NC Counts Coalition; 
Mr. Hans A. von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage 
Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Unsustainable Drug Prices: Testimony from the 
CEOs (Part I)'' (September 30, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Mark 
Alles, Former Chief Executive Officer, Celgene Corporation; Dr. 
Giovanni Caforio, Chief Executive Officer, Bristol Meyers 
Squibb; Mr. Kare Schultz, Chief Executive Officer, Teva 
Pharmaceuticals.
    Hearing on ``Unsustainable Drug Prices: Testimony from the 
CEOs (Part II)'' (October 1, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Robert 
Bradway, Chief Executive Officer, Amgen, Inc.; Mr. Mark 
Trudeau, Chief Executive Officer, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals; 
Mr. Thomas Kendris, U.S. Country President, Novartis AG.
    Hearing on ``Ensuring the 2020 Census Count is Complete and 
Accurate'' (December 3, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. J. Christopher 
Mihm, Managing Director of the Strategic Issues Team, 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Joseph Salvo, Chief 
Demographer, Population Division, Department of City Planning, 
New York City; Mr. Jeff Landry, Attorney General, Louisiana; 
Mr. Robert Santos, Vice President and Chief Methodologist, 
Urban Institute, and President-Elect, American Statistical 
Association.
    Hearing on ``The Role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler 
Family in the Opioid Epidemic'' (December 17, 2020). Witnesses: 
David Sackler, Former Member of the Board of Directors, Purdue 
Pharma L.P.; Dr. Kathe Sackler, Former Vice President and 
Member of the Board of Directors, Purdue Pharma L.P.; Craig 
Landau, President and CEO, Purdue Pharma L.P.

                  B. Subcommittee on National Security

    Hearing on ``Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction's 2019 High-Risk List'' (April 3, 2019). 
Witness: The Honorable John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General 
for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
    Hearing on ``Veteran and Active-Duty Military Suicides'' 
(May 8, 2019). Witnesses: Captain (Dr.) Mike Colston, Director, 
Mental Health Programs, Department of Defense; Dr. Karin Orvis, 
Director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office, Department of 
Defense; Dr. Richard Stone, Executive in Charge, Veterans 
Health Administration, Department of Veteran Affairs; Dr. Keita 
Franklin, National Director for Suicide Prevention, Office of 
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Department of Veterans 
Affairs; Ms. Terri Tanielian, Senior Behavioral Scientist, 
Department of Veterans Affairs.
    Hearing on ``Securing U.S. Election Infrastructure and 
Protecting Political Discourse'' (May 22, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Christopher Krebs, Director, Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security; Mr. Adam Hickey, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, 
National Security Division, Department of Justice; The 
Honorable Christy McCormick, Chairwoman, Election Assistance 
Commission; The Honorable Ellen L. Weintraub Commissioner 
Federal Election Commission; The Honorable Bill Galvin, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth, State of Massachusetts; Mr. 
Richard Salgado, Director of Law Enforcement & Information 
Security, Google; Mr. Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity 
Policy, Facebook; Mr. Kevin Kane, Public Policy Manager, 
Twitter.
    Hearing on ``U.S. Biodefense, Preparedness, and 
Implications of Antimicrobial Resistance for National 
Security'' (June 26, 2019). Witnesses: Dr. Helen Boucher, 
Director, Tufts Center for Integrated Management of 
Antimicrobial Resistance, Tufts Medical Center; Mr. Chris 
Currie, Director, Emergency Management, Disaster Recovery and 
Department of Homeland Security Management Issues, Homeland 
Security and Justice Team, Government Accountability Office; 
Dr. Cham Dallas, University Professor and Director, Institute 
for Disaster Management, University of Michigan; Dr. Asha 
George, Executive Director, Blue Ribbon Study Panel on 
Biodefense.
    Hearing on ``Securing the Nation's Internet Architecture'' 
(September 10, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Jeanette Manfra, Assistant 
Director for Cybersecurity, Department of Homeland Security, 
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency; Ms. Diane Rinaldo, 
Acting Assistant Secretary/Administrator, Department of 
Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration; Mr. B. Edwin Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of Defense for Cyber Policy, Department of Defense, Office of 
the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
    Hearing on ``Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part 
III): Addressing the Transnational Terrorist Threat'' 
(September 20, 2019). Witnesses: Dr. Kathleen Belew, Assistant 
Professor of U.S. History and the College, The University of 
Chicago; Dr. Joshua Geltzer, Director, Institute for 
Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown Law; Ms. 
Katrina Mulligan, Managing Director for National Security and 
International Policy, Center for American Progress; Ms. Candace 
Owens, Founder, Blexit, Host, Candace Owens Show.
    Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's Syria Policy: 
Perspectives from the Field'' (October 23, 2019). Witnesses: 
Mr. Ilham Ahmed, Accompanied by Translator, Co-President, 
Syrian Democratic Council; Mr. John Glaser, Director of Foreign 
Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Mr. Martin Palmer, Former 
Special Forces Officer, 5th Special Forces Group; Mr. Bernice 
Romero, Senior Director, International Humanitarian Response, 
Save the Children; Ms. Emerita Torres, Director of Programs and 
Research, Soufan Center.
    Hearing on ``The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: 
Bringing Our Nation's Heroes Home'' (November 19, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Kelly McKeague, Director, Defense POW/MIA 
Accounting Agency; Mr. Mark Noah, Chief Executive Officer, 
History Flight; Mr. Vincent ``B.J.'' Lawrence, Washington 
Office Executive Director, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 
United States; Ms. Jo Anne Shirley, Former Chair, National 
League of POW/MIA Families.
    Hearing on ``U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and 
Challenges in Africa'' (December 17, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Judd 
Devermont, Director, Africa Program, Center for Strategic & 
International Studies; Mr. Adotei Akwei, Deputy Director for 
Advocacy and Government Relations, Amnesty International; Ms. 
Alexis Arieff, Specialist in African Affairs, Congressional 
Research Service; Mr. Joshua Meservey, Senior Policy Analyst, 
Africa and the Middle East, The Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Examining the Trump Administration's 
Afghanistan Strategy'' (January 28, 2020). Witness: The 
Honorable John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General, Afghanistan 
Reconstruction.
    Hearing on ``Karshi-Khanabad: Hazardous Exposures and 
Effects on U.S. Servicemembers'' (February 27, 2020). 
Witnesses: Ms. Kim E. Brooks, Spouse of Lieutenant Colonel 
Timothy Brooks, U.S. Army; Mr. Scott W. Welsch, K2 Veteran, 
Retired Chief Warrant Officer 2, U.S. Army; Mr. Paul B. Widener 
Jr. K2 Veteran, Retired Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force.
    Hearing on ``Empowering Women and Girls and Promoting 
International Security'' (July 23, 2020). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Kelley Curie, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's 
Issues, Department of State; The Honorable Michelle Bekkering, 
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, 
and Environment, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms. 
Stephanie Hammond, Acting Deputy Assistant of Defense for 
Stability and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of Defense; Ms. 
Cameron Quinn, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 
Department of Homeland Security.
    Hearing on ``Examining the Trump Administration's 
Afghanistan Strategy, Part 2'' (September 22, 2020). Witnesses: 
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Special Representative for 
Afghanistan Reconciliation, Department of State; Mr. David F. 
Helvey, Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, Department of Defense.
    Hearing on ``Karshi-Khanabad: Honoring the Heroes of Camp 
Stronghold Freedom'' (November 18, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. 
Patricia R. Hastings, Chief Consultant, Post Deployment Health 
Services, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. David J. Smith, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Readiness, 
Policy and Oversight, Department of Defense.

                C. Subcommittee on Government Operations

    Hearing on ``Effects of Vacancies at the Merit Systems 
Protection Board'' (February 28, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Valerie 
Brannon, Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service; 
Mr. Thomas Devine, Legal Director, Government Accountability 
Project; Mr. John Palguta, Former Director of Policy and 
Evaluation, Merit Systems Protection Board; Mr. Mark Robbins, 
Acting Chairman, Merit Systems Protection Board; Mr. John York, 
Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act (H.R. 
1076)'' (March 13, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Ron Johnson, 
Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs; The Honorable Cory A. Booker, Senator, New Jersey; The 
Honorable Doug Collins, Ranking Member, Committee on the 
Judiciary, U.S. House Representatives; Ms. Holly Harris, 
Executive Director, Justice Action Network; Ms. Teresa Hodge, 
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, R3 Score Technologies, 
Inc. (CRCL was lead subcommittee).
    Hearing on ``Government Shutdowns: Contract Killers'' (May 
6, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Roger A. Krone, Chief Executive 
Officer, Leidos; Mr. Jaime Contreras, Vice President, 32BJ 
SEIU; Ms. Alba M. Aleman, Chief Executive Officer, Citizant, 
Inc.; Mr. Wesley Ford, President, TKI Coffee; Mr. Ed Grabowski, 
President, Local 2061, International Association of Machinists 
and Aerospace Workers; Mr. David Berteau, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Professional Services Council; Mr. Michael 
Niggel, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Concepts & 
Technologies; Mr. Mark Hall, Executive Vice President, 
ServiceSource; Mr. Anthony Crescenzo, Chief Executive Officer, 
IntelliDyne, LLC; Ms. Tamela Worthen, Security Guard, 
Smithsonian Institution.
    Hearing on ``The Administration's War on a Merit Based 
Civil Service'' (May 21, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Margaret Weichart, Deputy Director of Management, Office of 
Management and Budget, Acting Director, Office of Personnel 
Management; Ms. Triana McNeil, Acting Director of Strategic 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; Mr. Norbert E. Vint, 
Acting Inspector General, Office of Personnel Management Office 
of Inspector General; Mr. J. David Cox, Sr., National 
President, American Federation of Government Employees; Mr. Ken 
Thomas, National President, National Active and Retired Federal 
Employees; Ms. Linda M. Springer, Former Director, Office of 
Personnel Management.
    Hearing on ``Examining Federal Labor-Management Relations'' 
(June 4, 2019). Witness: The Honorable Colleen Duffy Kiko, 
Chairman, Federal Labor Relations Authority.
    Hearing on ``Ensuring Quality Health Care for Our 
Veterans'' (June 20, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Tammy Czarnecki, 
Assistant Deputy Undersecretary for Health for Administrative 
Operations, Veterans Health Administration, Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Mr. Michael Heimall, Director, Veteran 
Affairs Medical Center (Washington, DC); The Honorable Michael 
Missal, Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Veterans Affairs.
    Hearing on ``FITARA 8.0'' (June 26, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. 
Jason Gray, Chief Information Officer, Department of Education; 
Ms. Carol Harris, Director, IT Management Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Ms. Suzette Kent, Federal Chief 
Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. Eric 
Olson, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of the 
Treasury; Mr. Gary Washington, Chief Information Officer, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture.
    Hearing on ``Document Production Status Update: OPM, FBI, 
and GSA'' (June 27, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Stephen Billy, Deputy 
Chief of Staff, Office of Personnel Management; Mr. Robert 
Borden, Chief of Staff, General Services Administration; Ms. 
Jill Tyson, Assistant Director, Office of Congressional 
Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
    Hearing on ``To the Cloud! The Cloudy Role of FedRAMP in IT 
Modernization'' (July 17, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Anil Cheriyan, 
Director, Technology Transformation Services, General Services 
Administration; Mr. Jack Wilmer, Deputy Chief Information 
Officer for Cybersecurity, Department of Defense; Mr. Joseph 
Klimavicz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Justice; Mr. Jose Arrieta, 
Chief Information Officer, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Mr. Johnathan Berroya, Senior Vice President and 
General Counsel, Internet Association; Mr. Douglas Barbin, 
Principal, Schellman & Company, LLC; Mr. Will Ackerly, Chief 
Technology Officer, Virtu; Ms. Lynn Martin, Vice President of 
Government, Education, and Healthcare, VMware.
    Hearing on ``Restoring the Partnership: The Future of 
Federalism in America'' (July 23, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Rob Bishop, Member of Congress, UT-01; Mr. Matthew 
Chase, Executive Director, National Association of Counties; 
Ms. Teresa Gerton, Executive Director, National Academy of 
Public Administration; Dr. Carl W. Stenberg III, Former Staff 
Member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental 
Relations.
    Hearing on ``Overseeing the Overseers: Council of the 
Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency at 10 Years'' 
(September 18, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Michael A. Horowitz, 
Inspector General, Department of Justice, Chairman, Council of 
the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency; Ms. Kathy 
A. Buller, Inspector General, Peace Corps, Executive Director, 
Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, 
Legislation Committee; Mr. Scott Dahl, Inspector General, 
Department of Labor, Chairman, Council of the Inspectors 
General on Integrity and Efficiency.
    Hearing on ``NextGen Feds: Recruiting the Next Generation 
of Public Servants'' (September 25, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney, Member of Congress, NY-12, U.S. 
House of Representatives; Ms. Margot Conrad, Director, Federal 
Workforce Programs, Partnership for Public Service; Mr. Robert 
Goldenkoff, Director of Strategic Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Ms. Rachel Greszler, Research Fellow, 
The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Anthony Reardon, National 
President, National Treasury Employees Union.
    Hearing on ``Metro: Report Card for America's Subway'' 
(October 22, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Paul Wiedefeld, General 
Manager and Chief Executive Officer, Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority; Mr. Paul Smedberg, Chair, Board of 
Directors, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Mr. 
Geoffrey Cherrington, Inspector General, Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Mr. David L. Mayer, Chief 
Executive Officer, Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.
    Hearing on ``FITARA 9.0'' (December 11, 2019). Witnesses: 
Ms. Elizabeth Cappello, Acting Chief Information Officer, 
Department of Homeland Security; Ms. Carol Harris, Director, IT 
Management Issues, Government Accountability Office; Ms. Renee 
Wynn, Chief Information Officer, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.
    Hearing on ``Protecting Those Who Blow the Whistle on 
Government Wrongdoing'' (January 28, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. 
David K. Colapinto, Founder and General Counsel, National 
Whistleblower Center; The Honorable Glenn A. Fine, Principal 
Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense; Ms. Elizabeth 
Hempowicz, Director of Public Policy, Project on Government 
Oversight; The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector 
General, Department of Justice; Mr. Paul Rosenzweig, Resident 
Senior Fellow, National Security and Cybersecurity, R Street 
Institute.
    Hearing on ``A Threat to America's Children: The Trump 
Administration's Proposed Changes to the Poverty Line 
Calculation'' (February 5, 2020). Witnesses: Representative 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Member of Congress, NY-14; 
Representative Carol Miller, Member of Congress, WV-03; Sister 
Simone Campbell, Executive Director, Network Lobby; Mr. Indi 
Dutta Gupta, Co-Executive Director, Center on Poverty, 
Georgetown Law; Ms. Amy Jo Hutchison, Organizer, Healthy Kids 
and Families Coalition, West Virginia; Mr. Rob Smith, Advisory 
Board Member, Legacy Republican Alliance.
    Hearing on ``Making IT a Priority for the Federal 
Government'' (March 4, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Anil Cheriyan, 
Director, Technology Transformation Services, General Services 
Administration; Ms. Carol C. Harris, Director, Information 
Technology and Cybersecurity, Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. Bill Zielinski, Assistant Commissioner, Office of 
Information Technology Category, General Services 
Administration.
    Hearing on ``Frontline Feds: Serving the Public During a 
Pandemic'' (June 25, 2020). Witnesses: The Honorable Jim 
DeMint, Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute; Ms. 
Lorraine Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer, 
National Safety Council; Mr. J. Christopher Mihm, Managing 
Director for Strategic Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; Ms. Jacqueline Simon, National Policy Director, 
American Federation of Government Employees.
    Hearing on ``Federal IT Modernization: How the Coronavirus 
Exposed Outdated Systems'' (July 20, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. 
Gordon Bitko, Senior Vice President of Policy, Information 
Technology Industry Council; Mr. Matthew Cornelius, Executive 
Director, Alliance for Digital Innovation; Mr. Steve O'Keeffe, 
Founder, MeriTalk; Ms. Hana Shank, Director of Strategic, 
Public Interest Technology, New America.
    Hybrid Hearing on ``FITARA 10.0'' (August 3, 2020). 
Witnesses: Ms. Clare Martorana, Chief Information Officer, 
Office of Personnel Management; Mr. Jason Gray, Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Education; Ms. Maria A. 
Roat, Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget; Ms. Carol Harris, Director, IT 
Management Issues, Government Accountability Office; Mr. David 
Powner, Director of Strategic Engagement and Partnerships, The 
MITRE Corporation; Ms. LaVerne Council, Chief Executive 
Officer, Emerald One, LLC.; Mr. Richard Spires, Principal, 
Richard A. Spires Consulting.
    Hearing on ``Postal Update'' (September 14, 2020). 
Witnesses: Mr. S. David Fineman, Former Chairman, United States 
Postal Service Board of Governors; Mr. Richard W. Painter, S. 
Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of 
Minnesota Law School, Former Chief White House Ethics Lawyer 
and Associate Counsel to the President (2005-2007); Ms. Lisa 
Graves, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, True Northern 
Research; Ms. Ann M. Ravel, Former Federal Election Commission 
Chair and California Fair Political Practices Chair, Adjunct 
Professor at UC Berkeley Law; Mr. Michael Plunkett, President 
and Chief Executive Officer, Association for Postal Commerce 
(Postcom).
    Hearing on ``IRS in the Pandemic'' (October 7, 2020). 
Witnesses: Ms. Erin M. Collins, National Taxpayer Advocate, 
Taxpayer Advocate Service; Mr. Vijay A. D'Souza, Director, 
Information Technology and Cybersecurity, Government 
Accountability Office; Mr. Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service.
    Hearing on ``The Elements of Presidential Transitions'' 
(December 10, 2020). Witnesses: Martha Joynt Kumar, Professor 
Emerita, Department of Political Science, Towson University; 
Max Stier, President and Chief Executive Officer, Partnership 
for Public Service; Lisa Brown, Vice President and General 
Counsel, Georgetown University.

            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy

    Hearing on ``Examining the Public Health Risks of 
Carcinogens in Consumer Products'' (March 12, 2019). Witnesses: 
Mr. Scott Faber, Vice President of Government Affairs, 
Environmental Working Group; Dr. Anne McTiernan, Member, Fred 
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Mr. Marvin Salter, Son of 
Deceased Ovarian Cancer Patient.
    Hearing on ``Improving Data Security at Consumer Reporting 
Agencies'' (March 26, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Andrew Smith, 
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 
Commission; Mr. Michael Clements, Director, Financial Markets 
and Community Investment, Government Accountability Office; Mr. 
Mike Litt, Consumer Campaigns Director, U.S. PIRG; Ms. Jennifer 
Huddleston, Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason 
University.
    Hearing on ``CFPB's Role in Empowering Predatory Lenders: 
Examining the Proposed Repeal of the Payday Lending Rule'' (May 
16, 2019). Witness: Mr. Thomas Pahl, Policy Associate Director 
for Research, Markets & Regulations, Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau.
    Hearing on ``Examining For-Profit College Oversight and 
Student Debt'' (May 22, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Lindsey Burke, 
Director, Center for Education Policy, The Heritage Foundation; 
Mr. David Halperin, Attorney & Counselor; Mr. Robert J. 
Infusino, Former Student; Ms. Diane Auer Jones, Principal 
Deputy Under Secretary, Department of Education; Mr. 
Christopher Madaio, Assistant Attorney General, Consumer 
Protection Division, Maryland Office of the Attorney General.
    Hearing on ``Examining JUUL's Role in the Youth Nicotine 
Epidemic: Part I'' (July 24, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Richard Durbin, United States Senator from Illinois; Ms. 
Meredith Berkman, Co-Founder, Parents Against Vaping E-
cigarettes; Dr. Robert Jackler, Professor, Stanford University; 
Dr. Raymond Niaura, College of Global Public Health, New York 
University; Ms. Rae O'Leary, Public Health Analyst, Missouri 
Breaks Industries Research; Dr. Johnathan Winickoff, Member, 
American Academy of Pediatrics.
    Hearing on ``Examining JUUL's Role in the Youth Nicotine 
Epidemic: Part II'' (July 25, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Ashley 
Gould, Chief Administration Officer, JUUL Labs, Inc.; Mr. James 
Monsees, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, JUUL Labs, Inc.; 
Mr. Matthew L. Myers, President, Tobacco-Free Kids.
    Hearing on ``Don't Vape: Examining the Outbreak of Lung 
Disease and CDC's Urgent Warning Not to Use E Cigarettes'' 
(September 24, 2019). Witnesses: Dr. Ann Schuchat, Principal 
Deputy Secretary, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director, Illinois Department of Public 
Health; Ms. Ruby Johnson, Parent; Ms. Vicki Porter; Dr. Albert 
Rizzo, Chief Medical Officer, American Lung Association.
    Hearing on ``The Federal Response to the Epidemic of E-
Cigarette Use, Especially Among Children, and the Food and Drug 
Administration's Compliance Policy'' (December 4, 2019). 
Witness: Mr. Mitchell Zeller, Director, Center for Tobacco 
Products, On behalf of Food and Drug Administration, Department 
of Health and Human Services.
    Hearing on ``Examining Carcinogens in Talc and the Best 
Methods for Asbestos Detection'' (December 10, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Alex Gorsky, Chief Executive Officer, Johnson & 
Johnson; Dr. William Longo, Scientist, Materials Analytical 
Services, LLC; Dr. Rodney V. Metcalf, Geologist, University of 
Nevada-Las Vegas; Dr. Jacqueline Moline, Physician, Feinstein 
Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health; Mr. David 
Etheridge, Patient.
    Hearing on ``A Threat to America's Children: The Trump 
Administration's Proposed Changes to Broad-Based Categorical 
Eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program'' 
(February 6, 2020). Witnesses: Ms. Lisa Davis, Senior Vice 
President, No Kid Hungry Campaign, Share Our Strength; Mr. Zach 
Pethan, Principal, Jefferson Elementary, Sheboygan Area School 
District; Ms. Diane Sullivan, Advocate, Witnesses to Hunger; 
Ms. Tega Toney, Teacher, Oak Hill High School, Fayette County 
Schools; Mr. Sam Adolphsen, Policy Director, Foundation for 
Government Accountability.

                     E. Subcommittee on Environment

    Hearing on ``Examining PFAS Chemicals and their Risks'' 
(March 6, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Brian K. Fitzpatrick, 
Member of Congress, PA-01; The Honorable Daniel T. Kildee, 
Member of Congress, MI-05; Mr. Dave Ross, Assistant 
Administrator for the Office of Water, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Ms. Maureen Sullivan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Environment, Department of Defense.
    Hearing on ``Climate Change, Part I: The History of a 
Consensus and the Causes of Inaction'' (April 9, 2019). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Tim Wirth, Former Senator from 
Colorado, Vice Chairman and President Emeritus of the United 
Nations Foundation; Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank 
Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow 
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton 
University; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and 
Director, Center for Sustainable Development, School of 
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Mr. 
Nicolas Loris, Deputy Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute 
of Economic Policy Studies, Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in 
Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Climate Change, Part II: The Public Health 
Effects'' (April 30, 2019). Witnesses: Dr. Karen DeSalvo, 
Professor of Medicine and Population Health, Dell Medical 
School, University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Bernard D. 
Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Public 
Health, University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Co-
Director, Center for Climate, Health and the Global 
Environment, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard 
University; Dr. Cheryl L. Holder, Associate Professor, Herbert 
Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University; 
Dr. Caleb Rossiter, Executive Director, CO2 Coalition.
    Hearing on ``Examining America's Nuclear Waste Management, 
Storage, and the Need for Solutions'' (June 7, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Don Hancock, Director and Administrator, Nuclear 
Waste Safety Program, Southwest Research and Information 
Center; Mr. Tom Isaacs, Former Lead Advisor, Blue Ribbon 
Commission on America's Nuclear Future; The Honorable Darrell 
E. Issa, Former Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform; Mr. Scott Morris, Region IV Administrator, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission; Mr. Daniel Stetson, Vice Chairman, SONGS 
Community Engagement Panel.
    Hearing on ``Recovery, Resiliency, and Readiness: 
Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change 
(Climate Change, Part III)'' (June 25, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. 
Stephen Costello, Chief Recovery Officer, City of Houston; Mr. 
Christopher Currie, Director, Emergency Management, Disaster 
Recovery and Department of Homeland Security Management Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Dr. Judith Curry, President, 
Climate Forecast Applications Network; Mr. Mark Ghilarducci, 
Director, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services; 
Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, 
Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State 
University; Mr. Omar Marrero, Executive Director, Central 
Office of Recovery and Reconstruction of Puerto Rico; Ms. 
Adrienne Williams-Octablien, Director, Office of Disaster 
Recovery, Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority; Mr. James 
Witt, Former Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    Hearing on ``The Devil They Knew: PFAS Contamination and 
the Need for Corporate Accountability'' (July 24, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Bucky Bailey, Affected Resident and Activist, 
Parkersburg, West Virginia; Ms. Emily Donovan, Co-Founder, 
Clean Cape Fear; Ms. Sandy Wynn-Stelt, Affected Resident and 
Activist, Belmont, Michigan; Dr. Jamie C. DeWitt, Associate 
Professor, East Carolina University; Mr. Glenn Evers, 
President, IS2 Consulting; Ms. Jane C. Luxton, Partner, Lewis 
Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP; Ms. Catherine R. McCabe, 
Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental 
Protection; Mr. Robert R. Scott, Commissioner, New Hampshire 
Department of Environmental Services; Mr. Steve Sliver, 
Executive Director, Michigan PFAS Action Response Team, 
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.
    Hearing on ``Courage Under Fire: Examining Government 
Preparedness and Response to Wildfires in California'' (August 
20, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Brent Berkompas, Director of 
Governmental Affairs, Orange County Professional Firefighters 
Association; Dr. Afif El-Hasan, Pediatrician, California; Mr. 
Robert Fenton, Region IX Administrator, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency; Mr. Mark Ghilarducci, Director, California 
Governor's Office of Emergency Services; Mr. Dan Johnson, 
Southern Region Chief, California Department of Forestry & Fire 
Protection; Mr. Randy Moore, Regional Forester, Pacific 
Southwest Region, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest 
Service; Mr. Max Moritz, Cooperative Extension Wildfire 
Specialist, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; 
Mr. Drew Smith, Battalion Chief, Los Angeles County Fire 
Department.
    Hearing on ``The Devil They Knew: PFAS Contamination and 
the Need for Corporate Accountability, Part II'' (September 10, 
2019). Witnesses: Mr. Robert A. Bilott, Partner, Taft 
Stettinius & Hollister LLP; Ms. Lori Swanson, Former Attorney 
General, State of Minnesota; Ms. Denise R. Rutherford, Senior 
Vice President of Corporate Affairs, The 3M Company; Mr. Paul 
Kirsch, President of Fluoroproducts, The Chemours Company; Mr. 
Daryl Roberts, Chief Operations & Engineering Officer, Dupont 
de Nemours, Inc.; Mr. Matt Hardin, Commonwealth's Attorney, 
Greene County.
    Hearing on ``Environmental Injustice: Exploring Inequities 
in Air and Water Quality in Michigan'' (September 19, 2019). 
Witnesses: Dr. Delores Leonard, Advocate; Ms. Nayyirah Shariff, 
Director, Flint Rising; Dr. Paul Mohai, School of Environment 
and Sustainability, University of Michigan; Mr. Nick Leonard, 
Executive Director, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center; Ms. 
Emma Lockridge, Climate and Environmental Justice Organizer, 
Michigan United.
    Hearing on ``Trump's Wrong Turn on Clean Cars: The Effects 
of Fuel Efficiency Rollbacks on the Climate, Car Companies, and 
California'' (October 29, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Edmund Brown, Jr., Former Governor of California; The Honorable 
Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island; Dr. Antonio 
Bento, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Sol Price 
School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University 
of Southern California; The Honorable Samuel Liccardo, Mayor of 
San Jose, California; Dr. Emily Wimberger, Climate Economist, 
Rhodium Group; Dr. Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive 
Enterprise Institute.
    Hearing on ``Toxic, Forever Chemicals: A Call for Immediate 
Federal Action on PFAS'' (November 19, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. 
Mark Ruffalo, Actor, Producer, and Artist; Mr. Scott Faber, 
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Environmental 
Working Group; Mr. Mark Favors, U.S. Army Veteran, Member, 
Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition; Mr. Tiger Joyce, 
President, American Tort Reform Association.
    Hearing on ``Climate Change, Part IV: Current Economic 
Effects of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction'' (December 
19, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Alfredo Gomez, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment Team, Government Accountability 
Office; Mr. Dave Jones, Senior Director for Environmental Risk, 
The Nature Conservancy; Dr. Michael Greenstone, Milton Friedman 
Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of 
Chicago; The Honorable Stephen Benjamin, Mayor, The City of 
Columbia, South Carolina; Dr. Kevin Dayaratna, Senior 
Statistician and Research Programmer, Center for Data Analysis, 
Institute for Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``A Threat to America's Children: The Trump 
Administration's Proposal to Undermine Protections from Mercury 
Air Toxics Standards'' (February 6, 2020). Witnesses: Reverend 
Mitchell C. Hescox, President/Chief Executive Officer, 
Evangelical Environmental Health Network; Ms. Katie Huffling, 
Executive Director, Alliance for Nurses for Healthy 
Environments; Ms. Heather McTeer Toney, National Field 
Director, Moms Clean Air Force; Ms. Mandy M. Gunasekara, 
Founder, Energy 45, Senior Fellow to Texas Public Policy Life: 
Powered Project.
    Hearing on ``FEMA's Natural Disaster Preparedness and 
Response Efforts During the Coronavirus Pandemic'' (July 24, 
2020). Witness: Mr. Peter T. Gaynor, Administrator, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency.
    Hearing on ``Climate Change, Part IV: Moving Towards a 
Sustainable Future'' (September 24, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. 
Robert C. Orr, Ph.D., Dean, University of Maryland School of 
Public Policy; Dr. Rachel Cleetus, Ph.D., Policy Director, 
Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists; Mr. 
Christopher Castro, Senior Advisor to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, 
Director of Sustainability & Resilience, City of Orlando; Mr. 
Reed Schuler, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, 
Governor Jay Inslee; Dr. Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D., Principal 
Statistician, Data Scientist, and Research Fellow, The Heritage 
Foundation.

          F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

    Hearing on ``The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act (H.R. 
1076)'' (March 13, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Ron Johnson, 
Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs; The Honorable Cory A. Booker, Senator, New Jersey; The 
Honorable Doug Collins, Ranking Member, Committee on the 
Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives; Ms. Holly Harris, 
Executive Director, Justice Action Network; Ms. Teresa Hodge, 
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, R3 Score Technologies, 
Inc.
    Hearing on ``Failure of Administration to Comply with 
Subpoenas on Child Separation Policy'' (April 9, 2019). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Christine Ciccone, Assistant Secretary 
for the Office of Legislative Affairs, Department of Homeland 
Security; The Honorable Stephen E. Boyd, Assistant Attorney 
General for the Office of Legislative Affairs, Department of 
Justice; The Honorable Matthew Bassett, Assistant Secretary for 
Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services.
    Hearing on ``Protecting the Right to Vote: Best and Worst 
Practices'' (May 1, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Myrna Perez, Deputy 
Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice; Ms. 
Leigh Chapman, Director, Voting Rights Program, The Leadership 
Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Mr. Dale Ho, Director, 
Voting Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union; Ms. 
Kaylan Phillips, Litigation Counsel, Public Interest Legal 
Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Confronting White Supremacy (Part I): The 
Consequences of Inaction'' (May 15, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Susan 
Bro, Co-Founder President/Board Chair, Heather Heyer 
Foundation; Mr. George Salim, Senior Vice President of 
Programs, Anti-Defamation League; Mr. Omar Ricci, Chairman, 
Islamic Center of Southern California; Mr. Michael German, 
Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Mr. Roy Austin, Partner, 
Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP; Mr. Robby Soave, Associate 
Editor at Reason Magazine, D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. 
Commission on Civil Rights.
    Hearing on ``Getting Counted: The Importance of the Census 
to State and Local Communities'' (May 28, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. 
Gail Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College; Ms. Julie 
Menin, Census Director, City of New York; Mr. Joseph Salvo, 
Chief Demographer, Population Division, New York City 
Department of City Planning; Ms. Melva Miller, Executive Vice 
President, Association for a Better New York; Mr. Steven Choi, 
Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition; Mr. Marc 
Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban 
League; Ms. Greta Byrum, Co-Director, New School Digital Equity 
Laboratory; Ms. Elizabeth OuYang, Civil Rights Attorney, 
Educator, and Community Advocate; Mr. Jorge Luis Vasquez, Jr., 
Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDF; Ms. Lurie Favors, Esq., 
General Counsel, Center for Law & Social Justice; Ms. Kazi 
Fouzia, Desis Rising Up and Moving; Mr. Carlos Menchaca, 
Council Member, New York City Council.
    Hearing on ``Confronting White Supremacy (Part II): 
Adequacy of the Federal Response'' (June 4, 2019). Witnesses: 
Mr. Michael McGarrity, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Mr. Calvin Shivers, 
Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation; Ms. Elizabeth Neumann, 
Assistant Secretary, Threat Prevention and Security Policy, 
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Tony McAleer, Co-Founder, 
Life After Hate; Ms. Lecia Brooks, Outreach Director, Southern 
Poverty Law Center; Ms. Brette Steele, Director of Prevention 
and National Security, McCain Institute for International 
Leadership, Arizona State University; Mr. Todd Bensman, Former 
Manager, Counterterrorism Unit, Intelligence and 
Counterterrorism Division, Texas Department of Public Safety.
    Hearing on ``Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the 
Border'' (July 10, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Yazmin Juarez, Asylum 
Seeker and Mother of 19-month-old Mariee, who died after 
detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Mr. Michael 
Breen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Human Rights 
First; Ms. Clara Long, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights 
Watch; Ms. Hope Frye, Executive Director, Project Lifeline; Dr. 
Carlos A. Gutierrez, Pediatrician, El Paso's Children's 
Hospital; Mr. Ronald D. Vitiello, Former Chief, U.S. Border 
Patrol, Former Acting Director, Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement.
    Hearing on ``Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the 
Damage and Preparing to Count `We the People' in 2020'' (July 
24, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Steven Dillingham, Ph.D., Director, 
U.S. Census Bureau; Mr. Robert Goldenkoff, Director of 
Strategic Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. 
Nicholas Marinos, Director of Information Technology and 
Cybersecurity, Government Accountability Office.
    Hearing on ``The Administration's Apparent Revocation of 
Medical Deferred Action for Critically Ill Children'' 
(September 11, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Maria Isabel Bueso, 
Concord, CA; Mr. Johnathan Sanchez, Boston, Massachusetts; Ms. 
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, 
Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Penn State Law School; 
Dr. Fiona S. Danaher, M.D., MPH, Pediatrician, MGH Chelsea 
Pediatrics and MGH Child Protection Program, Co-Chair, MGH 
Immigrant Health Coalition, Massachusetts General Hospital for 
Children, Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Mr. 
Anthony Marino, Director, Immigration Legal Services, on behalf 
of Irish International Immigrant Center; Mr. Thomas Homan, 
Former Director, Immigration and Customers Enforcement; Mr. 
Timothy Robbins, Acting Executive Associate Director, 
Enforcement and Removal Operations, Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Daniel 
Renaud, Associate Director, Field Operations Directorate, 
Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland 
Security.
    Hearing on ``Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part 
III): Addressing the Transnational Terrorist Threat'' 
(September 20, 2019). Witnesses: Dr. Kathleen Belew, Assistant 
Professor of U.S. History and the College, The University of 
Chicago; Dr. Joshua Geltzer, Director, Institute for 
Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown Law; Ms. 
Katrina Mulligan, Managing Director for National Security and 
International Policy, Center for American Progress; Ms. Candace 
Owens, Founder, Blexit, Host, Candace Owens Show.
    Hearing on ``Examining the Oil Industry's Effort to 
Suppress the Truth about Climate Change'' (October 23, 2019). 
Witnesses: Dr. Mustafa Ali, Vice President, Environmental 
Justice Climate and Community Revitalization, National Wildlife 
Federation; Dr. Ed Garvey, Former Exxon Scientist; Dr. Martin 
Hoffert, Former Exxon Consultant, Professor Emeritus, Physics, 
New York University; Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor, History of 
Science, Affiliated Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, 
Harvard University; Ms. Sharon Eubanks, Esq., Of Counsel, 
Henderson Law Firm, PLLC; Ms. Mandy Gunasekara, Founder, Energy 
45, Senior Fellow, Life: Powered Project.
    Hearing on ``The Administration's Decision to Deport 
Critically Ill Children and Their Families'' (October 30, 
2019). Witnesses: Mr. Matthew Albence, Acting Director, 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland 
Security; Mr. Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
    Hearing on ``Righting the Ship: The Coast Guard Must 
Improve its Processes for Addressing Harassment, Bullying, and 
Retaliation'' (December 11, 2019). Witnesses: Vice Admiral 
Michael McAllister, Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, 
United States Coast Guard; Lieutenant Commander Kimberly Young-
McLear, Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff, United States 
Coast Guard; Mr. Jackson Eaton, Deputy Assistant Inspector 
General, United States Department of Homeland Security.
    Hearing on ``Ending Global Religious Persecution'' (January 
28, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Rushan Abbas, Executive Director, 
Campaign for Uyghurs; Ms. Rachel Deitch on behalf of Rafida 
Bonya Ahmed, Policy Manager, The American Humanist Association; 
Mr. Jeremy Barker, Senior Program Officer and Director for 
Middle East Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute; Mr. 
Francisco Bencosme, Asia Pacific Advocacy Manager, Amnesty 
International.
    Hearing on ``A Threat to America's Children: The Trump 
Administration's Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability'' 
(February 5, 2020). Witnesses: Ms. Ateira Griffin, Chief 
Executive Officer and Founder, BOND, Inc.--Building Our 
Nation's Daughters; Ms. Ellen Lee, Director of Community and 
Economic Development, City of New Orleans; Dr. Megan Sandel, 
Principal Investigator, Children's Healthwatch, M.D., Boston 
Medical Center; Mr. Jorge Andres Soto, Director of Public 
Policy, National Fair Housing Alliance; Mr. Michael Hendrix, 
Director, State and Local Policy, Manhattan Institute.
    Hearing on ``Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part IV): 
White Supremacy in Blue--The Infiltration of Local Police 
Departments'' (September 29, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. Michael 
German, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Ms. Vida B. 
Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Mr. 
Frank Meeink, Author and Activist; Mr. Mark Napier, Sheriff 
Pima County, Arizona; Ms. Heather Taylor, President Ethical 
Society of Police, St. Louis.
    Hearing on ``Pipelines Over People: How FERC Tramples 
Landowner Rights in Natural Gas Projects'' (December 9, 2020). 
Witnesses: Mr. David L. Morenoff, Acting General Counsel, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Mr. Terry Turpin, 
Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission.

            G. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

    Hearing on ``The Unemployment Pandemic: Addressing 
America's Job Crisis'' (June 18, 2020). Witnesses: Ms. Michele 
Evermore, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst, National 
Employment Law Project; Mr. William E. Spriggs, Chief 
Economist, AFL-CIO, Professor, Department of Economics, Howard 
University; Mr. Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of 
Economic Policy, Harvard University; Ms. Rachel Greszler, 
Research Fellow in Economics, Budget and Entitlements, The 
Heritage Foundation.
    Hearing on ``Accountability in Crisis: GAO's 
Recommendations to Improve the Federal Coronavirus Response'' 
(June 26, 2020). Witnesses: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office.
    Hearing on ``The Administration's Efforts to Procure, 
Stockpile, and Distribute Critical Supplies'' (July 2, 2020). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Kevin Fahey, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Department of Defense; Admiral Brett 
P. Giroir M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, Vice 
Director of Logistics, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Supply Chain 
Stabilization Task Force, on behalf of Department of Defense.
    Hearing on ``Former Federal Reserve Chairs on Responding to 
Our Nation's Economic Crisis'' (July 17, 2020). Witnesses: The 
Honorable Ben Bernanke, Distinguished Fellow in Residence, The 
Brookings Institution, Former Chair, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve; The Honorable Janet Yellen, Distinguished 
Fellow in Residence, The Brookings Institution, Former Chair, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
    Hybrid Hearing on ``The Urgent Need for a National Plan to 
Contain the Coronavirus'' (July 31, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. 
Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and 
Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Admiral 
Brett P. Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Robert R. 
Redfield, M.D., Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
    Remote Hearing on ``Challenges to Safely Reopening K-12 
Schools'' (August 6, 2020). Witnesses: The Honorable Arne 
Duncan, Managing Partner, Emerson Collective, Former Secretary 
of Education; Mr. Dan Lips, Fellow, Foundation for Research on 
Equal Opportunity; Dr. Caitlin Rivers, Senior Scholar, Johns 
Hopkins Center for Health Security, Assistant Professor, 
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns 
Hopkins School of Public Health; Mr. Robert W. Runcie, 
Superintendent, Broward County Public Schools; Ms. Angela 
Skillings, Teacher, Hayden Winkelman Unified School District.
    Hybrid Hearing ``With Treasury Secretary Steven T. 
Mnuchin'' (September 1, 2020). Witness: Steven T. Mnuchin, 
Secretary, Department of the Treasury.
    Remote Hearing on ``Ensuring a Free, Fair, and Safe 
Election During the Coronavirus Pandemic'' (September 9, 2020). 
Witnesses: Mr. Jay Ashcroft, Missouri Secretary of State; Ms. 
Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director, Lawyers' 
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, 
M.D., Vice Chair of Global Health Committee, Infectious 
Diseases Society of America and Assistant Professor of 
Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical University 
of South Carolina; Ms. Mimi Marziani, President, Texas Civil 
Rights Project; Ms. Kerry Washington, Actor and Activist.
    Hybrid Hearing ``With Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. 
Powell'' (September 23, 2020). Witness: The Honorable Jerome H. 
Powell, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
    Hybrid Hearing ``With Secretary of Health and Human 
Services Alex M. Azar II'' (October 2, 2020). Witness: The 
Honorable Alex M. Azar II, Secretary, Department of Health and 
Human Services.

III. FORMAL BIPARTISAN MEMBER BRIEFINGS HELD IN LIEU OF HEARINGS DURING 
                           COVID-19 PANDEMIC


                           A. Full Committee

    On March 20, 2020, the Full Committee held a telephone 
Member briefing on ``The Coronavirus Crisis.'' Briefer: Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter T. 
Gaynor.
    On March 30, 2020, the Full Committee held a video briefing 
regarding shortages in coronavirus tests, personal protective 
equipment (PPE) to protect health care workers from contracting 
the coronavirus, and medical equipment needed to treat 
critically ill patients. Briefers: Dr. Robert Kadlec, Assistant 
Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health 
and Human Services (HHS); Mr. Brian Shuy, Deputy Assistant 
Director and Chief of Staff to Dr. Kadlec, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Mr. Joel Doolin, Associate Administrator 
for Policy, Program Analysis, and International Affairs, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); and Rear Admiral 
John Polowczyk, Senior Logistics Officer for the Joint Chiefs, 
Chair, Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency.
    On April 3, 2020, the Full Committee held a Member briefing 
on ``Women's Rights in Afghanistan.'' Briefer: Special 
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John 
F. Sopko.
    On April 9, 2020, the Full Committee held a video Member 
briefing on the Coronavirus Crisis. Briefer: United States 
Postal Service Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan.
    On April 14, 2020, the Full Committee held a telephone 
Member briefing with Census Experts on the Impact of 
Coronavirus on 2020 Census. Briefers: Mr. John Thompson, Former 
Director, Census Bureau; Mr. John Yang, President and Executive 
Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Mr. Arturo Vargas, 
Chief Executive Officer, NALEO Educational Fund; Ms. Terri Ann 
Lowenthal, Census Consultant.
    On April 17, 2020, the Full Committee held a conference 
call briefing on the Coronavirus Crisis and Immigrant Detention 
Facilities. Briefers: Mr. Matthew T. Albence, Acting Director, 
Immigration Customs Enforcement; Mr. Mark Morgan, Acting 
Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection.
    On April 24, 2020, the Full Committee held a conference 
call briefing on the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on the 
2020 Census. Briefers: Dr. Steven Dillingham, Director, Census 
Bureau; Mr. Albert E. Fontenot Jr., Associate Director for 
Decennial Census Programs, Census Bureau.
    On May 7, 2020, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney and 
Representative Donald S. Beyer, Jr., the Vice Chairman of the 
Joint Economic Committee held a call on ``Economic Priorities 
for CARES 2.'' Briefer: Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Professor, 
Columbia University, Chief Economist, The Roosevelt Institute.
    On May 8, 2020, the Full Committee held a briefing on the 
lessons from Hurricane Katrina and how those lessons could be 
implemented to improve the federal response to the Coronavirus 
Crisis. Briefer: Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore (Ret.).
    On May 19, 2020, the Full Committee held a closed briefing 
on ``F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Maintenance and Performance.'' 
Briefers: Colonel Michael Allison, 56th Maintenance Group 
Commander, Luke Air Force Base; Colonel Michael Miles, 388th 
Maintenance Group Commander, Hill Air Force Base.
    On June 19, 2020, the Full Committee held a briefing on 
``Voice from the Front: An Overdue Reckoning with Structural 
Racism in Policing.'' Briefers: Ms. Keturah Herron, Policy 
Strategist, ACLU of Kentucky; Mr. Cephus ``Uncle Bobby X'' 
Johnson, Uncle of Oscar Grant, Co-Founder of Families United 
for Justice and Co-Founder of Love Not Blood Campaign.

                  B. Subcommittee on National Security

    On April 27, 2020, the Subcommittee on National Security 
and the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held a 
joint telephone briefing on ``Pharmaceutical Supply Chain 
Security'' to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on 
the global supply chain for pharmaceuticals sold in the United 
States, with a particular focus on national security and 
consumer implications. Briefers: Dr. Janet Woodcock, Director, 
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug 
Administration; Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, Deputy Director for 
Operations, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and 
Drug Administration; Dr. Doug Throckmorton, Deputy Director for 
Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 
Food and Drug Administration; Ms. Mary Beth Clarke, Director, 
Office of Executive Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and 
Research, Food and Drug Administration.
    On April 29, 2020, the Subcommittee on National Security 
held a telephone briefing on current events in Afghanistan. 
Briefer: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction John F. Sopko.
    On May 14, 2020, the Subcommittee on National Security held 
a briefing on ``Coronavirus in Africa and Implications for 
International Security.'' Briefers: Mr. Bob Kitchen, Vice 
President of Emergencies and Humanitarian Action, International 
Rescue Committee; Ms. Claudine Awute, West Africa Regional 
Director, CARE International; Ms. Kijala Shako, Head of 
Advocacy, Campaigns, Communication, and Media for East and 
Southern Africa, Save the Children.
    On May 29, 2020, the Subcommittee on National Security held 
a briefing on ``Cyberthreats to U.S. and Global Coronavirus 
Response.'' Briefers: Ms. Tonya Ugoretz, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Cybersecurity Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation; Mr. Bryan Ware, Assistant Director, 
Cybersecurity Division, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 
Security Agency; Mr. Adam Hickey, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, National Security Division, Department of Justice.
    On August 17, 2020, the Subcommittee on National Security 
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, 
Nonproliferation, and the Pacific held a briefing on ``China's 
Oppression of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.'' Briefers: Mr. 
Dolkun Isa, President, World Uyghur Congress; Ms. Jessica 
Batke, Senior Editor, ChinaFile, Center on U.S.-China 
Relations; Ms. Maya Wang, China Senior Researcher, Human Rights 
Watch.

                C. Subcommittee on Government Operations

    On April 28, 2020, the Subcommittee on Government 
Operations held a telephone briefing on Inspectors General 
response to the coronavirus pandemic. Briefers: Inspector 
General Michael Horowitz, Department of Justice, Chairman of 
the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency; 
Mr. Richard K. Delmar, Acting Treasury Inspector General; Mr. 
Hannibal ``Mike'' Ware, Inspector General, Small Business 
Administration.
    On June 1, 2020, the Subcommittee on Government Operations 
held a briefing on the role of Inspectors General to the 
oversight of the pandemic response. Briefer: The Honorable 
Scott S. Dahl, Inspector General, Department of Labor.

            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy

    On June 9, 2020, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer 
Policy held a briefing on ``COVID-19 Antibody Testing: Uses, 
Abuses, Limitations, and the Federal Response.'' Briefers: Dr. 
Jesse Goodman, M.D., MPH, Director, Center on Medical Product 
Access, Safety and Stewardship (COMPASS), Georgetown 
University, Former-Chief Scientist, Food and Drug 
Administration; Dr. Jennifer Rakeman, Ph.D., Assistant 
Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental 
Hygiene; Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Ph.D., Senior Scholar & Associate 
Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 
Center for Health Security; Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, M.D., MPH, 
Chair, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association.
    On July 14, 2020, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer 
Policy held a briefing on ``Guardrails to Ensure a Safe and 
Effective COVID-19 Vaccine.'' Briefers: Dr. Bruce Gellin, M.D., 
M.P.H., President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine 
Institute, Former-Director, National Vaccine Program, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Jesse Goodman, 
M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center on Medical Product Access, 
Safety and Stewardship (COMPASS), Georgetown University, 
Former-Chief Scientist, Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Ruth 
Karron, M.D., Director, Center for Immunization Research, Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Former-Chair, 
Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee; Dr. 
Jason Schwartz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Health Policy, 
Yale School of Public Health.

                     E. Subcommittee on Environment

    On July 7, 2020, the Subcommittee on Environment held a 
briefing on ``Plastic Production, Pollution and Waste in the 
Time of Covid-19: The Life-Threatening Impact of Single Use 
Plastic on Human Health.'' Briefers: Ms. Judith Enck, 
President, Beyond Plastics, Former Environmental Protection 
Agency Regional Administrator; Ms. Monique Harden, Assistant 
Director of Law and Public Policy, Community Engagement Program 
Manager, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice; Dr. 
Kimberly Terrell, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Tulane Environmental 
Law Clinic; Ms. Yvette Arellano, Policy Research and Grassroots 
Advocate, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services 
(T.E.J.A.S.); Ms. Carroll Muffett, President & Chief Executive 
Officer, Center for International Environmental Law.

          F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

    On June 29, 2020, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and 
Civil Liberties held a briefing on ``The First Amendment Under 
Attack: Examining Government Violence Against Peaceful Civil 
Rights Protesters and the Journalists Covering Them.'' 
Briefers: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for 
Advanced Study at Harvard University; Linda Tirado, Journalist; 
Reverend Gini Gerbasi, Rector, Saint John's Episcopal Church, 
Georgetown; LaToya Ratliff, Protester; Gustavo Martinez, 
Freelance Journalist; Andy Ngo, Editor-at-Large, The Post 
Millennial.

            G. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

    On May 13, 2020, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
Crisis held a briefing on ``Coronavirus Testing, Tracing, and 
Targeted Containment: Steps to Reopen the Country.'' Briefers: 
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Former Commissioner, Food and Drug 
Administration (2017-2019), Resident Fellow, American 
Enterprise Institute; Dr. Mark McClellan, Former Commissioner, 
Food and Drug Administration (2002-2004), Former Administrator, 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2004-2006), 
Founding Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke 
University; Dr. Ashish Jha, Director, Harvard Global Health 
Institute, Harvard University; Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director, 
Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 
Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive 
Director, American Public Health Association.
    On May 21, 2020, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
Crisis held a briefing on ``Heroes of the Coronavirus Crisis: 
Protecting Front-line and Essential Workers During the 
Pandemic.'' Briefers: Dr. Megan Ranney, M.D., MPH, Emergency 
Physician & Associate Professor, Brown University; Ms. Talisa 
Hardin, Registered Nurse, University of Chicago Medical Center; 
Ms. Diana Wilson, Emergency Medical Technician, New York City 
Fire Department; Ms. Zenobia Shepherd, Mother of Leilani 
Jordan; Mr. Eric Colts, Bus Driver, Detroit Department of 
Transportation; Mr. Marcos Aranda, Custodian, Pacific Gas and 
Electric; Dr. Shanti Akers, Pulmonary Critical Care Physician, 
Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, Georgia; Mr. Steve 
Pettus, Managing Partner, Dickie Brennan & Co. Restaurant 
Group.
    On May 29, 2020, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
Crisis held a briefing on ``Supporting America's Cities: What 
Mayors Need to Safely Reopen.'' Briefers: Mayor Bryan K. 
Barnett, Rochester Hills, Michigan; Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin, 
Columbia, South Carolina; Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta, 
Georgia; Mayor Jenny Durkan, Seattle, Washington; Mayor Eric 
Garcetti, Los Angeles, California; Mayor Mary Jane Scott, 
Mangum, Oklahoma; Mayor Leonard B. Curry, Jacksonville, 
Florida; Mayor Mary Jane Scott, Mangum, Oklahoma.
    On June 4, 2020, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
Crisis held a briefing on ``An Unequal Burden: Addressing 
Racial Health Disparities in the Coronavirus Pandemic.'' 
Briefers: Dr. Uche Blackstock, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, 
Advancing Health Equity; Dr. Eva Galvez, M.D., Family 
Physician, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center; Fawn Sharp, 
President, National Congress of American Indians; Dr. Leana 
Wen, MD MSc, Visiting Professor, George Washington University 
Milken School of Public Health.
    On June 11, 2020, the Select Subcommittee on the 
Coronavirus Crisis held a briefing on ``The Devasting Impact of 
the Coronavirus Crisis in America's Nursing Homes.'' Briefers: 
Dr. David C. Grabowski, Professor of Health Care Policy, 
Harvard Medical School; Mr. Chris Brown, Certified Nursing 
Assistant, Chicago, Illinois; Mr. Phil Kerpen, President, 
American Commitment; Alison Lolley, Daughter of Nursing Home 
Resident, Monroe, Louisiana; Eric Carlson, Directing Attorney, 
Justice in Aging.

                    IV. LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS


                   A. Business Meetings (Legislation)

    Organizational meeting to appoint the Chairs and Ranking 
Members of the five subcommittees and adopt the Committee Rules 
(January 29, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider H.R. 745, the Executive Branch 
Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act; H.R. 964 Transition Team 
Ethics Improvement Act; H.R. 1076, the Fair Chance Act; H.R. 
1496 the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act; H.R. 1847, 
the Inspector General Protection Act; and several postal naming 
measures (March 26, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider a resolution recommending that 
the House of Representatives find the Attorney General and the 
Secretary of Commerce in contempt of Congress for their refusal 
to comply with duly authorized subpoenas relating to the 2020 
Census; H.R. 391, White House Ethics Transparency Act; H.R. 
2003, Ensuring Federal Employees Health Benefits Program 
(FEHBP) Coverage During Shutdowns Act; H.R. 2004, Ensuring 
Federal Employees Dental/Vision Program (FEDVIP) and Federal 
Long-Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) Coverage During 
Shutdowns Act; H.R. 2530, Interim Stay Authority to Protect 
Whistleblowers Act; H.R. 1668, Internet of Things Cybersecurity 
Improvement Act; H.R. 2978, National Historical Publications 
and Records Commission Reauthorization Act; and bills to 
designate United States Postal Service facilities were approved 
by the Committee and ordered favorably reported to the House by 
Unanimous Consent (June 12, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider S. 406, The Federal Rotational 
Cyber Workforce Program Act of 2019; H.R. 3889, The ONDCP 
Technical Corrections Act of 2019; bills to designate United 
States Postal Service facilities were approved by the Committee 
and ordered favorably reported to the House by Unanimous 
Consent (July 25, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider S. 375, The Payment Integrity 
Information Act of 2019; H.R. 5214, The Representative Payee 
Fraud Prevention Act of 2019; H.R. 3883, The Restore the 
Partnership Act; H.R. 3830, The Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act; 
H.R. 2575, The AI in Government Act of 2019; bills to designate 
United States Postal Service facilities were approved by the 
Committee and ordered favorably reported to the House by 
Unanimous Consent (December 19, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider H.R. 5803, Washington, D.C. 
Admission Act (February 11, 2020).
    Business meeting to consider H.R. 4894, Congressional 
Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2019; H.R. 6020, to 
Require an Evaluation by the Government Accountability Office 
of the Social, Economic, and Historic Contributions that Minor 
League Baseball Has Made to American Life and Culture; bills to 
designate United States Postal Service facilities were approved 
by the Committee and ordered favorably reported to the House by 
Unanimous Consent (March 4, 2020).
    Business meeting to consider H.R. 4382, The Integrity 
Committee Transparency Act; H.R. 5901, The Modernization 
Centers of Excellence Program; H.R. 8109, Nonpartisan 
Postmaster General Act; H.R. 7496, COVID Prepare Act; H.R. 
7340, Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act; H.R. 7548, Made in 
America: Preparation for a Pandemic Act; H.R. 7107, The 
Periodically Listing Updates to Management Act; H.R. 7936, 
Federal Employee Access to Information Act; bills to designate 
United States Postal Service facilities were approved by the 
Committee and ordered favorably reported to the House by 
Unanimous Consent (September 16, 2020).

                     B. Business Meeting (Subpoena)

    Business meeting to consider a motion to subpoena the 
Attorney General William P. Barr, Secretary of Homeland 
Security Kirstjen M. Nelson, and Secretary of Health and Human 
Services Alex M. Azar II for records in connection with the 
Committee's investigation into the Trump Administration's child 
separation policy (February 26, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider a motion to subpoena the 
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Gore, Attorney 
General William P. Barr, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. 
Ross, Jr. for records in connection with the Committee's 
investigation into the addition of a citizenship question to 
the 2020 Census (April 2, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider a motion to subpoena Counselor 
to the President Kellyanne Conway for testimony in connection 
with Ms. Conway's failure to comply with the Hatch Act and 
ethics laws (June 26, 2019).
    Business meeting to consider a motion to subpoena records 
relating to the Committee's investigation into the use of non-
official electronic messaging accounts by non-career officials 
at the White House, including from Acting White House Chief of 
Staff John Michael ``Mick'' Mulvaney (July 25, 2019).

                    C. Legislation Enacted Into Law

    H.R. 150, the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements 
Transparency Act of 2019. Introduced on January 3, 2019, by 
Rep. Virginia Foxx. The legislation requires the establishment 
and use of data standards for information reported by 
recipients of federal grants. The legislation also requires the 
Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive 
department that issues the most federal grant awards, to (1) 
establish government-wide data standards for information 
reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing 
federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the 
publication of recipient-reported data collected from all 
agencies on a single public website.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; House passed January 17, 2019; 
        Senate passed October 21, 2019, with an amendment; House passed 
        Senate amended version December 16, 2019; President signed into 
        law December 30, 2019

    H.R. 1076, the FAIR Chance Act. Introduced on February 7, 
2019, by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. The legislation prohibits 
federal agencies and federal contractors from requesting that 
applicants for employment disclose criminal history record 
information before receiving a conditional offer of employment. 
Agencies may not require an individual or sole proprietor who 
submits a bid for a contract to disclose criminal history 
record information regarding that individual or sole proprietor 
before determining the apparent awardee. The legislation (1) 
sets forth positions to which such prohibitions shall not 
apply; and (2) requires the Office of Personnel Management 
(OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the 
Department of Defense (DOD) to issue regulations identifying 
additional positions with respect to which the prohibition 
shall not apply. OPM, the Office of Congressional Workplace 
Rights, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 
GSA, and DOD must (1) establish procedures for submitting 
complaints about, and taking actions against, agency employees 
and contractors for violating such prohibitions and for 
appealing such an action; and (2) issue regulations to 
implement this bill. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 
coordination with the Census Bureau, must design and initiate a 
study on the employment of individuals who are released from 
federal prison after completing a term of imprisonment for a 
federal criminal offense.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; Committee passed March 26, 
        2019. Enacted on December 20, 2019; as part of S. 1790--
        National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.

    H.R. 1079, the Creating Advanced Streamlined Electronic 
Services for Constituents Act of 2019. Introduced on February 
7, 2019, by Rep. Garret Graves. The legislation directs the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to require each federal 
agency to accept electronic identity proofing and 
authentication processes that allow an individual, under the 
Privacy Act, to access the individual's records or to provide 
prior written consent for the disclosure of the individual's 
records. This legislation also requires OMB to: (1) create a 
template for electronic consent and access forms; and (2) 
require each agency to accept such forms from any individual 
properly identity proofed and authenticated.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; House passed February 11, 
        2019; Senate passed July 31, 2019; President signed into law 
        August 22, 2019

    H.R. 1534, the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act. Introduced 
on March 5, 2019, by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. The legislation 
would create a benefit to make federal employees eligible for 
12 weeks of paid leave for any reason such leave is available 
under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

History: Introduced on March 5, 2019; House passed the bill on July 12, 
        2019, as part of H.R. 2500; Portions of the bill signed into 
        law December 20, 2019

    H.R. 1668, the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. 
Introduced on March 11, 2019, by Rep. Robin Kelly. This 
legislation requires the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (NIST) and the Office of Management and Budget to 
take specified steps to increase cybersecurity for Internet of 
Things (IoT) devices. IoT is the extension of Internet 
connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. The 
legislation establishes September 30, 2019, as the deadline for 
the completion of NIST's efforts regarding considerations for 
managing IoT cybersecurity risks, especially regarding examples 
of possible cybersecurity capabilities of IoT devices. By March 
31, 2020, NIST must develop recommendations for the appropriate 
use and management of IoT devices owned or controlled by the 
government, including minimum information security requirements 
for managing cybersecurity risks. The Office of Management and 
Budget shall then issue guidelines for each agency that are 
consistent with such recommendations. NIST and OMB shall 
publish guidance on policies and procedures for the reporting, 
coordinating, publishing, and receiving of information about a 
security vulnerability relating to an IoT device used by the 
government and the resolution of such security vulnerability.

History: Introduced on March 11, 2019; Committee consideration June 12, 
        2019; House passed September 14, 2020; Senate passed November 
        17, 2020; President signed into law December 4, 2020

    H.R. 2575, the AI in Government Act of 2020. Introduced on 
May 8, 2019, by Rep. Jerry McNerney. This legislation 
establishes the AI Center of Excellence within the General 
Services Administration to advise and promote the efforts of 
the federal government in developing innovative uses of 
artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit the public and improve 
cohesion and competency in the use of AI. OMB must issue a 
memorandum to federal agencies regarding AI governance 
approaches, to be followed by preparation and submission of 
governance plans by the agencies. In addition, OPM must 
identify key skills and competencies needed for positions 
related to AI; and establish an occupational series, or revise 
an existing job series, to include positions the primary duties 
of which relate to AI.

History: Introduced on May 8, 2019; Committee consideration December 
        19, 2019; House passed September 14, 2020; President signed 
        into law December 28, 2020, as part of the Consolidated 
        Appropriation Act of 2021

    H.R. 3889, the ONDCP Technical Corrections Act of 2019. 
Introduced on July 23, 2019, by Rep. Harley Rouda. The 
legislation makes permanent the grant supporting the National 
Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute. Among other things, 
the legislation also makes technical corrections and repeals a 
requirement that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 
audit ONDCP.

History: Introduced on July 23, 2019; Committee consideration July 25, 
        2019; House passed October 16, 2019; Senate passed November 14, 
        2019; President signed into law November 27, 2019

    H.R. 4147, the Whistleblower Expansion Act. Introduced on 
August 2, 2019, by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly. The legislation 
makes technical changes to clarify that subcontractors and 
subgrantees are covered by the whistleblower protections 
afforded by 41 U.S.C. 4712.

History: Introduced on August 2, 2019; House passed as part of H.R. 
        6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
        2021 July 21, 2020; President signed on December 28, 2020 as 
        part of the Consolidated Appropriation Act, 2021

    H.R. 5214, the Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act of 
2019. Introduced on November 21, 2019, by Rep. Rashida Tlaib. 
The legislation prohibits a representative payee (i.e., a 
person designated to receive payments on behalf of a minor, a 
mentally incompetent individual, or an individual under other 
legal disability) from embezzling or converting the amounts 
received from certain retirement funds. If OPM determines that 
a representative payee has embezzled or converted payments from 
the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees 
Retirement System for a use other than the benefit of the 
individual on whose behalf such payments were received, OPM 
shall (1) revoke the certification for payment of benefits to 
the representative payee, and (2) certify payment to another 
representative payee or to the individual.

History: Introduced on November 21, 2019; Committee consideration 
        December 19, 2019; House passed February 5, 2020; Senate passed 
        March 3, 2020; President signed into law March 18, 2020

    H.R. 5430, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement 
Implementation Act. Introduced on December 13, 2019, by Rep. 
Steny Hoyer. The legislation provides statutory authority for 
the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and 
Canada (USMCA), which replaces the North American Free Trade 
Agreement. Specifically, the legislation implements provisions 
that include labor and environment monitoring and enforcement, 
de minimis levels for U.S. exports, and cooperation among 
treaty members to prevent duty evasion.

History: Introduced on December 13, 2019; House passed December 19, 
        2019; Senate passed January 16, 2020; President signed into law 
        January 29, 2020

    H.R. 5901, the Information Technology Modernization, on 
Centers of Excellence Program Act. Introduced on February 13, 
2020, by Rep. Ro Khanna. This legislation requires GSA to 
establish an Information Technology Modernization Centers of 
Excellence Program to facilitate the adoption of modern 
technology by executive agencies. GSA shall: (1) coordinate 
with DHS in establishing the program to ensure that the 
technology, tools, and frameworks facilitated for executive 
agencies by the program provide sufficient cybersecurity and 
maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of 
federal information; and (2) report to Congress.

History: Introduced on February 13, 2020; Committee consideration 
        September 16, 2020; House passed September 30, 2020; Senate 
        passed November 17, 2020; President signed into law December 3, 
        2020

    H.R. 8694, Oversight.gov Authorization Act. Introduced by 
Rep. Ted Lieu on October 27, 2020. This legislation authorizes 
the establishment of an oversight.gov website managed by the 
Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency on 
which each report issued by an Office of Inspector General 
shall be posted. The section authorizes $3.5 million to carry 
out the duties of the Council, including establishment of the 
website.

History: Introduced on October 27, 2020. President signed into law 
        December 28, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriation 
        Act, 2021

    H.R. 8955, the Construction Consensus Procurement Integrity 
Act. Introduced on December 14, 2020 by Rep. James Comer. This 
legislation prohibits the use of reverse auctions for awarding 
federal contracts for complex, specialized, or substantial 
construction and design services. Generally, a reverse auction 
is one in which there are multiple sellers lowering their bids 
to win a supply or service contract.

History: Introduced on December 14, 2020. President signed a version of 
        legislation into law on December 28, 2020, as part of the 
        Consolidated Appropriation Act, 2021

    S. 375, the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019. 
Introduced on February 7, 2019, by Sen. Thomas Carper. The 
legislation reorganizes and revises several existing improper 
payments statutes, which establish requirements for federal 
agencies to cut down on improper payments made by the federal 
government. OMB may establish one or more pilot programs to 
test potential accountability mechanisms for compliance with 
requirements regarding improper payments and the elimination of 
improper payments. The legislation requires OMB to update its 
plan for improving the death data maintained by the Social 
Security Administration (SSA) and improving federal agency use 
of death data. The legislation also establishes an interagency 
working group on payment integrity.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; Senate passed July 16, 2019; 
        Committee consideration December 19, 2019; House passed 
        February 5, 2020; President signed into law March 2, 2020

    S. 394, the Presidential Transition Enhancement Act of 
2019. Introduced on February 7, 2019, by Sen. Ron Johnson. The 
legislation makes changes intended to smooth the transfer of 
executive power during presidential transitions. The 
legislation provides for the detailing of legislative branch 
employees on a reimbursable basis to office staffs designated 
by the President-elect or Vice President-elect with the consent 
of the supervising Member of Congress. The legislation also 
extends support provided by GSA to the President- and Vice 
President-elect for up to 60 days after the inauguration. By 
September 1 of a year during which a presidential election 
occurs, the GSA shall enter into a memorandum of understanding 
(MOU) with each eligible candidate, which shall include the 
conditions for administrative support services and facilities. 
To the maximum extent practicable, an MOU shall be based on 
MOUs relating to previous presidential transitions. Each MOU 
shall include an agreement that the eligible candidate will 
implement and enforce an ethics plan to guide the conduct of 
the transition beginning on the date on which such candidate 
becomes President-elect. The plan shall be published on the GSA 
website. By September 15 of a year during which a presidential 
election occurs, each agency shall ensure that a succession 
plan is in place for each senior noncareer position in the 
agency.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; Senate passed August 1, 2019; 
        House passed February 5, 2020; President signed into law March 
        3, 2020

    S. 2193, the CHARGE Act. Introduced on July 18, 2019, by 
Sen. Gary Peters. The legislation requires GSA to issue: (1) 
guidance to clarify that federal agencies may use a charge card 
to pay to charge federal electric motor vehicles at commercial 
charging stations, and (2) a charge card for such payments to 
each agency for each of the agency's electric motor vehicles.

History: Introduced on July 18, 2019; Senate passed November 21, 2019; 
        House passed September 14, 2020; President signed into law 
        October 1, 2020

                      D. Bills Passed by the House

    H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019. Introduced on 
January 3, 2019, by Rep. John Sarbanes. This legislation 
addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, 
political spending, and ethics for the three branches of 
government. This legislation sets forth provisions related to 
ethics in all three branches of government. Specifically, the 
legislation requires a code of ethics for federal judges and 
justices, prohibits Members of the House from serving on the 
board of a for-profit entity, expands enforcement of 
regulations governing foreign agents, and establishes 
additional conflict-of-interest and ethics provisions for 
federal employees and the White House. The legislation also 
requires candidates for President and Vice President to submit 
10 years of tax returns.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; House passed March 8, 2019. 
        Committee consideration of provisions referred March 26, 2019

    H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Introduced on 
January 3, 2019, by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton. The legislation 
provides for admission into the United States of the state of 
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the 
territory of the District of Columbia. The state shall be 
admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other 
states. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall issue a 
proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two 
Senators and one Representative of the state. The legislation 
applies current District laws to the state and continues 
pending judicial proceedings. The state: (1) shall consist of 
all District territory, with specified exclusions for federal 
buildings and monuments, including the principal federal 
monuments, the White House, the Capitol Building, the U.S. 
Supreme Court Building, and the federal executive, legislative, 
and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the Mall and 
the Capitol Building; and (2) may not impose taxes on federal 
property except as Congress permits. District territory 
excluded from the state shall be known as the Capital and shall 
be the seat of the federal government. The bill maintains the 
federal government's authority over military lands and 
specified other property. The legislation provides for 
expedited consideration of a joint resolution repealing the 
23rd Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for the 
appointment of electors of the President and Vice President. 
The legislation continues certain federal authorities and 
responsibilities, including regarding employee benefits, 
agencies, courts, and college tuition assistance, until the 
state certifies that it is prepared to take over the 
authorities and responsibilities. The legislation establishes 
the Statehood Transition Commission to advise the President, 
Congress, and District and state leaders on the transition.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; Committee consideration, see 
        H.R. 5803 of ``Bills Considered by Committee''; House passed 
        June 26, 2020

    H.R. 113, the All-American Flag Act. Introduced on January 
3, 2019, by Rep. Cheri Bustos. This legislation prohibits 
agencies from using funds to procure a U.S. flag unless such 
flag has been manufactured in the United States from materials 
that have been U.S. grown, produced, or manufactured. The 
legislation specifies exceptions to this prohibition, including 
an exception if flags of satisfactory quality and sufficient 
quantity cannot be procured as needed at market prices.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; House passed January 15, 2019

    H.R. 135, the Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee 
Antidiscrimination Act of 2019. Introduced on January 3, 2019, 
by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. This legislation requires each 
federal agency to establish a model Equal Employment 
Opportunity Program that is independent of the agency's Human 
Capital or General Counsel office, and it establishes 
requirements related to complaints of discrimination and 
retaliation in the workplace. An agency must publish a notice 
of any final agency action or Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission (EEOC) appellate decision involving a finding of 
prohibited discrimination or retaliation, and it must report 
certain data with respect to specified equal opportunity 
complaints. Each agency must establish a system to track 
complaints of discrimination and include a notation of any 
adverse action taken against an employee for discrimination or 
retaliation in the employee's personnel record. EEOC must refer 
to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) a matter about which it 
issues an appellate decision involving a finding of 
discrimination or retaliation within a federal agency, and the 
Office of Special Counsel shall accept and review such referral 
for purposes of seeking disciplinary action. An employee who 
has authority to take, recommend, or approve any personnel 
action shall not implement or enforce a nondisclosure policy 
that prohibits or restricts an employee from disclosing 
information relating to: (1) a violation of any law, rule, or 
regulation; (2) mismanagement, gross waste of funds, or abuse 
of authority; (3) a substantial and specific danger to public 
health or safety; or (4) any other whistle-blower protection.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; House passed January 15, 2019. 
        House passed as part of H.R. 6395, the National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 July 21, 2020; House 
        passed as part of the conference report for H.R. 6395 December 
        8, 2020; Senate passed as part of the conference report for 
        H.R. 6395 on December 11, 2020

    H.R. 202, the Inspector General Access Act of 2019. 
Introduced on January 3, 2019, by Rep. Cedric Richmond. This 
legislation transfers responsibility for investigating certain 
allegations of misconduct from the DOJ Office of Professional 
Responsibility to the DOJ Office of Inspector General. 
Specifically, the legislation transfers responsibility for 
allegations relating to a DOJ attorney's authority to 
investigate, litigate, or provide legal advice.

History: Introduced on January 3, 2019; House passed January 15, 2019

    H.R. 247, the Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2019. 
Introduced on January 4, 2019, by Rep. Will Hurd. This 
legislation reorganizes OMB information technology (IT) 
activities and establishes new IT reporting requirements. The 
legislation renames (1) the Office of E-Government & 
Information Technology (E-Gov) as the Office of the Federal 
Chief Information Officer (Federal CIO), and (2) the E-
Government Fund as the Federal IT Fund. The office shall be 
headed by a Federal Chief Information Officer who shall report 
directly to the Director of OMB (currently, the head of E-Gov 
reports to the Deputy Director). There is established in the 
office a Federal Chief Information Security Officer. Agencies 
must report IT expenditures to the Federal CIO. The Federal CIO 
must publish timely, searchable, computer-readable data on 
agency IT expenditures, projects, and programs. The Federal CIO 
shall submit to Congress a proposal for consolidating IT across 
the federal government and increasing the use of shared 
services.

History: Introduced on January 4, 2019; House passed January 15, 2019

    H.R. 736, the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports 
Act. Introduced on January 23, 2019, by Rep. Mike Quigley. This 
legislation requires the Government Publishing Office (GPO) to 
establish and maintain a publicly available online portal 
containing copies of all congressionally mandated reports. A 
federal agency must submit a congressionally mandated report 
and specified information about the report to GPO between 30 
and 45 calendar days after submission of the report to either 
chamber or to any congressional committee or subcommittee. Upon 
the written request of the chair of a congressional committee 
or subcommittee to GPO, a report submitted to that committee or 
subcommittee shall not be submitted or published on the portal. 
Federally chartered corporations and GAO Office are excluded 
from the requirements of this legislation. OMB must issue 
guidance to federal agencies on the legislation's requirement 
for agencies to submit copies of congressionally mandated 
reports and related information to the GPO.

History: Introduced on January 23, 2019; House passed July 18, 2019

    H.R. 790, Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act 
of 2019. Introduced on January 25, 2019, by Rep. Gerald 
Connolly. This legislation increases by 2.6% the rates of basic 
pay for federal civilian employees for 2019.

History: Introduced on January 25, 2019; House passed January 30, 2019

    H.R. 995, the Settlement Agreement Information Database Act 
of 2019. Introduced on February 6, 2019, by Rep. Gary Palmer. 
This legislation requires executive agencies to submit 
information regarding settlement agreements to a public 
database. Specifically, an agency must submit information 
regarding any settlement agreement (including a consent decree) 
entered into by the agency related to an alleged violation of 
federal law. If an agency determines that information regarding 
an agreement must remain confidential to protect the public 
interest, the agency must publish an explanation of why the 
information is confidential.

History: Introduced on February 6, 2019; House passed February 13, 2019

    H.R. 1063, the Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 
2019. Introduced on February 7, 2019, by Rep. Elijah E. 
Cummings. This legislation requires each presidential library 
fundraising organization to submit quarterly reports to the 
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on every 
contributor who gave the organization a contribution or 
contributions (whether monetary or in-kind) totaling $200 or 
more for the quarterly period. NARA shall publish such 
information on its website within 30 days after each quarterly 
filing. It shall be unlawful for contributors or fundraising 
organizations to knowingly and willfully submit false 
information or omit material information.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; House passed February 11, 2019

    H.R. 1064, To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow 
whistleblowers to disclose information to certain recipients. 
Introduced on February 7, 2019, by Rep. Katie Hill. This 
legislation modifies whistle-blower protections for federal 
employees or applicants who disclose classified national 
security information, or other protected information, that 
evidences wrongdoing. Currently, it is unlawful to retaliate 
against a federal employee for disclosing classified or 
protected information of wrongdoing to one of the following 
recipients: (1) the Office of Inspector General of their 
agency, (2) the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, or (3) a 
designated agency employee. This legislation expands the list 
of recipients to whom a federal employee may make a protected 
disclosure to include a supervisor in the employee's direct 
chain of command.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; House passed February 11, 2019

    H.R. 1065, the Social Media Use in Clearance Investigations 
Act of 2019. Introduced on February 7, 2019, by Rep. Stephen F. 
Lynch. This legislation directs the Office of Management and 
Budget to report on the examination of social media activity 
during security clearance investigations.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2019; House passed February 11, 2020

    H.R. 1140, the Rights for Transportation Security Officers 
Act of 2020. Introduced on February 11, 2019, by Rep. Bennie G. 
Thompson. This legislation modifies the workplace rights, 
protections, and benefits applicable to Transportation Security 
Administration (TSA) personnel. Specifically, the legislation 
within 180 days eliminates personnel authorities of DHS and the 
Department of Transportation governing the conditions of 
employment for TSA employees, thus making TSA employees subject 
to the personnel management system applicable to other federal 
employees; sets forth transition rules that protect the pay 
rates, leave rights, and other rights of TSA employees; and 
requires DHS to consult with the labor organization certified 
by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to carry out the 
conversion of such positions.

History: Introduced on February 11, 2019; House passed March 5, 2020

    H.R. 1235, MSPB Temporary Term Extension Act. Introduced on 
February 14, 2019, by Rep. Elijah Cummings. This legislation 
extends for one year the term of office of an individual who is 
currently serving as a member of the Merit Systems Protection 
Board.

History: Introduced on February 14, 2019; House passed February 25, 
        2019

    H.R. 1446, the Multinational Species Conservation Funds 
Semi-Postal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2019. Introduced on 
February 28, 2010, by Rep. William Lacy Clay. This legislation 
directs the U.S. Postal Service to sell each copy of the 
Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semi-Postal Stamp and 
notify Congress when all copies have been sold.

History: Introduced on February 28, 2019; House passed November 20, 
        2019

    H.R. 1496, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 
2019. Introduced on March 5, 2019, by Rep. Jody B. Hice. This 
legislation revises the compensation provided to a President 
who leaves office after enactment of this legislation or such a 
President's widow or widower. Each such President, excluding a 
President removed from office through impeachment, shall 
receive: (1) an annuity of $200,000 per year for the remainder 
of the President's life, and (2) a monetary allowance of 
$200,000 per year. Such allowance shall be reduced by the 
amount the President's earned income exceeds $400,000. These 
monetary amounts are subject to a cost-of-living increase. The 
widow or widower of each such President shall be entitled to 
receive $100,000 per year, payable monthly, if such individual 
waives the right to each other annuity or pension to which the 
individual is entitled. This amount is subject to a cost-of-
living increase.

History: Introduced on March 5, 2019; Committee consideration March 26, 
        2019; House passed October 16, 2019

    H.R. 1582, the Electronic Message Preservation Act. 
Introduced on March 7, 2019, by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. This 
legislation requires the National Archives and Records 
Administration (NARA) to regulate federal agency preservation 
of electronic messages that are federal records. NARA's 
regulations must: (1) require the electronic capture, 
management, and preservation of such records in accordance with 
the Federal Records Act; (2) require such records to be 
retrievable through electronic searches; (3) include timelines 
for federal agency implementation of the regulations that 
ensure compliance as expeditiously as practicable; (4) 
establish functional requirements for electronic records 
management systems and a process to ensure that such systems 
meet the functional requirements; and (5) include requirements 
for the capture, management, and preservation of other 
electronic records. Agencies must publicly report on their 
compliance with the regulations. NARA must: (1) establish 
standards for the management of electronic presidential records 
during a President's term of office, (2) certify annually 
whether a President's electronic records management controls 
meet the requirements of the Presidential Records Act, and (3) 
report after the conclusion of a President's term of office 
regarding electronic records deposited into the presidential 
archival depository and whether electronic records management 
controls met specified requirements.

History: Introduced on March 7, 2019; House passed March 12, 2019. 
        House passed as part of H.R. 6395, the National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 July 21, 2020; House 
        passed portions of the bill as part of the conference report 
        for H.R. 6395 December 8, 2020; Senate passed as part of the 
        conference report for H.R. 6395 on December 11, 2020

    H.R. 1608, the Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 
2019. Introduced on March 7, 2019, by Rep. William Lacy Clay. 
This legislation revises provisions regarding federal advisory 
committees, including to: (1) require designation of committee 
members as special government employees or representatives, (2) 
apply the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to 
subcommittees and subgroups, and (3) require publication of 
certain information about advisory committees. The legislation 
requires appointments to advisory committees to be made without 
regard to political affiliation or campaign activity, unless 
required by federal statute.

History: Introduced on March 7, 2019; House passed March 12, 2019

    H.R. 1654, the Federal Register Modernization Act. 
Introduced on March 8, 2019, by Rep. Mark Meadows. This 
legislation revises provisions regarding the Federal Register 
or the Code of Federal Regulations, including to replace 
requirements that the documents be printed with requirements 
that the documents be published.

History: Introduced on March 8, 2019; House passed March 12, 2019

    H.R. 1847, the Inspector General Protection Act. Introduced 
on March 21, 2019, by Rep. Ted Lieu. This legislation requires 
the President to notify Congress each time the President places 
an inspector general on nonduty status. If the President fails, 
within 210 days, to make a formal nomination for a vacant 
inspector general position that requires a formal nomination by 
the President to be filled, the President shall communicate to 
Congress within 30 days after the end of such period: (1) the 
reasons why the President has not yet made a formal nomination, 
and (2) a target date for making a formal nomination.

History: Introduced on March 21, 2019; Committee consideration March 
        26, 2019; House passed July 17, 2019

    H.R. 2382, the USPS Fairness Act. Introduced on April 29, 
2019, by Rep. Peter DeFazio. This legislation repeals the 
requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future 
retirement health benefits.

History: Introduced on April 29, 2019; House passed February 5, 2020

    H.R. 3830, the Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act. Introduced on 
July 18, 2019, by Rep. Tim Walberg. This legislation requires 
OMB to expand the information it publishes in its inventory of 
agency programs. The inventory must include information such as 
links to program performance reviews and details regarding 
financial assistance.

History: Introduced on July 18, 2019; Committee consideration December 
        19, 2019; House passed February 5, 2020; House passed as part 
        of H.R. 6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
        Year 2021 July 21, 2020; House passed portions of the bill as 
        part of the conference report for H.R. 6395 December 8, 2020; 
        Senate passed as part of the conference report for H.R. 6395 on 
        December 11, 2020

    H.R. 3941, the FedRAMP Authorization Act. Introduced on 
July 24, 2019, by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly. This legislation 
provides statutory authority for the Federal Risk and 
Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) within GSA. GSA must 
establish a government-wide program that provides the 
authoritative standardized approach to security assessment and 
authorization for cloud computing products and services that 
process unclassified information used by agencies. Agencies 
must ensure that their cloud computing services meet GSA 
requirements. The legislation establishes the Joint 
Authorization Board to conduct security assessments of cloud 
computing services and issue provisional authorizations to 
operate to cloud service providers that meet FedRAMP security 
guidelines. GSA shall: (1) determine the requirements for 
certification of independent assessment organizations, and (2) 
establish the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee.

History: Introduced on July 24, 2019; Committee consideration December 
        19, 2019; House passed February 5, 2020

    H.R. 4894, the Congressional Budget Justification 
Transparency Act of 2020. Introduced on October 29, 2019, by 
Rep. Mike Quigley. This legislation requires federal agencies 
to make budget justification materials available to the public. 
The legislation also requires OMB to make certain details 
regarding the materials available to the public, including a 
list of the agencies that submit budget justification materials 
to Congress, the dates that the materials are submitted to 
Congress and posted online, and links to the materials.

History: Introduced on October 29, 2019; Committee consideration March 
        4, 2020; House passed September 14, 2020

    H.R. 5858, the Federal Employee Parental Leave Corrections 
Act. Introduced on March 10, 2020 by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. 
This legislation makes amendments to the Family and Medical 
Leave Act (P.L. 103-3) to ensure that all federal employees are 
eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental leave, including among 
others employees of the Federal Aviation Administration, the 
Executive Office of the President and certain employees of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs.

History: Introduced on March 10, 2020; House passed as part of H.R. 
        6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
        2021 July 21, 2020; House passed as part of the conference 
        report for H.R. 6395 December 8, 2020; Senate passed as part of 
        the conference report for H.R. 6395 on December 11, 2020

    H.R. 6020, To Require an Evaluation by the Government 
Accountability Office of the Social, Economic, and Historic 
Contributions that Minor League Baseball Has Made to American 
Life and Culture. Introduced on February 28, 2020, by Rep. Lori 
Trahan. This legislation directs the Government Accountability 
Office to evaluate the social, economic, and historic 
contributions that Minor League Baseball has made to American 
life and culture.

History: Introduced on February 28, 2020; Committee consideration March 
        4, 2020; House passed March 10, 2020

    H.R. 7340, the Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act of 2020. 
Introduced on June 25, 2020, by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly. This 
legislation requires federal agencies to develop and disclose 
reopening plans that incorporate certain information before 
sending employees back to work during a public health 
emergency, such as the emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., 
coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the legislation 
requires an agency to post a reopening plan on its website at 
least 30 days before reopening a facility. Among other 
information, the plan must detail: (1) the personal protective 
equipment that the agency will provide to its employees; (2) 
protections for employees whose work requires them to be in 
nonfederal buildings, such as auditors; and (3) potential 
measures to reverse the reopening that still ensure the 
continuity of operations. Each agency's Office of Inspector 
General must report on whether the agency has complied with 
this legislation's requirements and whether the agency has 
provided adequate PPE for its employees.

History: Introduced on June 25, 2020; Committee consideration September 
        16, 2020; House passed September 30, 2020

    H.R. 7448, the Telework for U.S. Innovation Act. Introduced 
by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly on July 1, 2020. This bill makes 
permanent the Telework Enhancement Act Pilot Program in the 
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The program allows 
USPTO employees to telework from locations across the United 
States; USPTO may cover any necessary travel expenses to and 
from an agency worksite. The program is set to expire on 
December 31, 2020.

History: Introduced July 1 2020; House passed as part of H.R. 6395, the 
        National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 July 
        21, 2020; House passed as part of the conference report for 
        H.R. 6395 December 8, 2020; Senate passed as part of the 
        conference report for H.R. 6395 on December 11, 2020

    H.R. 7496, the COVID PREPARE Act of 2020. Introduced on 
July 6, 2020, by Rep. Bradley Schneider. This legislation 
requires federal agencies to submit to Congress plans for 
responding to any resurgence of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus 
disease 2019). Specifically, each agency shall submit: (1) an 
initial report detailing an action plan, informed by research 
and best practices learned from the onset of COVID-19 and 
previous presidentially declared emergencies, for addressing 
the needs and mitigating and eliminating the risks and 
challenges associated with any resurgence in COVID-19 cases; 
and (2) subsequent reports, on a quarterly basis until the 
President ends the declared emergency, that update the details 
submitted in the plan. The initial report shall include agency 
priorities for preparing for and responding to any resurgence; 
measurable goals specific to priorities and a time line for 
addressing each priority; anticipated challenges to addressing 
priorities and how the agency will address such challenges; how 
the agency will consult with Congress, the public, state and 
municipal governments, and relevant stakeholders while working 
remotely; and how the agency plans to issue relevant guidance 
to entities under the jurisdiction of the agency.

History: Introduced on July 6, 2020; Committee consideration September 
        16, 2020; House passed September 30, 2020

    H.R. 7512, the COMMS Act. Introduced on July 9, 2020, by 
Rep. Susan Davis. This legislation renames the House Commission 
on Congressional Mailing Standards as the House Communications 
Standards Commission, to extend the authority of the Commission 
to regulate mass mailings of Members and Members-elect of the 
House of Representatives to all unsolicited mass communications 
of Members and Members-elect of the House, and for other 
purposes.

History: Introduced on July 09, 2020; House passed July 30, 2020

    H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act. Introduced on 
August 11, 2020, by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. This legislation 
prohibits the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from making changes to 
operations or levels of service from those that were in effect 
on January 1, 2020. Specifically, the USPS may not, during the 
period beginning on enactment of this legislation and ending on 
the last day of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) 
public health emergency or January 1, 2021, whichever is later, 
implement or approve any change to the operations or the level 
of service that would impede prompt, reliable, and efficient 
services, including changes in the nature of services that will 
generally affect service on a nationwide basis; revisions of 
service standards; closures or consolidations of post offices 
or reduction of facility hours; prohibitions on payment of 
overtime pay to USPS officers or employees; changes that would 
prevent the USPS from meeting its service standards or that 
would reduce measurements of performance concerning those 
standards; changes that would have the effect of delaying mail, 
allowing non-delivery to a delivery route, or increasing the 
volume of undelivered mail.

History: Introduced on August 11, 2020; House passed August 22, 2020

    S. 3989, the Semiquincentennial Commission Amendments Act. 
Introduced by Senator Pat Toomey on June 17, 2020. This 
legislation Act changes certain requirements of the Commission 
established commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding 
of the United States. The bill would modify the membership of 
the commission and grant the commission the power to authorize 
and license official products and logos.

History: Introduced on June 17, 2020; Senate passed July 21, 2020; 
        House passed December 17, 2020, with an amendment; Senate 
        passed amended version December 19, 2020

    S. 5036, Secret Service Overtime Pay Extension Act. 
Introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham on December 16, 2020. This 
bill extends the authority of the U.S. Secret Service set to 
expire December 31, 2020 to pay its employees in excess of the 
pay cap established in section 5545 of title 5 U.S.C. by three 
additional years. It also requires reporting by the Secret 
Service to Congress on efforts to improve personnel management 
at the Service.

History: Introduced on December 16, 2020; Senate passed December 16; 
        House passed December 18, 2020

               E. Legislation Considered by the Committee

    H.R. 391, the White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2019. 
Introduced on January 9, 2019, by Rep. Stephen L. Lynch. The 
legislation creates transparency requirements for ethics 
waivers (i.e., waivers from the requirement to sign an ethics 
pledge) issued to executive branch appointees. Specifically, 
such ethics waivers must be transmitted to the Office of 
Government Ethics (OGE) and made publicly available online.

History: Introduced on January 9, 2019; Committee passed June 12, 2019. 
        Included in H.R. 1 which passed the House March 8, 2019

    H.R. 745, the Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics 
Enforcement Act of 2019. Introduced on January 24, 2019, by 
Rep. Jamie Raskin. The legislation expands the duties and 
authorities of OGE and reauthorizes OGE through FY2023. Among 
other things, the legislation authorizes the Office of 
Government Ethics to issue subpoenas during investigations, and 
order corrective actions (e.g., divestiture) and issue 
administrative remedies (e.g., suspension or demotion). OGE 
must provide ethics education and training to all designated 
and alternate designated agency ethics officials, who must 
register with, and report to, OGE and their appointing 
authority. Agency ethics officials must provide specified 
ethics records to the Office of OGE in a searchable, sortable, 
and downloadable format; such information must be published on 
the OGE's website.

History: Introduced on January 24, 2019; Committee passed March 26, 
        2019. Included in H.R. 1 which passed the House March 8, 2019

    H.R. 964, the Transition Team Ethics Improvement Act. 
Introduced on February 5, 2019, by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. The 
legislation requires a President-elect to submit to Congress a 
report with a list of any individual: (1) for whom an 
application for a security clearance was submitted, by 10 days 
after its submission; or (2) provided a security clearance, by 
10 days after it was provided. The Federal Transition 
Coordinator must negotiate a memorandum of understanding with 
the transition representative of each eligible candidate by 
October 1 (currently November 1) of a year during which a 
presidential election occurs. Each memorandum of understanding 
shall include an agreement that the eligible candidate will 
implement and enforce an ethics plan to guide the conduct of 
the transition beginning on the date on which the candidate 
becomes the President-elect. The ethics plan shall include a 
description of the ethics requirements that will apply to all 
transition team members; a description of how the transition 
team will address the role on the team of registered lobbyists, 
former registered lobbyists, persons registered under the 
Foreign Agents Registration Act, foreign nationals, other 
foreign agents, and transition team members with sources of 
income or clients that are not disclosed to the public; a Code 
of Ethical Conduct, to which each transition team member will 
sign and be subject to, that reflects the content of the ethics 
plans and that meets other specified requirements; and a 
description of how the transition team will enforce the Code of 
Ethical Conduct.

History: Introduced on February 5, 2019; Committee passed March 26, 
        2019. Included in H.R. 1 which passed the House March 8, 2019

    H.R. 2003, the Ensuring FEHBP Coverage During Shutdowns 
Act. Introduced on April 1, 2019, by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. 
The legislation provides statutory authority to allow federal 
employees to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits 
Program or make changes to their enrollment due to a qualifying 
life event, during a lapse in appropriations for the federal 
government. Specifically, the bill designates the Federal 
Employees Health Benefits Program services as excepted services 
under the Anti-Deficiency Act.

History: Introduced on April 1, 2019; Committee passed June 12, 2019

    H.R. 2004, the Ensuring FEDVIP and FLTCIP Coverage During 
Shutdowns Act. Introduced on April 1, 2019, by Rep. Elijah E. 
Cummings. The legislation prohibits the termination of federal-
employee dental, vision, and long-term-care insurance coverage 
as a result of unpaid premiums or other periodic charges in the 
event of a lapse in appropriations that results in an employee 
being furloughed or an excepted employee working without pay. 
This includes supplemental dental, vision, and long-term-care 
insurance policies.

History: Introduced on April 1, 2019; Committee passed June 12, 2019

    H.R. 2530, the Interim Stay Authority to Protect 
Whistleblowers Act. Introduced on May 7, 2019, by Rep. Gerald 
E. Connolly. The legislation authorizes the general counsel of 
the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily act as a 
member of the board when dealing with matters related to the 
staying of certain personnel actions, and it authorizes a 
single member of the board to carry out certain board duties in 
the event of a lack of quorum.

History: Introduced on May 7, 2019; Committee passed June 12, 2019

    H.R. 2978, the National Historical Publications and Records 
Commission Reauthorization Act of 2019. Introduced on May 23, 
2019, by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly. The legislation reauthorizes 
the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions, 
was introduced by Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman 
Connolly and Ranking Member Meadows on May 23, 2019. The 
legislation would authorize appropriations of $15 million 
annually for fiscal years 2020 through 2025. The legislation 
also adds the Council of State Archivists, a nonprofit 
membership organization of the state and territorial government 
archivists, as a member of the National Historical Publications 
and Records Commissions.

History: Introduced on May 23, 2019; Committee passed June 12, 2019

    H.R. 3883, the Restore the Partnership Act. Introduced on 
July 23, 2019, by Rep. Gerald Connolly. The legislation 
reconstitutes the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental 
Relations (ACIR) as the 31-member Commission on 
Intergovernmental Relations of the United States to bring 
together federal, state, local, and--for the first time--tribal 
stakeholders to engage essential and complex issues that 
require cooperation among the levels of government in the 
United States. The legislation would create a commission to 
convene experts, provide technical assistance, and recommend 
solutions that lead to more appropriate delegations of 
governmental functions.

History: Introduced on July 23, 2019; Committee considered on December 
        19, 2019

    H.R. 4382, the Integrity Committee Transparency Act of 
2019. Introduced on September 18, 2019, by Rep. Gerald E. 
Connolly. The legislation expands the membership of the Council 
of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to include a 
former inspector general and revises requirements regarding the 
council's Integrity Committee. The Integrity Committee must 
provide additional information to: (1) the council when 
requesting an extension of time to evaluate an allegation of 
wrongdoing, and (2) Congress and the council when it closes an 
allegation without referral to the council for investigation. 
The committee must brief congressional committees on its 
activities every six months.

History: Introduced on September 18, 2019; Committee passed September 
        16, 2020

    H.R. 5803, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Introduced 
on February 7, 2020, by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton. The 
legislation provides for admission into the United States of 
the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of 
most of the territory of the District of Columbia. The 
commonwealth shall be admitted to the Union on an equal footing 
with the other states. The Mayor of the District of Columbia 
shall issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress 
of two Senators and one Representative of the commonwealth. The 
legislation applies current District laws to the commonwealth 
and continues pending judicial proceedings. The commonwealth: 
(1) shall consist of all District territory, with specified 
exclusions for federal buildings and monuments, including the 
principal federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol 
Building, the U.S. Supreme Court Building, and the federal 
executive, legislative, and judicial office buildings located 
adjacent to the Mall and the Capitol Building; and (2) may not 
impose taxes on federal property except as Congress permits. 
District territory excluded from the commonwealth shall be 
known as the Capital and shall be the seat of the federal 
government. The bill maintains the federal government's 
authority over military lands and specified other property. The 
legislation provides for expedited consideration of a joint 
resolution repealing the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution, 
which provides for the appointment of electors of the President 
and Vice President. The legislation continues certain federal 
authorities and responsibilities, including regarding employee 
benefits, agencies, courts, and college tuition assistance, 
until the commonwealth certifies that it is prepared to take 
over the authorities and responsibilities. The legislation 
establishes the Statehood Transition Commission to advise the 
President, Congress, and District and commonwealth leaders on 
the transition.

History: Introduced on February 7, 2020; Committee passed February 11, 
        2020. See H.R. 51 for House passage

    H.R. 7107, the PLUM Act of 2020. Introduced on June 4, 
2020, by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. The legislation replaces the 
congressional publication entitled United States Government 
Policy and Supporting Positions, commonly known as the PLUM 
Book, with an online public directory. The PLUM Book contains 
personnel information for federal civil service leadership and 
support positions in the legislative and executive branches 
that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, including 
heads of agencies and policy executives. The book is used to 
identify presidentially appointed positions and is published 
every four years (after each presidential election) by certain 
congressional committees. The legislation requires OPM to 
publish the information contained in the PLUM Book on a public 
website in a format that is easily searchable and that 
otherwise meets certain data standards. Agencies must upload 
updated information to the website on a monthly basis; OPM must 
verify the accuracy of the information twice a year in 
coordination with the White House Office of Presidential 
Personnel. The legislation terminates publication of the PLUM 
Book in its current form on January 1, 2024.

History: Introduced on June 4, 2020; Committee passed September 16, 
        2020

    H.R. 7548, the Made in America: Preparation for a Pandemic 
Act of 2020. Introduced on July 9, 2020, by Rep. Carolyn B. 
Maloney. The legislation establishes a pandemic preparation tax 
credit and a requirement to maintain in the Strategic National 
Stockpile a specified amount of personal protective equipment. 
The pandemic preparation tax credit is an amount equal to 20% 
of the qualified expenses paid or incurred by the taxpayer for 
purposes of producing personal protective equipment that 
qualifies for addition to the Strategic National Stockpile. OMB 
shall ensure that the stockpile includes an amount of personal 
protective equipment sufficient to meet the health security 
needs of the United States for one year during a pandemic or 
other emergency. The legislation requires that at least 25% of 
the personal protective equipment in the stockpile be produced 
domestically, with exceptions. If OMB determines that the 
requirement is not satisfied, it shall: (1) notify specified 
congressional committees on a quarterly basis; and (2) post 
each notification on a General Services Administration website.

History: Introduced on July 9, 2020; Committee passed September 16, 
        2020

    H.R. 7936, the Federal Employee Access to Information Act. 
Introduced on August 4, 2020, by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. The 
legislation prohibits personnel retaliation against federal 
employees and applicants for employment who file requests under 
the Freedom of Information Act or the Privacy Act or who seek 
related administrative or judicial actions.

History: Introduced on August 4, 2020; Committee passed September 16, 
        2020

    H.R. 8109, the Nonpartisan Postmaster General Act of 2020. 
Introduced on August 25, 2020, by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. The 
legislation restricts the political activities of the members 
of the Postal Service Board of Governors, including the 
Postmaster General and the Deputy Postmaster General. 
Specifically, the legislation prohibits: (1) the Postmaster 
General and the Deputy Postmaster General from taking an active 
part in political management or political campaigns; and (2) 
the Board of Governors, the Postmaster General, and the Deputy 
Postmaster General from holding any political position while in 
office or soliciting funds for the campaign of a candidate for 
elected office or for a political party. An individual must 
make certain financial disclosures prior to assuming the duties 
of Postmaster General or Deputy Postmaster General.

History: Introduced on August 25, 2020; Committee passed September 16, 
        2020

               F. Postal Naming Measures Enacted into Law

    H.R. 540, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 770 Ayrault Road in Fairport, New 
York, as the ``Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office''. 
Introduced on January 14, 2019, by Rep. Joseph D. Moelle.
    H.R. 828, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 25 Route 111 in Smithtown, New York, 
as the ``Congressman Bill Carney Post Office''. Introduced on 
January 28, 2019, by Rep. Lee M. Zeldin.
    H.R. 829, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1450 Montauk Highway in Mastic, New 
York, as the ``Army Specialist Thomas J. Wilwerth Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on January 28, 2019, by Rep. Lee M. 
Zeldin.
    H.R. 887, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 877 East 1200 South in Orem, Utah, as 
the ``Jerry C. Washburn Post Office Building''. Introduced on 
January 30, 2019, by Rep. John R. Curtis.
    H.R. 1198, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 404 South Boulder Highway in 
Henderson, Nevada, as the ``Henderson Veterans Memorial Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on February 13, 2019, by Rep. 
Susie Lee.
    H.R. 1250, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, 
Texas, as the ``Lucas Lowe Memorial Post Office''. Introduced 
on February 14, 2019, by Rep. Brian Babin.
    H.R. 1252, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 6531 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, 
California, as the ``Marilyn Monroe Post Office''. Introduced 
on February 14, 2019, by Rep. Tony Cardenas.
    H.R. 1253, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 13507 Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima, 
California, as the ``Ritchie Valens Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on February 14, 2019, by Rep. Tony Cardenas.
    H.R. 1449, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 3033 203rd Street in Olympia Fields, 
Illinois, as the ``Captain Robert L. Martin Post Office''. 
Introduced on February 28, 2019, by Rep. Robin Kelly.
    H.R. 1526, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 200 Israel Road Southeast in 
Tumwater, Washington, as the ``Eva G. Hewitt Post Office''. 
Introduced on March 5, 2019, by Rep. Denny Heck.
    S. 725, To change the address of the postal facility 
designated in honor of Captain Humayun Khan. Introduced on 
March 7, 2019, by Sen. Tim Kaine.
    H,.R. 1833, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 35 Tulip Avenue in Floral Park, New 
York, as the ``Lieutenant Michael R. Davidson Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on March 18, 2019, by Kathleen M. Rice.
    H.R. 1844, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 66 Grove Court in Elgin, Illinois, as 
the ``Corporal Alex Martinez Memorial Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on March 21, 2019, by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.
    H.R. 1972, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1100 West Kent Avenue in Missoula, 
Montana, as the ``Jeannette Rankin Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on March 28, 2019, by Rep. Greg Gianforte.
    H.R. 2151, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 7722 South Main Street in Pine 
Plains, New York, as the ``Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon 
M. Kent Post Office''. Introduced on April 9, 2019, by Rep. 
Antonio Delgado.
    S. 1196, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1715 Linnerud Drive in Sun Prairie, 
Wisconsin, as the ``Fire Captain Cory Barr Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on April 11, 2019, by Sen. Tammy 
Baldwin.
    H.R. 2246, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 201 West Cherokee Street in 
Brookhaven, Mississippi, as the ``Deputy Donald William Durr, 
Corporal Zach Moak, and Patrolman James White Memorial Post 
Office Building''. Introduced by on April 10, 2019 by Rep. 
Michael Guest.
    H.R. 2325, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 100 Calle Alondra in San Juan, Puerto 
Rico, as the ``65th Infantry Regiment Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on April 15, 2019, by Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon.
    H.R. 2451, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 575 Dexter Street in Central Falls, 
Rhode Island, as the ``Elizabeth Buffum Chace Post Office''. 
Introduced on May 1, 2019, by Rep. David N. Cicilline.
    H.R. 2454, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 123 East Sharpfish Street in Rosebud, 
South Dakota, as the ``Ben Reifel Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on May 1, 2019, by Rep. Dusty Johnson.
    H.R. 2969, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1401 1st Street North in Winter 
Haven, Florida, as the ``Althea Margaret Daily Mills Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on May 23, 2019, by Rep. Darren 
Soto.
    H.R. 3005, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 13308 Midland Road in Poway, 
California, as the ``Ray Chavez Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on May 23, 2019, by Rep. Scott H. Peters.
    H.R. 3144, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 8520 Michigan Avenue in Whittier, 
California, as the ``Jose Ramos Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on June 5, 2019, by Rep. Linda T. Sanchez.
    H.R. 3207, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 114 Mill Street in Hookstown, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on June 11, 2019, by Rep. Conner Lamb.
    H.R. 3275, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 340 Wetmore Avenue in Grand River, 
Ohio, as the ``Lance Corporal Andy `Ace' Nowacki Post Office''. 
Introduced on June 13, 2019, by Rep. David P. Joyce.
    H.R. 3305, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2509 George Mason Drive in Virginia 
Beach, Virginia, as the ``Ryan Keith Cox Post Office 
Building''. Introduced June 18, 2019, by Rep. Elaine G. Luria.
    H.R. 3314, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1750 McCulloch Boulevard North in 
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, as the ``Lake Havasu City Combat 
Veterans Memorial Post Office Building''. Introduced on June 
18, 2019, by Rep. Paul A. Gosar.
    H.R. 3317, To permit the Scipio A. Jones Post Office in 
Little Rock, Arkansas, to accept and display a portrait of 
Scipio A. Jones, and for other purposes. Introduced on June 18, 
2019, by Rep. French J. Hill.
    H.R. 3329, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 5186 Benito Street in Montclair, 
California, as the ``Paul Eaton Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on June 18, 2019, by Rep. Norma J. Torres.
    H.R. 3680, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 415 North Main Street in Henning, 
Tennessee, as the ``Paula Croom Robinson and Judy Spray 
Memorial Post Office Building''. Introduced on July 10, 2019, 
by Rep. David Kustoff.
    H.R. 3847, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 117 West Poythress Street in 
Hopewell, Virginia, as the ``Reverend Curtis West Harris Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on July 18, 2019, by Rep. Donald 
A. McEachin.
    H.R. 3870, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 511 West 165th Street in New York, 
New York, as the ``Normandia Maldonado Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on July 22, 2019, by Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
    H.R. 4034, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 602 Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, 
Washington, as the ``John Henry Turpin Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on July 25, 2019, by Rep. Derek Kilmer.
    H.R. 4200, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 321 South 1st Street in Montrose, 
Colorado, as the ``Sergeant David Kinterknecht Post Office''. 
Introduced on August 20, 2019, by Rep. Scott R. Tipton.
    H.R. 4279, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 445 Main Street in Laceyville, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Melinda Gene Piccotti Post Office''. 
Introduced on September 11, 2019, by Rep. Fred Keller.
    H.R. 4672, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 21701 Stevens Creek Boulevard in 
Cupertino, California, as the ``Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) 
Matthew G. Axelson Post Office Building''. Introduced on 
October 15, 2019, by Rep. Ro Khanna.
    H.R. 4725, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 8585 Criterion Drive in Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, as the ``Chaplain (Capt.) Dale Goetz 
Memorial Post Office Building''. Introduced on October 27, 
2019, by Rep. Doug Lamborn.
    H.R. 4734, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 171 South Maple Street in Dana, 
Indiana, as the ``Ernest `Ernie' T. Pyle Post Office''. 
Introduced on October 18, 2019, by Rep. Larry Bucshon.
    H.R. 4785, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in 
Castroville, Texas, as the ``Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain 
Rairdan Post Office''. Introduced on October 22, 2019, by Rep. 
Will Hurd.
    H.R. 4794, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 8320 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, New 
York, as the ``Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on October 22, 2019, by Rep. Max Rose.
    H.R. 4875, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2201 E. Maple Street in North Canton, 
Ohio, as the ``Lance Cpl. Stacy `Annie' Dryden Post Office''. 
Introduced on October 28, 2019, by Rep. Anthony Gonzalez.
    H.R. 4971, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 15 East Market Street in Leesburg, 
Virginia, as the ``Norman Duncan Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on October 31, 2019, by Rep. Jennifer Wexton.
    H.R. 4975, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1201 Sycamore Square Drive in 
Midlothian, Virginia, as the ``Dorothy Braden Bruce Post Office 
Building. Introduced on November 1, 2019, by Rep. Abigail Davis 
Spanberger.
    H.R. 4981, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2505 Derita Avenue in Charlotte, 
North Carolina, as the ``Julius L. Chambers Civil Rights 
Memorial Post Office''. Introduced on November 15, 2019, by 
Rep. Alma Adams.
    H.R. 5037, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 3703 North Main Street in Farmville, 
North Carolina, as the ``Walter B. Jones, Jr. Post Office''. 
Introduced on November 12, 2019, by Rep. Gregory Murphy.
    H.R. 5062, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 9930 Conroy Windermere Road in 
Windermere, Florida, as the ``Officer Robert German Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on November 13, 2019, by Rep. Val 
Demmigs.
    H.R. 5307, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 115 Nicol Avenue in Thomasville, 
Alabama, as the ``Postmaster Robert Ingram Post Office''. 
Introduced on December 5, 2019, by Rep. Terri A. Sewell.
    H.R. 5317, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 315 Addicks Howell Rd. in Houston, 
Texas, as the ``Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on December 5, 2019, by Rep. Lizzie 
Fletcher.
    H.R. 5384, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 100 Crosby Street in Mansfield, 
Louisiana, as the ``Dr. C.O. Simpkins, Sr., Post Office''. 
Introduced on December 10, 2019, by Rep. Mike Johnson.
    H.R. 5954, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 108 West Maple Street in Holly, 
Michigan, as the ``Holly Veterans Memorial Post Office''.
    Introduced on February 25, 2020, by Rep. Elissa Slotkin S. 
3105, A bill to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in 
Indianapolis, Indiana, as the ``Richard G. Lugar Post Office''. 
Introduced on December 18, 2019, by Sen. Mike Braun.

             G. Postal Naming Measures Passed by the House

    H.R. 3152, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in 
Indianapolis, Indiana, as the ``Richard G. Lugar Post Office''. 
Introduced on June 6, 2019, by Rep. Andre Carson.
    H.R. 3976, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 12711 East Jefferson Avenue in 
Detroit, Michigan, as the ``Aretha Franklin Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on July 25, 2019, by Rep. Brenda L. 
Lawrence. Passed by the Senate on December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 4988, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 14 Walnut Street in Bordentown, New 
Jersey, as the ``Clara Barton Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on November 5, 2019 by Rep. Andy Kim. Passed the 
Senate on December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 5123, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 476 East Main Street in Galesburg, 
Illinois, as the ``Senior Airman Daniel Miller Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on November 15, 2019 by Rep. Cheri 
Bustos. Passed by the December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 5451, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 599 East Genesse Street in 
Fayetteville, New York, as the ``George H. Bacel Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on December 17, 2019 by Rep. John Katko. 
Passed the Senate on December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 5562, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4650 East Rosedale Street in Fort 
Worth, Texas, as the ``Dionne Phillips Bagsby Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on January 8, 2020 by Rep. Marc Veasey.
    H.R. 5597, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 305 Northwest 5th Street in Oklahoma 
City, Oklahoma, as the ``Clara Luper Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on January 14, 2020, by Rep. Kendra Horn. Passed the 
Senate December 17, 2020.
    H.R. 5987, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 909 West Holiday Drive in Fate, 
Texas, as the ``Ralph Hall Post Office''. Introduced on 
February 27, 2020 by Rep. John Ratcliffe.
    H.R. 5972, Mary Ann Shadd Cary Post Office Dedication Act. 
Introduced on February 26, 2020 by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester. 
Passed the Senate December 18, 2020. Passed the Senate December 
18, 2020.
    H.R. 5983, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4150 Chicago Avenue in Riverside, 
California, as the ``Woodie Rucker-Hughes Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on February 26, 2020 by Rep. Mark 
Takano. Passed the Senate December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 5988, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2600 Wesley Street in Greenville, 
Texas, as the ``Audie Murphy Post Office Building''. Introduced 
on February 27, 2020, by Rep. John Ratcliffe.
    H.R. 6016, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 14955 West Bell Road in Surprise, 
Arizona, as the ``Marc Lee Memorial Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on February 28, 2020. Passed the Senate December 18, 
2020.
    H.R. 6161, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1585 Yanceyville Street in 
Greensboro, North Carolina, as the ``J. Howard Coble Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on March 9, 2020 by Rep. Mark 
Walker. Passed the Senate December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 6418, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 509 Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, 
Alabama, as the ``William `Jack' Jackson Edwards III Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on March 31, 2020 by Rep. Bradley 
Byrne. Passed the Senate December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 7088, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 111 James Street in Reidsville, 
Georgia, as the ``Senator Jack Hill Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on June 4, 2020 by Rep. Earl L. ``Buddy'' Carter. 
Passed the Senate December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 7502, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 101 South 16th Street in Clarinda, 
Iowa, as the ``Jessie Field Shambaugh Post Office Building''. 
Introduced on July 9, 2020 by Rep. Cynthia Axne. Passed the 
Senate December 18, 2020.
    H.R. 7810, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 3519 East Walnut Street in Pearland, 
Texas, as the ``Tom Reid Post Office Building''. Introduced on 
July 29, 2020 by Rep. Pete Olson. Passed the Senate December 
18, 2020.
    H.R. 8611, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4755 Southeast Dixie Highway in Port 
Salerno, Florida, as the ``Joseph Bullock Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on October 16, 2020 by Rep. Brian Mast. 
Passed the Senate December 18, 2020.
    S. 3257, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 311 West Wisconsin Avenue in 
Tomahawk, Wisconsin, as the ``Einar `Sarge' H. Ingman, Jr. Post 
Office Building''. Introduced on February 5, 2020 by Senator 
Ron Johnson. Passed the House December 10, 2020.
    S. 3461, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2600 Wesley Street in Greenville, 
Texas, as the ``Audie Murphy Post Office Building''. Introduced 
on March 12, 2020 by Senator John Cornyn. Passed the House 
December 10, 2020.
    S. 3462, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 909 West Holiday Drive in Fate, 
Texas, as the ``Ralph Hall Post Office''. Introduced on March 
12, 2020 by Senator John Cornyn. Passed the House December 10, 
2020.
    S. 4126, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 104 East Main Street in Port 
Washington, Wisconsin, as the ``Joseph G. Demler Post Office''. 
Introduced on July 1, 2020 by Senator Ron Johnson. Passed the 
House December 10, 2020.
    S. 4684, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 440 Arapahoe Street in Thermopolis, 
Wyoming, as the ``Robert L. Brown Post Office''. Introduced on 
September 24, 2020 by Senator Michael Enzi. Passed the House 
December 10, 2020.

          H. Postal Naming Measures Approved by the Committee

    H.R. 2277, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1715 Linnerud Drive in Sun Prairie, 
Wisconsin, as the ``Fire Captain Cory Barr Post Office 
Building''. Introduced on April 10, 2019, by Rep. Mark Pocan.
    H.R. 5061, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 42 Main Street in Slatersville, Rhode 
Island, as the ``Specialist Matthew R. Turcotte Post Office''. 
Introduced on November 13, 2019, by Rep. David N. Cicillini.

         V. SUMMARY OF OVERSIGHT PLAN AND CORRESPONDING ACTIONS

    Pursuant to Rule X, Clause 2(d) of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives the Committee adopted an oversight plan at 
the beginning of the 116th Congress. The plan consisted of 
topics designated for investigation, evaluation, and review by 
then-Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, in consultation with then-
Ranking Member Jim Jordan, other Committee Members, and other 
Committees.
    The plan highlighted intended subjects of oversight, 
including:
           Health Care, including the costs of 
        prescription drugs, the opioid crisis, program 
        integrity the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
        Services (CMS) as well as barriers to health care 
        access with particular attention to the ability of 
        communities of color, women, and the LGBTQ population 
        to access the full continuum of health care services;
           Executive Branch ethics, transparency, and 
        accountability, including possible self-dealing and 
        violations of ethics laws by senior Executive Branch 
        officials, numerous violations of the Hatch Act by 
        senior White House and agency officials, reports that 
        White House and other Administration officials are 
        obstructing GAO and refusing to cooperate with agency 
        Inspectors General, noncompliance with the Presidential 
        Records Act, implementation of open government laws, 
        and allegations of whistleblower retaliation;
           The President's business interests, 
        conflicts of interest, and emoluments, including 
        President Trump's failure to divest himself of his 
        myriad business interests, the President's failure to 
        report on his annual Financial Disclosure payments and 
        liabilities to silence women alleging extramarital 
        affairs during the 2016 presidential campaign, the 
        President's position as both landlord and tenant in the 
        General Services Administration's lease of the Old Post 
        Office Building to the President's company for the 
        Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the 
        GSA's management of a decade-long procurement for a new 
        headquarters building for the FBI to replace the J. 
        Edgar Hoover Building, and the Administration's 
        excessive travel spending;
           Security clearances, the White House's and 
        Transition Team's disregard for established procedures 
        for safeguarding classified information;
           Voting rights, voter suppression, and 
        election security, including laws and policies that 
        have hindered voting, the security of election 
        infrastructure, and efforts by federal, state, and 
        local governments to ensure elections and election 
        systems resilient against intrusion or interference;
           Environment and public health, including 
        climate change and the federal government's response to 
        Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. 
        Virgin Islands in 2017;
           Immigration, including the Trump 
        Administration policies that have separated thousands 
        of children from their families at the southern border 
        as well as Administration's policies relating to the 
        immigration detention system, visa and asylum 
        applications;
           Workers' rights and protections, including 
        the Administration's efforts to weaken collective 
        bargaining rights and employee protections affecting 
        federal workers, the impact of federal agency 
        vacancies, and agencies' handling of allegations of 
        harassment or bullying;
           Homeland and national security, including 
        efforts by former National Security Advisor Michael 
        Flynn and others within the White House to rush the 
        transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to 
        Saudi Arabi, management issues at TSA, and Secret 
        Service operations;
           Criminal justice reform, including staffing, 
        resources, and facilities management challenges at the 
        Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons;
           Census, including preparations for the 
        Decennial Census in 2020 and the Trump Administration's 
        efforts to add a citizenship question to the Census;
           Postal Service, including the Postal 
        Service's deepening financial challenges while 
        guaranteeing universal service;
           Cybersecurity and privacy, including 
        cyberattacks affecting federal agencies and the private 
        sector, and federal agencies' compliance with Federal 
        Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA);
           Consumer protection, including whether 
        federal consumer watchdog agencies are meeting their 
        statutory responsibilities to protect consumers;
           Student loans and for-profit colleges, 
        including the Department of Education's oversight of 
        those industries;
           Title IX and campus sexual assault, 
        including the Department of Education's proposed 
        regulations; and
           Government contracting, including 
        contracting by agencies identified by GAO as ``high 
        risks,'' to ensure there is appropriate management of 
        taxpayer funds and agencies are effectively using 
        acquisition strategies.
    The Committee's oversight of these and many other issues in 
the 116th Congress resulted in substantial cost savings for 
American taxpayers and improvement in the effectiveness and 
efficiency of our government. The following highlights the 
major oversight accomplishments of the Committee in the 116th 
Congress.

                           A. Full Committee


               I. HEALTH CARE AND INCREASING DRUG PRICES

    Drug Prices. In January 2019, the Committee launched an 
investigation into the pharmaceutical industry's pricing and 
other business practices. The purpose of the investigation was 
to determine why drug companies are increasing prices so 
dramatically, how drug companies are using the proceeds, and 
what steps can be taken to reduce prescription drug prices. The 
investigation focused on drugs that are among the costliest to 
Medicare Part D, including cancer drugs, best-selling 
blockbuster drugs, and treatments for rare diseases.
    During this investigation, the Committee requested 
documents and information from 13 companies and held five 
hearings on January 29, 2019, May 16, 2019, July 26, 2019, 
September 30, 2020, and October 1, 2020. At the January 29, 
2019, hearing, the Committee heard from experts about 
strategies drug companies use to preserve market share and 
protect pricing power. At the May 16, 2019, hearing, the 
Committee examined drug manufacturer Gilead's pricing for the 
HIV prevention drug Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis 
(PrEP). The hearing examined the significant taxpayer funding 
that led to the development of Truvada for PrEP. At the July 
26, 2019, hearing, the Committee heard from patients about the 
devastating personal, financial, and health impacts of high 
drug prices on American families. Finally, at the September 30 
and October 1, 2020, hearings, the Committee heard testimony 
from senior executives of six pharmaceutical companies.
    The Committee released five staff reports on September 30, 
2020, and October 1, 2020. The Committee's investigation 
revealed the extent to which drug companies take advantage of 
U.S. law and regulations and the need for systemic reforms such 
as H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, 
which would allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug 
companies for lower prices.
    Opioids. On January 10, 2019, Chairman Cummings and 
Committee Member Rep. Mark DeSaulnier requested that DOJ 
produce documents relating to its decision not to pursue felony 
charges against Purdue executives for misleading marketing of 
OxyContin. On March 21, 2019, Chairman Cummings and Rep. 
DeSaulnier wrote to Purdue requesting documents relating to 
reports that members of the Sackler family sought to drive up 
sales of OxyContin and other addictive painkillers while 
simultaneously expanding the market for medications to treat 
addiction, even after the 2007 settlement. The Committee 
obtained thousands of documents in response to its request. On 
October 27, 2020, Chairwoman Maloney and Rep. DeSaulnier 
released documents showing members of the Sackler family 
pushing Purdue executives to flood the market with OxyContin 
even following the 2007 settlement with DOJ.
    The Committee held a hearing on December 17, 2020, to 
examine the role of Purdue and members of the Sackler family in 
fueling the opioid epidemic. The Committee also held two 
hearings March 7 and May 9, 2019, to receive testimony from the 
Director of ONDCP and examine ONDCP Policy compliance with 
legislation that reauthorized the Office in the 115th Congress.
    Federal Contracting at the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services (CMS). The Committee conducted a joint 
investigation with the House Energy and Commerce Committee and 
the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
Committees concerning CMS Administrator Seema Verma's use of 
taxpayer funded contractors. In September 2020, the committees 
issued a joint staff report revealing abuse of nearly $6 
million in taxpayer funds through Administrator Verma's use of 
approximately two dozen private consultants to boost her 
personal profile. The committees also requested a formal legal 
opinion from GAO as to whether CMS' expenditures violated 
appropriations law.
    Affordable Care Act. The Committee launched a joint inquiry 
with the Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, Ways and 
Means, and Judiciary Committees into the Administration's 
decision to reverse its litigation position in the Texas v. 
California lawsuit and not seek to defend the constitutionality 
of the Affordable Care Act. On July 10, 2019, the Committee 
held a hearing to examine the effects of the Administration's 
position in Texas.
    Women's Reproductive and LGBTQ Rights. During the 116th 
Congress, the Committee conducted oversight into administrative 
actions that undermine access to health care for women, LGBTQ 
people, and marginalized communities. For example, the 
Committee sent letters to OMB and Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) concerning its regulatory review of 
the Title X Gag Rule promulgated by HHS, which prohibits 
providers from referring patients for the full range of 
reproductive health care services. The Committee also requested 
documents from HHS concerning the Refusal of Care Rule, which, 
if enforced, would expand the ability of health care providers 
to refuse to provide care to patients on purported religious or 
moral grounds.
    During the 116th Congress, the Committee held multiple 
hearings on administrative actions threatening the health of 
women and LGBTQ people across the United States. On November 
14, 2019, the Committee held a hearing examining how state 
governments are restricting access to comprehensive 
reproductive health care services--including abortion--for 
their residents, and the impact of these restrictions on 
patients and providers in these states. On February 27, 2020, 
the Committee held a hearing on the ways in which religious 
exemptions have been expanded to erode LGBTQ rights and allow 
discrimination against LGBTQ individuals--including in health 
care settings.

     II. EXECUTIVE BRANCH ETHICS, TRANSPARENCY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY

    Compliance with Ethics Laws. The Committee investigated 
possible self-dealing and violations of ethics laws by senior 
Executive Branch officials including Secretary of 
Transportation Elaine Chao, Secretary of the Interior David 
Bernhardt, former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, EPA 
Administrator Andrew Wheeler, former EPA Administrator Scott 
Pruitt, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, among others.
    In February 2019, the Committee launched an investigation 
of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's compliance with the 
Ethics in Government Act. The purpose of the investigation was 
to determine whether Administrator Wheeler had omitted former 
clients from his financial disclosure form. The Ethics in 
Government Act requires senior government officials to list all 
clients from whom they received compensation over $5,000 in the 
two years preceding their government employment. The Committee 
obtained documents from Administrator Wheeler's former client, 
Darling Ingredients, that showed Administrator Wheeler had 
received over $5,000 in compensation for lobbying activities he 
performed for Darling. Administrator Wheeler did not list 
Darling Ingredients as a former client, a clear violation of 
the Ethics in Government Act.
    The Committee also investigated Executive Branch compliance 
with the Ethics in Government Act, regulations issued by OGE, 
Executive Order 13770, and other laws, regulations, and 
guidance. The Committee investigated the use and adherence to 
Executive Branch ethics pledges, as well as the possible misuse 
of the granting of ethics waivers, in the White House and 
across major agencies and offices throughout the Executive 
Branch.
    Hatch Act. The Committee investigated numerous violations 
of the Hatch Act by senior White House and agency officials.
    On June 26, 2019, the Committee held a hearing with Special 
Counsel Henry Kerner on ``Violations of the Hatch Act under the 
Trump Administration.'' The hearing focused on recurrent and 
flagrant violations of the Hatch Act by Counselor to the 
President Kellyanne Conway as well as violations of the Hatch 
Act by other White House officials.
    On September 3, 2020, the Committee requested that OSC 
investigate multiple potential violations of the Hatch Act by 
the Trump Administration during the Republican National 
Convention. In its request, the Committee identified numerous 
potential violations of the Hatch Act, including the Trump 
Administration staging an official pardon and naturalization 
ceremony to collect video for use during the convention, using 
White House grounds for convention speaking engagements, and 
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo engaging in political 
activity while speaking at the convention while on official 
travel abroad. OSC's investigation remains pending.
    Freedom of Information Act. The Committee investigated the 
possible misuse of ``awareness reviews'' at the Department of 
the Interior and EPA as part of their respective Freedom of 
Information Act policies and procedures.
    On March 5, 2019, Chairman Cummings, joined by Senator 
Patrick Leahy, Senator Chuck Grassley, and Senator John Cornyn, 
sent a letter to David Bernhardt, then-Acting Secretary of the 
Department of the Interior, to express significant concern with 
a proposed rule revising the agency's FOIA regulations. The 
Department of the Interior's final rule incorporated many 
changes to address the concerns raise by the joint letter.
    On March 13, 2019, the Committee held a hearing examining 
the compliance of federal agencies with FOIA, including the 
extent to which agencies have implemented the FOIA Improvement 
Act of 2016.
    Federal Records and Transparency. The Committee conducted 
three transcribed interviews with officials at the Department 
of the Interior, including with Chief of Staff Todd Willens, as 
part of investigation into the Department of the Interior's 
practices related to recordkeeping and scheduling of meetings 
with David Bernhardt in his various positions as Deputy 
Secretary, Acting Secretary, and Secretary. The Committee's 
investigation found unexplained inconsistencies, and the 
Department of the Interior changed its processes.
    On November 10, 2020, the Committee also sent letters to 
dozens of federal agencies, offices, and entities reminding 
them of their obligations to preserve documents in accordance 
with the Federal Records Act.
    Presidential Records and Transparency. The Committee 
investigated allegations that White House officials were not 
complying with the Presidential Records Act and allegations 
that White House officials were using personal email accounts, 
text messages, phone-based message applications, or encryption 
software to conduct official business. On July 25, 2019, the 
Committee held a business meeting and voted on a resolution 
authorizing Chairman Elijah E. Cummings to subpoena records 
relating to the Committee's investigation into the use of non-
official electronic messaging accounts by non-career officials 
at the White House
    On November 10, 2020, the Committee also sent a letter to 
White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone reminding him of President 
Trump's obligations to preserve documents and materials in 
accordance with the Presidential Records Act.
    Federal Advisory Committee Act. The Committee is 
investigating, along with the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 
whether three Mar-a-Lago members, Isaac Perlmutter, Dr. Bruce 
Moskowitz, and Marc Sherman, constituted an advisory committee 
under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. In February 2020, 
Committees launched a joint investigation into the potential 
improper influence over the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
by the Mar-a-Lago trio and whether they constituted an advisory 
committee. The Committee has received thousands of pages of 
documents from the Mar-a-Lago trio.

  III. THE PRESIDENT'S BUSINESS INTERESTS, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AND 
                               EMOLUMENTS

    After the election in 2016--but before Donald Trump was 
sworn into office--Republican and Democratic ethics experts 
strongly advised the then-President-elect to fully divest his 
business interests, liquidate his assets, and place the 
proceeds into an independent blind trust. They warned that 
these steps were critical because legitimate concerns would be 
raised about the President's decision-making if he did not 
sufficiently address potential conflicts of interest stemming 
from his financial affairs before assuming office.
    Instead of fully divesting from his sprawling business 
empire, President Trump set up a revocable trust controlled by 
his son Donald Trump, Jr., and Trump Organization Chief 
Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg. He never released tax 
returns or audited financial statements, and he claimed 
publicly that ``the president can't have a conflict of 
interest'' and that ``I'm not going to have anything to do with 
the [Old Post Office] hotel.'' Shortly after taking office, the 
trust was modified to permit President Trump to withdraw income 
from it at any time without disclosure. Rather than isolate 
President Trump from his companies, the trust appeared to 
reinforce President Trump's continued ownership and control 
over his business assets while in office.
    Although presidents and presidential candidates are 
required to disclose financial information under ethics laws 
passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, those laws have 
never before been tested by a president who brings extensive 
and sprawling financial holdings into office.
    Since the beginning of the 116th Congress, Congress has 
considered ethics reforms, including several provisions 
specifically applicable to presidents. Congress introduced a 
series of bills that seek to prevent presidential conflicts of 
interest and self-dealing, and some of those have passed the 
House, but have not been taken up by the Senate.
    To legislate effectively, the Committee's investigations 
have followed three tracks relating to presidential conflicts 
of interest and financial disclosures, presidential contracts 
with the federal government and potential self-dealing, and 
presidential adherence to the Emoluments Clauses. The Committee 
is investigating:
           President Trump's federal financial 
        disclosures to OGE, in order to pass legislation to 
        ensure presidential financial disclosures include 
        sufficiently detailed information to assess potential 
        conflicts of interest, close loopholes in the financial 
        disclosure process, and strengthen OGE;
           President Trump's lease agreement with GSA 
        for the Trump Old Post Office Hotel, in order to pass 
        legislation to ensure that GSA administers federal 
        contracts with the President in a fair and transparent 
        manner, prevent future presidents from engaging in and 
        maintaining self-dealing contracts with the U.S. 
        government, and close loopholes in government 
        contracting; and
           President Trump's receipt of funds from 
        foreign governments, federal officials, or state 
        officials through his business holdings, resulting in 
        the receipt of emoluments. This track is aimed at 
        passing legislation to prohibit taxpayer funds from 
        flowing to the President's businesses, strengthen 
        disclosure requirements to ensure compliance with the 
        Emoluments Clauses, enable Congress to identify 
        noncompliance and conflicts of interest involving 
        foreign governments, and consider other potential 
        remedies for specific conflicts of interests as they 
        are identified.
    Michael Cohen's Role Facilitating Hush Money Payments for 
President Trump. On January 8, 2019, the Committee launched an 
investigation of presidential financial disclosures following 
the conviction and sentencing to prison of President Trump's 
former attorney Michael Cohen for his role in facilitating hush 
money payments to women alleging extramarital affairs on behalf 
of President Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. On 
December 12, 2018, Mr. Cohen was sentenced to three years in 
prison for arranging a $150,000 payment by the National 
Enquirer's parent, American Media, Inc., to Karen McDougal, a 
former model and actress, as part of a so-called ``catch-and-
kill'' to prevent her allegations from being publicly aired, 
and a $130,000 payment made by Mr. Cohen to Stephanie Clifford, 
a/k/a the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, in exchange for 
her entering into a non-disclosure agreement regarding her 
alleged extramarital affair with President Trump.
    Mr. Cohen admitted in open court that he made both hush 
money payments ``in coordination with, and at the direction 
of'' President Trump ``for the principal purpose of influencing 
the election.'' Court documents also showed that Mr. Cohen was 
reimbursed $420,000 by the Trump Organization for these 
payments.
    President Trump's first financial disclosure, filed after 
taking office on June 14, 2017, did not disclose any debt owed 
to Mr. Cohen as a result of his payment to Ms. Clifford. 
However, on May 15, 2018, President Trump disclosed payments to 
Mr. Cohen of ``$100,001-$250,000'' for calendar year 2017.
    On January 8, 2019, the Committee requested documents from 
the White House and the Trump Organization related to the hush 
money payments made by Mr. Cohen. While the White House 
eventually permitted Committee staff to review 30 pages of 
documents in camera, half of these documents were either 
publicly available or entirely redacted and of little 
informational value to the Committee. The Trump Organization 
declined to produce any documents.
    On January 22, 2019, the Committee requested communications 
between the White House or the President's personal 
representatives and OGE regarding the President's belated and 
incomplete acknowledgment of a liability to Mr. Cohen. 
Subsequently, the Committee obtained internal notes of 
discussions before President Trump's May 2018 disclosure was 
filed that appear to show Sheri Dillon, President Trump's 
personal attorney, and Deputy White House Counsel Stefan 
Passantino repeatedly stating to OGE officials that the 
President never owed any money to Mr. Cohen in 2016 and 2017. 
The notes also appear to show that Ms. Dillon told OGE 
officials that the payments to Mr. Cohen were in connection 
with legal services pursuant to a retainer agreement, which she 
refused to provide upon request. Prosecutors later revealed 
that there was in fact no retainer agreement and that the 
payments were ``reimbursement for election-related expenses,'' 
rather than legal expenses.
    On February 27, 2019, the Committee requested transcribed 
interviews with Ms. Dillon and Mr. Passantino in order to 
obtain information related to the hush money payments and their 
representations of those payments to OGE. The White House and 
the Trump Organization both declined to allow either individual 
to appear before the Committee.
    On February 27, 2019, the Committee held a hearing with Mr. 
Cohen, former attorney to President Trump. Mr. Cohen testified 
before the Committee regarding the hush money payments and 
other issues. At the hearing, Mr. Cohen testified that he 
arranged hush money payments to Ms. Clifford and Ms. McDougal 
at the direction of President Trump. Mr. Cohen also testified 
that the President routinely altered the estimated value of his 
assets and liabilities on financial statements--including 
inflating or deflating the value of assets depending on the 
purpose for which he intended to use the statements. Mr. Cohen 
also testified that the President provided financial statements 
with inflated assets to an insurance company. Mr. Cohen further 
testified that President Trump may have deflated certain assets 
to reduce his real estate taxes.
    To corroborate his testimony, Mr. Cohen provided the 
Committee copies of numerous reimbursement checks signed after 
the President took office by President Trump, Donald Trump, 
Jr., and Allen Weisselberg, including checks issued prior to 
the President's 2017 financial disclosure omitting the 
liability. Mr. Cohen also produced to the Committee President 
Trump's ``Statements of Financial Condition'' from 2011 and 
2012, as well as a one-page ``Summary of Net Worth'' from 2013. 
At least two of the documents were prepared by the Mazars USA 
LLP accounting firm, which was reported to have a longstanding 
relationship with the Trump Organization.
    On July 19, 2019, following reports that DOJ had concluded 
its investigation of Michael Cohen and related campaign finance 
violations, and in light of additional evidence showing Mr. 
Cohen's communications with President Trump shortly before Mr. 
Cohen facilitated hush money payments, the Committee wrote to 
Audrey Strauss, the Deputy United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of New York requesting information about the 
status of any criminal investigation of President Trump's role, 
including whether the Department had declined to prosecute the 
President given Department policy despite evidence of guilt. 
Neither the Southern District of New York nor DOJ --to which it 
referred the request--has provided any information the 
Committee in response to its requests.
    Committee's Subpoena to President's Accounting Firm, Mazars 
USA LLP. As the Committee's investigations progressed during 
the 116th Congress, President Trump's longtime accounting firm, 
Mazars USA LLP, emerged as a custodian of documents relevant to 
several investigations. Based on testimony and financial 
statements obtained during the Committee's investigations, the 
Committee has determined that Mazars is in possession of 
documents and information necessary to help the Committee 
define areas that require remedial measures and undertake the 
necessary legislative reforms.
    On March 20, 2019, the Committee sent a letter to Mazars 
requesting financial statements that Mazars prepared for 
President Trump and his businesses for the ten-year period 
spanning from January 1, 2009, to March 20, 2019. The Committee 
also requested documents and communications on how these 
financial statements and other financial disclosures were 
prepared for the same time period.
    On March 27, 2019, outside counsel to Mazars responded 
that, pursuant to the company's legal obligations, Mazars could 
not voluntarily turn over the documents ``unless disclosure is 
made pursuant to, among other things, a Congressional 
subpoena.''
    On April 12, 2019, Chairman Cummings circulated a 
memorandum to Committee Members stating his intent to issue a 
subpoena to Mazars and soliciting Members' views.
    On April 15, 2019, the Committee issued a subpoena to 
Mazars seeking the same categories of documents as the March 
20, 2019, request letter, but narrowing the timeframe from ten 
years to eight years.
    The subpoena consists of four requests, all of which are 
related to the financial statements prepared by Mazars for the 
President and his businesses, and each is designed to help the 
Committee evaluate these financial statements. Request One 
calls for all financial statements created by Mazars for the 
President and certain of his businesses from 2011 to 2018. 
Request Two calls for any engagement letters governing the 
financial statements created from 2011 to 2018. Request Three 
calls for the documents Mazars relied on to create the 
financial statements. Request Four calls for any 
communications, memoranda, or notes in Mazars' possession 
regarding the financial statements, particularly those of 
Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars reported to be in charge of 
President Trump's accounts, and any communication raising 
concerns or red flags.
    On April 22, 2019, President Trump and his businesses filed 
a lawsuit in the D.C. District Court seeking to prevent Mazars 
from complying with the Committee's lawful subpoena.
    On May 20, 2019, the District Court issued a ruling 
upholding the authority of the Oversight Committee to 
investigate issues concerning the President and his companies.
    On October 11, 2019, the Circuit Court of District of 
Columbia upheld the District Court's decision, again ruling in 
favor of the Committee's subpoena.
    After the full D.C. Circuit rejected their petition for en 
banc review, President Trump and his businesses petitioned for 
Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court granted the petition 
and consolidated the case with Trump v. Deutsche Bank et al., 
another case that involves congressional subpoenas for the 
President's financial records.
    On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a decision in 
Trump v. Mazars holding that the President is not above the law 
and announcing a new four-factor standard for evaluating 
congressional subpoenas for the President's personal 
information. The Court vacated the lower court's decision and 
remanded the case to the D.C. Circuit.
    On August 28, 2020, Chairwoman Maloney issued an extensive 
memorandum to Committee Members explaining how the Committee's 
subpoena met the Supreme Court's new test.
    On October 20, 2020, the D.C. Circuit heard re-arguments by 
the Committee and by President Trump on whether the case should 
be remanded to the District Court and whether the D.C. Circuit 
should affirm the District Court's decision upholding the 
subpoena to Mazars.
    To date, the D.C. Circuit has not issued an opinion.
    President Trump's Lease with GSA for D.C. Hotel. The 
Committee investigated the General Services Administration's 
award and management of its federal lease for the Old Post 
Office Building to President Trump and his company, Trump Old 
Post Office LLC. The investigation followed extensive work 
undertaken by then-Ranking Member Cummings to obtain 
information in the 115th Congress after concerns were raised 
that President Trump would continue to receive financial 
benefits while serving in office despite an explicit 
prohibition on elected officials benefiting from a GSA lease 
for federal property. The highly unusual and improper 
arrangement meant that President Trump is effectively on both 
sides of the contract as the landlord and tenant and raised 
concerns about presidential conflicts of interest and undue 
influence over GSA.
    On April 12, 2019, Chairman Cummings and Government 
Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerald E. Connolly sent a 
letter to GSA requesting 14 categories of documents relating to 
the Committee's investigation of the lease and reiterated 
several requests for documents that had been rebuffed by 
General in the 115th Congress.
    In response to the April 12, 2019, letter, GSA provided 
documents that were of little investigative value involving 
topics such as fire alarm testing and art installations. As a 
result, on June 27, 2019, the Subcommittee on Government 
Operations held a hearing with a senior GSA official 
responsible for document production efforts about the lack of 
compliance with the Committee's requests. GSA still did not 
produce any additional documents related to the Old Post Office 
Hotel.
    On August 22, 2019, GSA sent a letter to the Committee 
explaining its decision to withhold several key categories of 
documents requested by the Committee, including financial 
documents and submissions made by President Trump and his 
companies. GSA explained that it deferred to the Trump 
Organization, which through counsel Stefan Passantino, objected 
to the production.
    On April 29, 2020, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney sent a letter to 
GSA demanding full compliance with outstanding document 
requests contained in the Committee's April 12, 2019, letter. 
GSA still has not produced any additional responsive material.
    Other Conflicts and Emoluments. During the 116th Congress, 
the Committee investigated a range of conflicts and emoluments 
involving President Trump and his businesses, including 
spending by federal government agencies at President Trump's 
properties in potential violation of the Constitution's 
Domestic Emoluments Clause.
    In Spring 2019, the Committee began investigating potential 
expenditures by DOD at President Trump's Turnberry golf resort 
in Ayrshire, Scotland. On June 21, 2019, the Committee and 
Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jamie Raskin sent a 
letter to DOD requesting six categories of documents related to 
DOD spending at the Turnberry resort and the use of the nearby 
Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
    On September 10, 2019, the Committee renewed its requests 
in a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper after press 
reports emerged showing that an Air Force crew stopped over at 
the Turnberry resort in March 2019. On September 18, the 
Committee sent a follow-up letter raising concern about the 
lack of compliance by DOD and its refusal to provide any 
communications with outside entities, such as the White House, 
about Trump Turnberry.
    The Committee uncovered at least $184,000 in DOD spending 
at the President's luxury golf resort in Scotland.
    FBI Headquarters Relocation. The Committee, jointly with 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
investigated the Trump Administration's abrupt decision in June 
2017 to abandon a long-term plan developed over multiple 
administrations to move the headquarters of the FBI from its 
current site in Washington, D.C. to a suburban location and 
replace it with a more costly plan to demolish the existing 
building and construct a new facility on the same site. The 
investigation followed the release of a GSA Inspector General 
(IG) report in August 2018 that found that the Trump 
Administration's new plan could cost hundreds of millions of 
dollars more than the previous plan. The report also identified 
a key meeting involving President Trump and GSA Administrator 
Emily Murphy at the White House on January 24, 2018, and 
described Administrator Murphy's testimony about that meeting 
and other communications with the White House as ``incomplete'' 
and potentially misleading.
    On March 6, 2019, the full Committee, the Subcommittee on 
Government Operations, and the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure sent letters to the FBI, GSA, and DOJ requesting 
transcribed interviews, written responses, and documents 
relating to the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters 
project. On May 3, 2019, Committee staff received a briefing by 
the FBI Unit Chief assigned to the Federal Bureau Investigation 
Headquarters relocation project.
    On May 17, 2019, the Committee and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure sent a letter to the DOJ IG 
requesting a comprehensive review of decision-making at DOJ and 
the FBI related to the FBI headquarters project. On July 2, 
2019, the Office of the Inspector General wrote to the 
Committees announcing that it was initiating a review of the 
planning for a future FBI headquarters facility.
    On June 27, 2019, the Subcommittee on Government Operations 
held a hearing that examined, among other topics, the FBI and 
GSA lack of compliance with the Committees' requests for 
information on the FBI headquarters project.
    On July 24, 2019, the Oversight and Reform Committee and 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a 
transcribed interview of Richard Haley, II, the former 
Assistant Director of Finance and Facilities at the FBI, 
regarding the FBI headquarters project.
    On January 9, 2020, FBI staff met with Committee staff 
regarding the Bureau's lack of responsiveness to the 
Committee's document requests. However, since that meeting, the 
FBI still has not produced a single document.
    Compliance by the FBI, DOJ, and GSA with Committee requests 
has been woefully inadequate. For instance, following the 
Subcommittee's hearing focusing on those agencies' lack of 
compliance, Members submitted Questions for the Record, 
including to the FBI Assistant Director for Congressional 
Affairs. The FBI then took nearly eight months to respond to 
those questions, and even then, the agency failed to provide 
adequate answers.
    None of the agencies have produced key decision-making 
documents that the investigating committees had identified as 
priorities. FBI officials have suggested that no such documents 
exist given the nature of the planning and decision-making for 
the project. If accurate, the Committee is deeply troubled that 
such a significant decision, which could directly impact the 
FBI's critical mission and affect placement of thousands of FBI 
employees and billions of dollars in government expenditures, 
would be made without any paperwork explaining or memorializing 
such a decision.
    The Committee's requests remain unfulfilled despite 
extensive outreach from staff and accommodations. As of 
December 2020, the Administration has not announced a 
comprehensive plan for addressing the FBI's aging 
infrastructure and need for a modern facility.

                        IV. SECURITY CLEARANCES

    During the 116th Congress, the Committee reviewed the 
security clearance process at the White House and the Trump 
Transition Team in response to grave breaches of national 
security at the highest levels of the Administration, including 
by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and others. 
In addition, the Committee reviewed the Trump Administration's 
failure to comply with the Securely Expediting Clearances 
Through Reporting Transparency Act of 2018 (SECRET Act), which 
required the White House to submit a report to Congress by 
August 20, 2018 that ``explains the process for conducting and 
adjudicating security clearance investigations for personnel of 
the Executive Office of the President, including personnel of 
the White House Office.''
    On March 23, 2019, White House Personnel Security Office 
employee Tricia Newbold came forward at great personal risk to 
expose grave failures of the White House security clearance 
system. After receiving information from Ms. Newbold, the 
Committee conducted transcribed interviews of current and 
former White House officials and received briefings from DOD, 
the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
(DNI) and OPM.
    The Committee's investigation determined that the Trump 
Administration has made the White House security clearance 
process less safe. The Committee's investigation was able to 
determine that the Trump Administration's own written documents 
about security clearances do not accurately represent its 
practices.

       V. VOTING RIGHTS, VOTER SUPPRESSION, AND ELECTION SECURITY

    During the 116th Congress, the Committee investigated 
specific allegations of voter suppression in Georgia, Texas, 
and Kansas.
    On March 6, 2019, the Committee launched an investigation 
into reports of serious problems impacting people's ability to 
register and vote in Georgia. The Committee requested documents 
from Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State 
Brad Raffensperger related to the state's cancellation of voter 
registrations, the closing of polling sites, then-Secretary of 
State Kemp's conflicts of interest while running for Governor, 
and Mr. Kemp's unfounded claim that the Democratic Party 
attempted to hack state voter registration systems. Although 
the Committee received thousands of pages of documents from the 
Secretary of State's Office, the Governor's Office, and 
Governor Kemp, approximately 99% of these documents were court 
filings, news clippings, and other already publicly available 
documents. The Secretary of State and Governor's Office 
acknowledged withholding more than 1,400 responsive documents 
from the Committee--including emails involving Mr. Kemp.
    On March 28, 2019, the Committee wrote to Texas Attorney 
General Ken Paxton and Texas Acting Secretary of State David 
Whitley requesting communications relating to a January 2019 
advisory from Mr. Whitley claiming that 95,000 registered 
voters in Texas may not be U.S. citizens and that 58,000 of 
these individuals may have ``voted in one or more Texas 
elections.'' The advisory warned that the Secretary of State 
had referred these individuals to the state Attorney General 
for criminal prosecution. In response to the Committee's 
request, the state agencies withheld most responsive documents, 
citing inapplicable state public records laws and ongoing 
litigation, and claiming erroneously that the Committee lacks 
jurisdiction to investigate voter suppression in Texas.
    On March 28, 2019, the Committee launched an investigation 
into the decision to move the only polling site in Dodge City, 
Kansas outside the city limits--and more than a mile from the 
nearest bus station--prior to the 2018 election. Dodge City is 
one of the few cities in Kansas with a majority Latino 
population, and Latinos' historical support for Democratic 
candidates was expected to be a factor in the tight race for 
Governor in 2018. The Committee requested and received 
communications from Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab and 
Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox, who reportedly made the decision 
to move the polling site. Committee staff also interviewed Ms. 
Cox by phone.
    On February 25, 2020, the Committee issued a memorandum of 
findings resulting from its investigation in conjunction with a 
full Committee hearing on ``Voter Suppression in Minority 
Communities: Learning from the Past to Protect Our Future.'' 
Despite unacceptable stonewalling from some of the states the 
Committee investigated, Committee staff reviewed hundreds of 
thousands of documents and confirmed that state and local 
officials took steps to add barriers to individuals seeking to 
exercise their right to vote.
    The full Committee worked with the Subcommittee on Civil 
Rights and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on National 
Security in support of those Subcommittees' oversight of voting 
rights and election security issues.

                   VI. ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH

    Disaster Response in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin 
Islands: The Committee investigated the federal government's 
response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which struck Puerto Rico 
and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017. In May 2019, all 
Democratic Members of the Committee sent a letter to the White 
House seeking documents regarding the Trump Administration's 
abominable response to those storms.
    Contemporaneously, independent investigations also 
confirmed the Committee's concerns about the federal 
government's response. The DHS IG issued a report finding that 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lacked a 
coherent strategy for using advanced contracts to procure goods 
and services critical to response and recovery efforts in 
Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. The IG also released 
another report finding that there were serious problems with 
the actions of FEMA in distributing commodities in the 
aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma.
    The Committee, along with the Small Business Committee 
Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 
investigated reports that disaster-relief supplies remained in 
a warehouse in Ponce for more than two years rather than being 
distributed to families in need. The Committee sent letters to 
the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, the Puerto Rico 
Emergency Management Agency (PREMA), and FEMA. The Committee 
sent the letters after Members visited Puerto Rico as part of a 
congressional delegation to survey Puerto Rico's painstaking 
progress in recovering from the 2017 hurricanes and to 
investigate damage from recent earthquakes. Despite significant 
delay, PREMA recently started producing documents to the 
Committee.
    Fossil Fuels. The full Committee and the Subcommittee on 
Environment investigated efforts by Marathon Petroleum 
Corporation, trade associations, and front groups funded by 
fossil fuel interests to roll back the Obama Administration's 
Clean Cars rule.
    Pebble Mine Project. The Committee, along with the 
Subcommittee on Environment and Rep. Jackie Speier, called on 
the IGs at DOD and the U.S. Army to investigate the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers' environmental review of the Pebble Limited 
Partnership's dredge-and-fill permit application under Section 
404 of the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental 
Policy Act for the proposed Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, 
Alaska.

                            VII. IMMIGRATION

    Immigrant Child Separations. In the 116th Congress, the 
Committee continued to investigate Trump Administration 
policies that separated thousands of children from their 
families at the southern border.
    On February 26, 2019, following unanswered document 
requests to DOJ, DHS, and HHS, the Committee issued subpoenas 
to the three agencies to compel production of information on 
separated immigrant children and their parents. After issuing 
those subpoenas, the Committee obtained new information about 
at least 2,648 children who were separated from their parents 
under the Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance Policy.
    On July 12, 2019, the Committee released a staff report 
based on analysis of this information, entitled ``Child 
Separations by the Trump Administration.'' The Committee also 
held a hearing that day with experts and agency Inspectors 
General. The Committee held a second hearing on July 18, 2019, 
with Acting Secretary of DHS Kevin McAleenan.
    Immigration Detention. The Committee investigated the 
development and impact of Administration policies and practices 
relating to the immigration detention system and related issues 
involving oversight of ICE, Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP), and other agencies.
    On July 10, 2019, the Committee launched an investigation 
into the Trump Administration's use of for-profit contractors 
to detain tens of thousands of immigrants. The Committee sent 
requests for documents to ICE and two for-profit contractors 
that operate ICE detention facilities, CoreCivic and GEO Group. 
The Committee's investigation followed a series of troubling 
DHS IG reports showing health and safety violations at DHS 
facilities and rising costs to U.S. taxpayers for detention 
contracts, as well as reports that adults and children had died 
in DHS custody. Also, in July 2019, the full Committee and 
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held hearings 
examining overcrowded conditions in immigration detention 
facilities.
    In August and September 2019, the Committee sent bipartisan 
staff delegations across the country to conduct oversight 
inspections of DHS immigration detention facilities. Committee 
staff inspected 22 DHS facilities in six states, including 12 
detention centers run by ICE and for-profit contractors, seven 
Border Patrol stations, and three ports of entry operated by 
CBP.
    As part of the Committee's investigation into for-profit 
contractors, Committee staff reviewed tens of thousands of 
pages of detention contracts, audit reports, detainee death 
reports, detention policies, policy waivers, and emails.
    During the coronavirus pandemic, the Committee and the 
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties requested 
information on the pandemic's impact on immigration detainees 
and held a Member briefing with agency leadership.
    On September 24, 2020, the Committee issued a staff report 
with findings from these investigations, entitled ``The Trump 
Administration's Mistreatment of Detained Immigrants: Deaths 
and Deficient Medical Care by For-Profit Detention 
Contractors.'' As part of this report, the Committee released 
documents produced by ICE and the detention contractors, 
showing a widespread failure to provide necessary medical care 
to detainees with serious and chronic medical conditions as 
well as critical medical staff shortages. The Committee found 
that immigrants in ICE custody also face serious risks due to 
deficient sanitation practices and poor handling of infectious 
diseases. Finally, the report noted that ICE has routinely 
ignored legal requirements to release investigative reports on 
detainee deaths.
    Customs and Border Protection. In July 2019, the Committee 
began investigating racist, sexist, and xenophobic comments 
relating to immigrants and Members of Congress made by 
employees of CBP in secret Facebook groups. Despite 
unprecedented obstruction and stonewalling by CBP, the 
Committee has received final disposition documents in 110 
cases. In July 2020, the Committee issued a public statement 
expressing concern about CBP's ongoing obstruction and the 
extent of its redactions. The Committee also publicly released 
a document showing that an employee's discipline was reduced 
from a termination to a seven-day suspension, raising concerns 
that CBP was not upholding appropriate penalties for its 
employee's misconduct.
    In October 2020, the Committee released a memo notifying 
Committee Members of the Chair's intent to issue a subpoena on 
this matter. The memorandum outlined how CBP significantly 
reduced the punishment of several of its agents while at the 
same time shielding them from congressional oversight. In 
November 2020, the Committee issued a subpoena for CBP to 
produce complete and unredacted copies of all documents related 
to these internal investigations.

                 VIII. WORKERS' RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS

    Early in the 116th Congress, the Committee worked to 
prevent a potential crisis at the Merit Systems Protection 
Board (MSPB)--a vacant Board without any Members. On January 7, 
2017, the MSPB, a small agency established by Congress to 
protect merit principles and help ensure a nonpartisan federal 
workforce, began operating with two vacancies on its three-
member board, leaving it without a quorum. The sole remaining 
member of the MSPB had a term that was scheduled to expire on 
February 28, 2019. On February 25, 2019, the House passed the 
MSPB Temporary Term Extension Act, a bill offered by Chairman 
Cummings and Chairman Connolly to temporarily extend the lone 
member's term for one more year. The Senate failed to debate or 
vote on the MSPB Temporary Term Extension Act.
    On February 28, 2019, the Subcommittee on Government 
Operations held a hearing to review the issues of the MSPB and 
examine whether a short-term legislative fix should be acted on 
by Congress to ensure the MSPB continues to operate. At the 
hearing, the Committee heard testimony from Mark Robbins, the 
sole remaining member of the MSPB.
    On June 20, 2019, Chairman Connolly introduced the Interim 
Stay Authority to Protect Whistleblowers Act (H.R. 2530), which 
would allow the general counsel at the MSPB to act similarly to 
a member of the MSBP board when there is not a quorum and stay 
some adverse actions against federal employees.
    The Committee also investigated the Trump Administration's 
attacks on Federal Unions and collective bargaining, and the 
failure of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (Authority). 
Under the Trump appointed MSPB Chairman Colleen Duffy Kiko, the 
Authority exhibited unprecedented anti-union bias. On June 5, 
2019, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing 
to examine federal-labor management relations and policies of 
the Authority. At the hearing, the Committee rebuked Chairman 
Kiko for drafting rogue, unfounded legal opinions that ignored 
congressional intent and DOJ precedent.
    In July 2020, in the aftermath of continued whistleblower 
protection violations by the administration, Chairman Connolly 
and Chairwoman Maloney introduced the Merit Systems Protection 
Board Empowerment Act of 2020. This legislation would 
reauthorize the MSPB for five years beginning in 2021 and 
provide it certain other authorities to survey federal 
employees and require training in whistleblower protections.
    In October 2020, President Trump introduced an executive 
order (EO 13957) creating a new excepted service schedule for 
federal employees meant to target civil servants hired because 
of their merit and expertise. The Government Operations 
Subcommittee sent a letter to the OPM and the OMB opening an 
investigation in the origins of the executive order. Chairman 
Connolly and Chairwoman Maloney introduced the Saving the Civil 
Service Act (H.R. 8687) block the executive order and return 
employees to their original civil service classifications--with 
appropriate protections from removal. The Subcommittee also 
worked with GAO on this matter and sent a series of 50+ letters 
to federal agencies requesting information on attempts to 
implement the EO.

                   IX. HOMELAND AND NATIONAL SECURITY

    Management of the Transportation Security Administration 
(TSA). In January 2019, the Committee launched robust oversight 
of recommendations to address security vulnerabilities at TSA 
made by the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), the GAO, and 
TSA's own internal testing teams.
    On January 22, 2019, Chairman Cummings, along with Chairman 
Thompson of the Committee on Homeland Security, hosted a 
classified Member briefing with TSA Administrator Pekoske and 
William Russell of GAO. On June 25, 2019, the Committee held a 
hearing entitled ``Identifying, Resolving, and Preventing 
Vulnerabilities in TSA's Security Operations'' to examine TSA's 
failure to address vulnerabilities and outstanding 
recommendations issued by GAO, the DHS OIG, and TSA's own 
internal inspectors as well as the diversion of TSA personnel 
to the southern border. At the hearing, the Committee heard 
testimony from David P. Pekoske, TSA Administrator and Senior 
Official Performing the Duties of DHS Deputy Secretary; Charles 
M. Johnson, Jr., from the GAO; and Don Bumgardner from the DHS 
OIG.
    On September 25, 2010, the Committee hosted a second 
classified Member briefing to continue the examination of 
unresolved security vulnerabilities. During the course of the 
investigation, the Committee also received regular bipartisan 
staff briefings from the DHS OIG, GAO, and TSA regarding TSA's 
security operations.
    The Committee's investigation demonstrated the need for 
H.R. 3469, the Covert Testing and Risk Mitigation Improvement 
Act of 2019, which would establish standards for the covert 
testing processes TSA uses to evaluate its aviation security 
operations and require that TSA track and report progress 
toward mitigation of vulnerabilities in its security 
operations. The bill was introduced by Chairman Cummings and 
Chairman Thompson of the Committee on Homeland Security.
    The Committee also continued its oversight of the agency's 
response to whistleblower claims and personnel issues. In 
addition, the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the 
Committee on Homeland Security initiated a joint examination of 
TSA's anti-harassment and Equal Employment Opportunity policies 
and procedures.
    The Committee's work during the 116th and prior Congresses 
demonstrated the need for legislation, such as H.R. 1140, The 
Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act of 2020, to 
increase workplace rights and protections for TSA personnel.
    Management of the Coast Guard. Over two years ago, then-
Ranking Member Cummings and then-Ranking Member Thompson of the 
Committee on Homeland Security, in consultation with Rep. Joe 
Courtney, launched an investigation to examine how the Coast 
Guard and Coast Guard Academy managed and responded to 
allegations and findings of harassment, bullying, and 
retaliation. In the course of the investigation, the Committee 
reviewed thousands of pages of documents and information, 
conducted multiple interviews with Coast Guard personnel, 
received numerous staff briefings, and sent a bipartisan staff 
delegation to the Coast Guard Academy.
    On December 11, 2019, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and 
Civil Liberties and the Committee on Homeland Security 
Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security examined 
the findings of the Committees' investigation at a joint 
subcommittee hearing entitled ``Righting the Ship: The Coast 
Guard Must Improve its Processes for Addressing Harassment, 
Bullying, and Retaliation.'' At the hearing, the Committees 
heard testimony from Coast Guard Vice Admiral Michael 
McAllister, Lieutenant Commander Kimberly Young-McLear, and DHS 
Deputy Assistant Inspector General Jackson Eaton. Also on 
December 11, 2019, the Committees issued a majority staff 
report, entitled ``Righting the Ship: The Coast Guard Must 
Improve its Processes for Addressing Harassment, Bullying, and 
Retaliation,'' which set forth the findings of the Committees' 
joint investigation.
    In October 2020, the Committees received correspondence 
from Admiral Karl Schultz, Coast Guard Commandant, stating that 
the Coast Guard had implemented all recommendations set forth 
in the 2019 ``Righting the Ship'' staff report.
    The Committees' investigation revealed the need for H.R. 
3488, the Coast Guard Academy Improvement Act, which would 
increase diversity and enhance cultural competency within the 
Coast Guard Academy.
    Saudi Nuclear Deal. In 2017, during the 115th Congress, 
after learning of allegations of efforts by former National 
Security Advisor Michael Flynn and others within the White 
House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear 
technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the Atomic 
Energy Act and without review by Congress as required by law, 
then-Ranking Member Cummings began an investigation, which the 
Committee continued during the 116th Congress. The Committee 
has sought information about the actions of former National 
Security Advisor Flynn in these efforts, and the role of IP3 
International, a private company that assembled a consortium of 
U.S. companies seeking to build nuclear plants in Saudi Arabia 
under this plan.
    On February 19, 2019, the Committee issued the first 
interim staff report on this issue entitled, ``Whistleblowers 
Raise Grave Concerns with Trump Administration's Efforts to 
Transfer Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia.'' The 
staff report detailed disclosures from multiple whistleblowers 
who came forward to raise concerns about efforts inside the 
White House to rush a plan to transfer nuclear technology, 
despite the Saudis' refusal to commit to using this technology 
only for peaceful purposes.
    During the 116th Congress, the Committee sent numerous 
letters requesting documents and interviews to the White House, 
the Departments of Commerce, DOD, Energy, State, the Treasury, 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, IP3, and several other entities 
including private companies. The Committee obtained more than 
60,000 pages of documents, but was stonewalled by the White 
House and other agencies.
    In July 2019, the Committee issued a second interim staff 
report on this matter chronicling the results of the 
investigation as of that time.
    Secret Service Operations and Travel. During the 116th 
Congress, the Committee continued to conduct oversight of 
Secret Service operations, especially in anticipation of the 
highly demanding 2020 presidential campaign.
    On April 4, 2019, following a security incident at 
President Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort, the Secret Service 
provided a classified bipartisan Member briefing on its 
operations and the President's security. The Secret Service 
provided another classified bipartisan staff briefing on its 
operations and the President's security on July 25, 2019.
    The Committee also investigated the President's and his 
family's frequent travel and the impact on the Secret Service. 
On February 12, 2020, Chairwoman Maloney and Committee Member 
Rep. Jackie Speier sent a letter to the Secret Service 
requesting comprehensive information on government expenditures 
at President Trump's properties following reports that the 
Secret Service was charged nightly rates as high as $650 per 
night. The Committee's interest in this matter and a full 
accounting of Secret Service spending at Trump properties 
remains ongoing. To date, the Committee has received only 86 
documents that were previously released to the public pursuant 
to FOIA, as well as answers to four written questions.

                       X. CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

    The Committee conducted oversight of the federal Bureau of 
Prisons (BOP) and other agencies administering the criminal 
justice system and how well they were implementing programs to 
help incarcerated persons transition back into society, reduce 
recidivism, and collateral consequences to incarceration. The 
purpose of this investigation was to investigate systemic 
racial bias and unequal treatment throughout our nation's 
criminal justice system and provide oversight into legislation 
to help address these issues. The Committee examined staffing, 
resources, available programming, and facilities conditions.
    On September 27, 2019, Committee staff held a bipartisan 
briefing on BOP reentry programs with the Administrative Office 
of U.S. Courts, and on October 2, 2019, Committee staff held a 
bipartisan briefing on reentry programs with BOP.
    From October 8 through October 9, 2019, the Committee led 
staff delegations to BOP correction facilities--FCC Florence in 
Colorado and FCC Hazelton in West Virginia--to investigate the 
efficacy of federal reentry programs and speak with 
incarcerated persons about conditions within facilities.

                               XI. CENSUS

    In January 2019, the Committee launched an investigation 
into preparations for the 2020 Census as well as political 
interference by the Trump Administration. The purpose of this 
investigation was to provide robust oversight to ensure that 
the Census Bureau was ready and able to conduct a full, 
accurate, and fair census. The Committee examined Census 
planning, preparations, and readiness; technology and 
cybersecurity; communications; and changes the Bureau made in 
response to the coronavirus pandemic.
    During the investigation, the Committee requested documents 
and information from the Department of Justice, the Department 
of Commerce, and the Census Bureau. The Committee held six 
hearings on March 14, 2019, January 9, 2020, February 12, 2020, 
July 29, 2020, September 10, 2020, and December 3, 2020. On 
March 14, 2019, the Committee heard testimony from Secretary of 
Commerce Wilbur Ross about the Trump Administration's attempts 
to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
    On July 12, 2019, the Committee voted to recommend the 
House hold the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce 
in contempt of Congress for their refusal to comply with duly 
authorized subpoenas relating to the 2020 Census.
    During the January 9, 2020, and February 12, 2020, 
hearings, the Committee heard testimony about the challenges 
the Bureau faced while trying to count hard-to-count 
populations. During the July and September hearings, the 
Committee heard testimony about how the Bureau planned to 
address the challenges they faced in conducting a fair, full, 
and accurate census during the coronavirus pandemic. The 
Committee held briefings on April 14, 2020, April 24, 2020, 
August 27, 2020, and August 28, 2020, to address the Bureau's 
rushed timeline to complete the census after delays due to the 
pandemic and after the Trump Administration withdrew its 
request for extra time to conduct the census.
    During the December 3, 2020, hearing, the Committee heard 
testimony regarding reports of anomalies, challenges, and 
additional delays in the Census Bureau's data collection and 
data processing.
    The Committee introduced two pieces of legislation, H.R. 
7034 and H.R. 7974, to extend the statutory reporting deadlines 
for apportionment and redistricting data by 120 days. 
Provisions from H.R. 7034 were identical to those included in 
H.R. 6800, which passed the House on May 15, 2020. H.R. 7974 
also prevented the Secretary of Commerce from delivering 
apportionment data to the President before April 1, 2021, and 
required the Census Bureau to carry out the Non-Response Follow 
Up operations for the 2020 Census through at least October 31, 
2020. These provisions were included in H.R. 8406, the Heroes 
Act, which passed the House on October 1, 2020.

                          XII. POSTAL SERVICE

    During the 116th Congress, the Committee investigated, and 
continues to investigate, widespread and persistent mail delays 
and poor performance at the Postal Service caused by 
operational and organizational changes implemented by 
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after he began his 
tenure in June 2020. The Committee began its investigation 
after press reports raised concerns about significant delays in 
mail, including mail-in ballots and prescription drugs, and the 
release of documents indicating that harmful operational 
changes were being implemented at the Postal Service that had 
not been briefed to Congress, other stakeholders, or the 
American public. Those concerns were heightened by the 
coronavirus pandemic, during which the American public has 
increasingly turned to the mail--and packages in particular--to 
obtain everyday and critical supplies as well as the run-up to 
the 2020 presidential election in which record numbers of 
voters were expected to request and/or cast ballots by mail.
    On October 19, 2020, the Postal Service IG issued a report 
finding that under Postmaster General DeJoy, the Postal Service 
instituted three sweeping operational changes and oversaw the 
implementation of 57 other operational changes that led to 
widespread and persistent mail delays, including three major 
initiatives launched by the Postmaster General himself. The IG 
also found that all of these operational changes had been 
implemented without sufficient prior analysis.
    On August 24, 2020, the Committee held a hearing with 
Postmaster General DeJoy and Chairman of the Postal Service 
Board of Governors Robert M. Duncan. At the hearing, the 
Postmaster General acknowledged that his changes negatively 
impacted service, but he refused to recognize the extent of the 
impacts.
    Following the hearing, and after several months of refusing 
to provide information about the changes under Postmaster 
General DeJoy, on September 2, 2020, the Committee issued a 
subpoena to the Postal Service requesting 17 categories of 
documents and information on the recent changes. The Committee 
continues to seek full compliance from the Postal Service with 
the subpoena.
    The Committee is also examining the lack of oversight 
provided by the Board of Governors under Chairman Duncan during 
these significant organizational and operational changes as 
well as for the circumstances surrounding the hiring of Mr. 
DeJoy, who was a prominent Republican fundraiser with 
significant financial interests in a USPS competitor. On August 
31, 2020, the Committee wrote a letter to Chairman Duncan 
requesting documents. The Committee continues to seek full 
compliance by the Board of Governors with its document request.

                    XIII. CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY

    The Committee continued to conduct oversight of 
cyberattacks affecting federal agencies and the private sector.
    FISMA Oversight. The Committee continued its oversight of 
the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 
(FISMA), as amended, which requires federal agencies to 
implement a number of security controls on their information 
systems. On October 8, 2019, Committee staff received a 
briefing from GAO on its work related to federal agencies' 
information security practices and implementation of FISMA 
requirements.
    CBP Cyberattack. On July 1, 2019, Chairman Cummings and 
Subcommittee Chairman Lynch sent a letter to the Acting 
Secretary of CBP after reports emerged in June that a 
cyberattack compromised tens of thousands of license plate, 
car, and face photos held by a CBP contractor. On July 26, 
2019, CBP briefed Committee staff on the security breach, and 
on September 6, 2019, CBP submitted a letter with additional 
details on the breach.
    USAccess. On June 20, 2019, the GSA IG released an alert 
memorandum notifying Congress that weaknesses in the USAccess 
system may have placed federal security systems at risk. On 
July 9, GSA IG briefed Committee staff on the contents of the 
alert memorandum. GSA briefed Committee staff on the alert 
memorandum on July 11, 2019.
    Capital One Cyberattack. In July 2019, reports emerged that 
hackers had obtained access to personal information on nearly 
100 million customers and potential customers at Capitol One. 
On July 29, 2019, DOJ announced that they arrested a former 
software engineer in connection with the attack. The Committee 
received briefings from both Capital One and Amazon related to 
the attack on August 8, 2019, after an initial request from the 
minority. On August 7, 2020, Capitol One agreed to pay 
regulators an $80 million fine for the 2019 breach.
    Twitter Cybersecurity Incident. On July 30, 2020, the 
Committee received a bipartisan staff briefing from Twitter 
representatives regarding a cybersecurity incident on July 15, 
2020, in which Twitter's internal tools were improperly 
accessed as part of an apparent attempt to solicit 
cryptocurrency that targeted over 100 high-profile social media 
accounts. The briefing followed a request sent by Ranking 
Member Comer. On July 31, 2020, DOJ announced that three 
persons had been charged for their roles in the alleged attack, 
including a seventeen-year old recent high school graduate in 
Florida, according to press reports.
    December 2020 Cyberattack by Suspected State Actor. Near 
the end of the 116th Congress, the Committee began conducting 
oversight a large-scale cyberattack affecting federal agencies 
and the private sector, including reportedly the Departments of 
the Treasury, Homeland Security, State, Commerce, and Energy, 
as well as the National Nuclear Security Administration and the 
National Institutes of Health. On December 8, 2020, the 
cybersecurity firm FireEye reported that a suspected state 
actor had launched a successful cyberattack on the company. In 
the course of its internal investigation, FireEye reportedly 
identified the intrusion as a supply chain attack involving 
third-party commercial Orion software from SolarWinds, which 
also reportedly was compromised by the attackers. SolarWinds 
produces widely used network monitoring software and counts 
numerous federal agencies as its customers. Orion software 
containing malicious code reportedly was sent to nearly 18,000 
SolarWinds customers. On December 16, 2020, the Department of 
Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 
Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) 
acknowledged a ``significant and ongoing cybersecurity 
campaign'' that has ``affected networks within the federal 
government.''
    On December 18, 2020, Committee on Oversight and Reform and 
the Committee on Homeland Security hosted a joint classified 
Member briefing with CISA, FBI, and ODNI on the cyberattack. 
The Committee expects its review of this incident to continue.

                     XIV. ELECTRONIC LOCATION DATA

    In early 2020, the Committee launched a bicameral 
investigation into the collection and sale of mobile phone 
location data and the acquisition and use of this data by 
federal government agencies for law enforcement purposes. In 
the course of this investigation, the Committee, along with 
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Ron Wyden, and Committee 
Member Mark DeSaulnier, requested documents and information 
from two companies--Venntel and Mobilewalla--after reports 
raised constitutional and privacy concerns about the companies' 
practices given the sensitivity of the data that they collected 
and provided to their customers. Committee staff conducted a 
bipartisan, bicameral staff briefing with Mobilewalla's Chief 
Executive regarding the company's use of location tracking 
data. The Committee's work on this topic remains ongoing.

               XV. STUDENT LOANS AND FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES

    Student Loans. In August 2019, the Committee launched an 
investigation, along with the Committees on Education and Labor 
and Financial Services, into reports that the Department of 
Education was shielding student loan servicing companies from 
state law enforcement and undermining the Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau's (CFPB) oversight of these companies. The 
Department of Education continues to obstruct this 
investigation. The Committee reviewed hundreds of thousands of 
documents from student loan servicing companies, including 
Nelnet, Navient, and the Pennsylvania Higher Education 
Assistance Agency (PHEAA).
    Borrower Defense/For-Profit Colleges. In June 2020, the 
Committee, along with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters, requested that 
the Department of Education Inspector General investigate 
allegations that the Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos 
illegally used information from the Social Security 
Administration to carry out directives that would prevent 
students defrauded by for-profit colleges from receiving full 
loan relief for their borrower defense claims. The IG accepted 
the request and is currently investigating whether the 
Department's partial relief formula used data that was 
accurate, reliable, and based on quality information.
    In September 2020, the Committee launched an investigation, 
along with the Committee on Education and Labor, into whether 
the Department of Education froze a tool designed to ease the 
borrower defense application process for borrowers who were 
ripped off by their schools, typically for-profit colleges. The 
Committees received documents from Accenture Federal Services, 
the contractor designing the web tool. In October 2020, the 
Committees released initial findings demonstrating that the 
Department of Education halted the web tool and the newly 
released documents directly contradicted vehement and public 
denials from the Department of Education claiming that there 
was no stoppage to the launch of the web tool.

                XVI. TITLE IX AND CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT

    During the 116th Congress, the Committee conducted 
oversight of the Department of Education's enforcement of Title 
IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which protects 
people from sex discrimination in federally funded education 
programs. After the Department proposed a Title IX rule that 
would have encouraged schools to pursue fewer complaints of 
sexual assault and other forms of harassment, every Democratic 
Member of the Committee wrote to Secretary DeVos requesting 
documents and information regarding the Department's Title IX 
Rule. The Department refused to provide any of the requested 
materials, citing the pendency of the rulemaking. On June 22, 
2020, after the Department finalized the Title IX Rule, 
Chairwoman Maloney and Committee Members Jackie Speier, Ayanna 
Pressley, and Brenda Lawrence wrote again to Secretary DeVos, 
demanding the Department comply with the Committee's document 
requests. The Department still did not provide the requested 
documents.
    On May 21, 2020, GAO issued a report requested by 
Chairwoman Maloney, Committee Member Ro Khanna, and Rep. Susan 
Davis examining college campus climate surveys on sexual 
assault. The GAO report found that climate surveys can help 
educational institutions gather more comprehensive information 
about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment on 
campus, but that not all schools have the resources they need 
to conduct surveys effectively.

                      XVII. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING

    Sole-Source Contractor's Profiteering. In April 2019, in 
response to a report by the DOD IG, the Committee launched an 
investigation of whether TransDigm Group Incorporated and its 
subsidiaries abused their position as a sole-source 
manufacturer of spare parts to charge DOD exorbitant prices for 
essential components of military aircraft. On May 15, 2019, the 
Committee held a hearing with witnesses including Kevin Stein, 
TransDigm's Chief Executive Officer, Nicholas Howley, the 
Chairman of TransDigm's Board, Assistant Secretary of Defense 
Kevin Fahey, and DOD IG Glenn Fine. After the hearing, 
TransDigm agreed to refund the government $16 million for 
overpriced spare parts.
    F-35 Spare Parts. In August 2019, in response to a report 
by the DOD IG, the Committee launched an investigation of 
Lockheed Martin's failure to deliver spare parts that were 
ready for installation on the F-35 aircraft. In January 2020, 
after several briefings by the F-35 Joint Program Office, 
Committee staff visited and interviewed F-35 maintenance 
personnel at multiple bases. On July 22, 2020, the Committee 
held a hearing with Under Secretary of Defense Ellen Lord, F-35 
Program Executive Officer Eric Fick, Lockheed Martin Vice 
President Gregory Ulmer, Assistant Inspector General Theresa 
Hull and Diana Maurer, Director of Defense Capabilities and 
Management at GAO. After the hearing, on September 21, 2020, 
the Committee provided recommendations to DOD to improve the F-
35 program.
    Federal Supply Schedule. The Committee conducted oversight 
of government-wide contracts awarded under the Federal Supply 
Schedule. In July 2019, the GSA IG released a report that 
examined two Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts awarded to 
McKinsey & Company, Inc. The IG found that that McKinsey could 
not justify its team-based weekly pricing model that had been 
used to bill the U.S. Government more than $956 million over 
the duration of the multi-year contracts and that improper 
price increases could cost the federal government an extra $69 
million. As a result, the IG recommended cancellation of the 
two contracts.
    Committee staff received briefings from GSA IG and GSA on 
July 31, 2019, and August 6, 2019, respectively, during which 
officials indicated that GSA had taken preliminary steps to 
prevent new orders under the contract while it renegotiated the 
pricing terms with McKinsey.
    In April 2020, GSA staff informed Committee staff that GSA 
had been unable to successfully negotiate better pricing terms 
from McKinsey and that the agency had therefore decided to 
cancel McKinsey's contracts.

                  B. Subcommittee on National Security


                         I. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

    In July 2018, prior to the start of the 116th Congress, the 
Trump Administration began direct talks with the Taliban to 
facilitate the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from 
Afghanistan. In April 2019, the Subcommittee began to conduct 
oversight of the Trump Administration's strategy in 
Afghanistan, including U.S.-Taliban negotiations and the 
national security and counterterrorism ramifications of an 
anticipated U.S. military withdrawal.
    As part of its oversight work, the Subcommittee held three 
hearings on April 3, 2019, January 28, 2020, and September 22, 
2020, and two briefings on April 29, 2020, and September 22, 
2020.
    At the April 3, 2019 hearing, the Subcommittee heard 
testimony from Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko about the 2019 ``high-risk 
list'' of U.S. programs that are ``particularly vulnerable to 
waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and mission failure.''
    On January 28, 2020, after the Department of State and DOD 
refused multiple invitations to testify before the 
Subcommittee, SIGAR Sopko returned to testify about the 
potential ramifications of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal and to 
emphasize the importance of Congressional oversight as it 
related to the Trump Administration's strategy in Afghanistan.
    On April 3, 2020, the Subcommittee worked with the full 
Committee to host a virtual briefing with SIGAR Sopko to 
examine the potential consequences of the February 29, 2020, 
U.S.-Taliban peace deal for Afghan women and girls.
    On April 29, 2020, the Subcommittee held a telephone 
briefing with SIGAR Sopko to discuss recent developments in 
Afghanistan and SIGAR's first quarterly report of 2020 on the 
status of Afghan reconstruction.
    On September 22, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing with 
Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay 
Khalilzad and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 
(DASD) for Indo-Pacific Affairs David Helvey to receive 
testimony about the February 29, 2020, peace deal and its 
implementation status, as well as long-term national security 
implications for the United States in Afghanistan. The 
Subcommittee also held a classified briefing with Ambassador 
Khalilzad and DASD Helvey immediately prior to the hearing.

                    II. VETERANS AND RELATED ISSUES

    The Subcommittee on National Security held multiple 
hearings and launched several investigations during the 116th 
Congress to ensure the continued health and well-being of our 
nation's veterans and their families.
    Preventing Suicide by Current and Former Servicemembers. On 
May 8, 2019, the Subcommittee held a bipartisan hearing with 
DOD and the VA to examine the alarming rate of suicide among 
active-duty servicemembers and veterans.
    Repatriation of Missing Servicemembers Remains. In 
September 2019, Subcommittee Chairman Lynch led a congressional 
delegation to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, where the 
delegation met with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) 
personnel to learn more about their ongoing efforts to identify 
and repatriate the remains of missing American servicemembers 
from prior conflicts. On November 11, 2019, the Subcommittee 
held a hearing to examine the effectiveness of these efforts 
and considered whether the DPAA has sufficient resources to 
fulfill its mission.
    Karshi-Khanabad Air Base. In January 2020, the Subcommittee 
launched an investigation to determine whether U.S. 
servicemembers who deployed to Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in 
Southeastern Uzbekistan between 2001-2005 to support Operation 
Enduring Freedom may have been exposed to toxic hazards that 
are now causing adverse health effects. On February 27, 2020, 
the Subcommittee held a hearing with K2 veterans and family 
members who testified about the toxic conditions at K2 and the 
VA's failure to recognize K2 veterans' disabilities as service-
connected.
    As a result of its investigation into K2, on July 9, 2020, 
the Subcommittee released three newly-declassified assessments 
that DOD conducted to environmental conditions at K2. These 
assessments detail multiple hazards and toxins that U.S. 
servicemembers were potentially exposed to while deployed to K2 
between 2001 and 2005, including hazardous petrochemicals and 
volatile organic compounds, such as jet fuel and kerosene, and 
the potential for exposure to radiation, depleted uranium 
sources, and burn pits. In addition, in April 2020, the VA 
committed to begin a new study to investigate the health 
outcomes of K2 veterans.
    On November 18, 2020, the Subcommittee held a bipartisan 
hearing to examine how VA and DOD are working to address the 
health concerns of K2 veterans and servicemembers.

             III. U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND COUNTERTERRORISM

    Foreign Policy. The Subcommittee conducted oversight of 
U.S. foreign and defense policy during the 116th Congress. In 
August 2019, Subcommittee Chairman Lynch led a delegation to 
Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and Hawaii to examine China's 
growing influence in Southeast Asia and to learn more about 
regional anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing 
initiatives.
    In October 2019, following the September 2019 attacks on 
Saudi Aramco facilities, Chairman Lynch led a delegation to 
Algeria and Saudi Arabia to learn directly from senior military 
and diplomatic officials about the attacks and to conduct 
broader oversight of U.S. counterterrorism initiatives in the 
region.
    On May 14, 2020, the Subcommittee held a briefing to 
examine the coronavirus outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa and 
discuss implications for global health and U.S. national 
security.
    On July 23, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing with 
representatives from the Departments of State, DOD, DHS, and 
USAID to examine the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and 
Security Strategy and whether the Trump Administration has 
pursued policies that further the objectives and goals 
identified by the strategy.
    On August 17, 2020, the Subcommittee held a joint briefing 
with the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the 
Pacific, and Nonproliferation, to address China's repression of 
Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang and opportunities for the United 
States to hold China accountable for these human rights abuses.
    Counterterrorism. The Subcommittee carried out significant 
oversight of the Trump Administration's counterterrorism 
policies in the 116th Congress. On October 23, 2019, following 
President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from 
northeast Syria, the Subcommittee held a hearing to examine the 
implications of President Trump's decision for the Defeat ISIS 
campaign and the humanitarian crisis resulting from Turkey's 
incursion into northern Syria.
    On December 17, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to 
examine U.S. counterterrorism priorities and challenges in 
Africa. After Secretary of Defense Esper announced that he was 
conducting a review of the alignment of U.S. forces in the 
Africa Command area of responsibility, Chairman Lynch led a 
delegation to Mali, Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia in January 
2020 to examine firsthand the importance of continued U.S. 
engagement in the region.
    Violent White Supremacy. The Subcommittee joined the 
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to address the 
growing threat of violent white supremacism following several 
high-profile attacks during the Trump Administration. On 
September 20, 2019, the Subcommittees held a joint hearing to 
examine how white supremacist violence has become an 
increasingly global and transnational terrorist threat to U.S. 
national security and considered whether additional 
intelligence, law enforcement, or information sharing 
mechanisms can be deployed to counter the growing international 
threat of white nationalist terrorism.
    Following the hearing, on November 13, 2019, the 
Subcommittees held a joint classified briefing with the Acting 
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center to discuss the 
transnational threat of white supremacist extremism, the need 
for greater coordination within the U.S. intelligence community 
to most effectively address the threat, and the heightened 
importance of protecting civil liberties while engaged in this 
effort.

                         IV. HOMELAND SECURITY

    The Subcommittee conducted oversight on a variety of 
homeland security issues during the 116th Congress, including 
the security of elections and critical infrastructure.
    On May 22, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to assess 
the security of U.S. election infrastructure. Specifically, the 
Subcommittee examined current government efforts to address 
attacks on election systems and the important role of state and 
local governments, as well as private sector partners, to 
protect U.S. election security systems, infrastructure, and 
technology platforms.
    On June 26, 2019, more than six months before the first 
diagnosed case of coronavirus in the United States, the 
Subcommittee held a hearing to evaluate the readiness of the 
U.S. government and healthcare system, including hospitals and 
emergency professionals, to respond to naturally-occurring 
pandemics and biological attacks that could be perpetrated by 
state and non-state actors, and to consider the potential 
ramifications of increased antimicrobial resistance.
    On September 10, 2019, the Subcommittee held a joint 
hearing with the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on 
Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities to receive 
testimony from representatives of DHS, Commerce, and DOD about 
the internet infrastructure security and the importance of 
inter-agency coordination in addressing existing 
vulnerabilities.
    On April 27, 2020, following the coronavirus outbreak in 
the United States, the Subcommittee held a joint briefing with 
the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy to examine the 
impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the global supply chain 
for pharmaceuticals sold in the United States, with a 
particular focus on national security and consumer 
implications.
    On May 29, 2020, the Subcommittee held a briefing with 
representatives from DHS, DOJ, and the FBI to examine 
cybersecurity threats during the coronavirus pandemic.

                C. Subcommittee on Government Operations


       I. FEDERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND CYBERSECURITY POLICY

    Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. The 
Subcommittee held three hearings on the Federal Information 
Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA). These hearings 
examined the implementation of FITARA and specifically: (1) how 
federal agencies have developed and improved their information 
technology postures since FITARA's December 2014 enactment; (2) 
whether some metrics have outlived their usefulness and should 
be sunset; and (3) new metrics that should be considered for 
addition to the Scorecard.
    On June 26, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing entitled 
``FITARA 8.0,'' during which the Subcommittee heard testimony 
from the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), GAO, and CIOs 
from the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Education, and the 
Treasury.
    On December 11, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing 
entitled ``FITARA 9.0,'' during which the Subcommittee heard 
from GAO, the Acting CIO from DHS, and the CIO of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    On August 3, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing entitled 
``FITARA 10.0,'' during which it heard testimony from GAO, the 
Deputy Federal CIO, and officials from OPM and Department of 
Education.
    During the 116th Congress, agencies' average scores on 
FITARA implementation rose from a ``D'' to above a ``C'' on the 
program's Scorecard. The most recent Scorecard was also the 
first Scorecard in which all agencies received a passing grade. 
These grades represent taxpayer dollars saved, better mission 
delivery, and more effective and efficient service for the 
nation.
    Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. On July 
17, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to examine the 
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). 
FedRAMP provides a standardized approach for security 
assessments of cloud technology and aims to accelerate the 
adoption of modern and secure cloud solutions across the 
federal government. At this hearing, the Subcommittee heard 
testimony from GSA and DOD on their administration of FedRAMP 
authorizations.
    On July 24, 2019, Chairman Connolly introduced the FedRAMP 
Authorization Act, H.R. 3941, that mandates FedRAMP metrics be 
established, ensures continued engagement across industry and 
agency stakeholders, and authorizes a sufficient resource level 
for FedRAMP. The legislation passed the House under suspension 
and is currently referred to the Senate Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs. Provisions identical to 
those in H.R. 3941 are also in the final stages of inclusion in 
the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021.

                II. ADMINISTRATION REORGANIZATION PLANS

    In response to President Trump FY2020 budget request, which 
sought to zero out OPM's budget, Chairman Connolly requested 
documents from OPM, including a legal analysis of the 
Administration's authority to eliminate OPM, a cost/benefit 
analysis, and a timeline of the action.
    On May 21, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to examine 
the Administration's proposal and heard testimony from OPM 
Acting Director Margaret Weichert. At the hearing, Acting 
Director Weichert admitted that OPM and GSA were not close to 
being ready to meet their October 1 deadline for GSA and OMB to 
absorb most of OPM's functions. Acting Director Weichert failed 
to provide an explanation as to why the move to GSA would 
improve the technology or its operations.
    On June 27, 2019, the Subcommittee held a follow-up hearing 
with OPM, the FBI, and GSA to address the lack of cooperation 
across the Trump Administration in response to multiple 
congressional investigations. In defiance of the Subcommittee's 
investigation into the Administration's plans to abolish OPM 
and move its component parts into other agencies, OPM withheld 
key documents, applied extensive redactions, and narrowly 
interpreted the Committee's requests. At the hearing, 
Democratic members of the Subcommittee demanded that OPM 
address deficiencies in their operations and explain in detail 
decisions affecting the timeliness of OPM's document 
production.
    On December 11, 2019, in response to the Subcommittee's 
investigation and significant bipartisan outrage, President 
Trump announced that he would abandon his proposal to abolish 
OPM. The Subcommittee's investigation revealed the fallacy of 
the Administration's proposal and ceased the transfer of civil 
service policymaking from an independent agency into a highly 
politicized environment outside of direct congressional and 
inspector general oversight.

                  III. PROTECTIONS FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS

    On January 28, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing to 
examine whistleblower protections and whether new legal 
provisions would improve whistleblower protections and ensure 
that federal employees, contractors, and grantees are willing 
to come forward to expose wrongdoing in government today and in 
the future. Democratic Members on the Subcommittee extolled the 
value of federal whistleblowers. They stressed that 
whistleblowers need to be protected to come forward 
confidentially and provided authority to recoup damages for any 
loss that results from the release of their private 
information.
    In response to continued Administration abuses against 
whistleblowers, Chairman Connolly introduced the Whistleblower 
Expansion Act, H.R. 4147, which would clarify that sub-
contractors and sub-grantees are afforded whistleblower 
protections; the Interim Stay Authority to Protect 
Whistleblowers Act, H.R. 2530, which allows the general counsel 
at the MSPB to take certain actions to protect whistleblowers 
as if they were a board member; and the Postal Employee Appeal 
Rights Amendments Act, H.R. 597, which would provide 
whistleblower protections to thousands of Postal Service 
employees in non-bargaining positions that currently lack 
rights to appeal adverse actions to the MSPB.

           IV. WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY

    On October 22, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing on its 
continued oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
Authority (WMATA). This hearing was the first public forum in 
which Congress would examine the efficacy of the newly created 
Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC) and its ability 
to take on the oversight role formerly performed by the Federal 
Transit Administration (FTA). At the hearing, the Subcommittee 
heard testimony from the CEO of WMATA, the CEO of the 
Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, the Chair of WMATA's 
Board of Directors, and the WMATA IG. The hearing highlighted 
the need to continue trends of improvement and take additional 
steps to increase ridership, improve safety, and make for a 
better customer experience. The Subcommittee examined the 
oversight mechanisms to hold WMATA accountable and ensure 
progress, including the new Washington Metrorail Safety 
Commission and the Inspector General.
    In early 2019, the WMATA Board Ethics Committee opened an 
investigation into ethics violations by Jack Evans, the former 
WMATA board chairman. Chairman Connolly and the Subcommittee 
referred the issues surrounding the ethics investigation and 
attempts to impede the investigative process to the WMATA OIG 
for review. The WMATA OIG initiated an investigation in 
response to the request.
    A January 2019 GAO report requested by Chairman Connolly 
found that WMATA had not established an adequate and 
transparent capital planning process for selecting projects to 
fund in its annual capital budget. GAO recommended that WMATA 
establish a transparent process for developing its capital 
budget. GAO also recommended WMATA conduct a comprehensive risk 
assessment for the track preventive maintenance program.
    Chairman Connolly previously introduced legislation to 
provide WMATA ten years of capital investments and strengthen 
the WMATA Office of Inspector General. During the 116th 
Congress, the Subcommittee examined the need for additional 
legislation.

                      V. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

    On July 23, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to 
propose and evaluate ways to improve cooperation among federal, 
state and local governments. The purpose of the hearing was to 
examine the status of federalism in the United States and 
review legislation addressing this intergovernmental system. On 
the day of the hearing, Chairman Connolly introduced the 
Restore the Partnership Act, H.R. 3883, which would 
reconstitute and reform the U.S. Advisory Commission on 
Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), a bipartisan entity 
comprised of representatives of federal, state, local, and 
tribal governments to promote innovation and collaboration in 
the intergovernmental space.
    Throughout the 116th Congress, the Subcommittee worked to 
promote collaboration across governments to ensure the reliable 
administration of public services and the protection of the 
public welfare.

            VI. FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND PROCUREMENT

    The Subcommittee worked with alongside the full Committee 
to investigate the abrupt decision to abandon the long-term 
plan to move the FBI headquarters to a suburban location and 
replace it with a more costly plan to keep the Pennsylvania 
Avenue location, demolish the existing J. Edgar Hoover 
Building, and construct a new facility on the same site.
    On June 27, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing to 
question the Assistant Director of the Office of Congressional 
Affairs at the FBI about this matter. The testimony included 
questions about the rushed reversal in the FBI's years-long 
plan and whether that change involved direct conversations with 
the President who stood to gain from this alternative.
    This oversight was a continuation of the Subcommittee's 
previous work in the 115th Congress. In February 2018, Chairman 
Connolly wrote to the GSA IG and requested that she investigate 
GSA's decision-making and the role of White House influence. In 
August 2018, the IG issued a report that noted inaccuracies in 
the cost estimates presented to Congress of up to $500 million 
and revealed that President Trump personally participated in 
discussions regarding the revised plan.
    The Subcommittee also worked alongside the full Committee 
to investigate the federal lease for the Old Post Office 
Building between GSA and the Trump Organization. At the June 
27, 2019, hearing, the Subcommittee heard testimony from the 
GSA Chief of Staff on President Trump's position as both the 
landlord and the tenant of the Trump International Hotel in 
Washington, D.C. The Democratic Members of the Subcommittee 
demanded GSA turn over financial documents relevant to the 
Committee's investigation that would shed light on potential 
conflicts of interest and constitutional violations, among 
other issues.

                 VII. SUPPORT FOR THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE

    Throughout this Administration's tenure, the federal 
workforce has been attacked for using expertise and performing 
their duties. They were also used as political pawns during the 
pandemic--often forced to the frontlines of their offices 
without clear procedures and protections. In response, the 
Government Operations Subcommittee, held hearings on promoting 
the protection of federal employees on the frontlines and 
recruiting the next generation of federal employees, on June 25 
and September 25, 2020, respectively.
    The Subcommittee's oversight informed legislative efforts 
to support the federal workforce. On October 27, 2020, Chairman 
Connolly introduced the Saving the Civil Service Act, H.R. 
8687, which would reverse President Trump's executive order 
that guts the merit-based civil service and creates a new 
category for federal employees; on October 20, 2020, Chairman 
Connolly introduced the Protecting Employees from Surprise 
Taxes Act of 2020, H.R. 8629, to rescind President Trump's 
executive order requiring federal employees to accept a tax 
deferral that would come due early next year; on July 1, 2020, 
Chairman Connolly introduced the Telework for U.S. Innovation 
Act, H.R. 7448, which would extend telework for the U.S. Patent 
and Trademark Office; and on June 25, 2020 Chairman Connolly 
introduced the Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act, H.R. 7340, 
which would require agencies to post their pandemic-related 
office reopening plans and communicate them clearly to 
employees, and the Federal Workforce Health and Safety During 
the Pandemic Act, H.R. 7341, a standalone version of the 
workforce provisions the Chairman worked to get included in 
House-passed COVID legislation. The Chair also championed a 
bill seeking to improve telework, H.R. 6106, the Telework 
Metrics and Cost Savings Act; bills seeking pay raises for 
federal employees, H.R. 5690 and H.R. 1073; and other bills 
seeking to expand the pay and rights of federal employees.

            D. Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy


                I. CARCINOGENS IN CONSUMER TALC PRODUCTS

    In March 2019, the Subcommittee launched an investigation 
into carcinogens in consumer products, with a particular focus 
on Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder, which contained significant 
carcinogenic asbestos. The investigation culminated in Johnson 
& Johnson discontinuing sales of its talc-based baby powder on 
May 19, 2020. The Subcommittee's 14-month investigation 
revealed that Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that its Baby 
Powder contained asbestos and that the company fought to 
continue using a testing method that never would have allowed 
it to be detected.
    The Subcommittee's investigation included two hearings. The 
first hearing, on March 12, 2019, examined the health risks of 
asbestos in talc-containing consumer products, focusing on 
Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder. The second, on December 10, 
2019, addressed the methods of detecting asbestos in talc. The 
hearing remained focused on the significant presence of 
asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder and the company's 
insufficient testing methods. The Subcommittee put forth 
recommended testing improvements for the Food and Drug 
Administration (FDA) to adopt.
    Within one month of the Subcommittee's December 2019 
hearing, FDA announced that it would hold an open meeting on 
that topic, after having left it unaddressed for years. Through 
its Interagency Working Group, FDA included preliminary 
recommendations that mirrored all but one of the Subcommittee's 
recommendations raised at the December hearing.
    On March 3, 2020, Chairman Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to 
FDA encouraging it to adopt the most stringent testing methods 
to detect carcinogenic asbestos in consumer talc-based 
products. FDA is still weighing that decision.

                II. YOUTH E-CIGARETTE EPIDEMIC AND JUUL

    The Subcommittee led congressional oversight of the youth 
e-cigarette epidemic and the role of JUUL, an e-cigarette 
manufacturer, in creating it. The Subcommittee's 18-month 
investigation drastically altered the e-cigarette landscape and 
forced significant changes to the industry's troubling 
practices.
    The Subcommittee launched its investigation on June 7, 
2019, issuing extensive document requests to JUUL. The 
Subcommittee held the first congressional hearings on vaping on 
July 24 and 25, 2019. The Subcommittee's July 24, 2019, hearing 
obtained testimony about JUUL's marketing strategies to youth 
and vulnerable populations, exposing information about JUUL's 
targeting of children in schools and children as young as eight 
years old in summer camps. The Subcommittee's July 25, 2019, 
hearing obtained key testimony from top JUUL executive and co-
founder James Monsees.
    On September 9, 2019, the Subcommittee sent a letter 
presenting FDA with clear evidence of illegal safety claims 
made by JUUL. Immediately following Chairman Krishnamoorthi's 
letter to FDA, which explained that JUUL's marketing practices 
violated federal law, FDA issued a Warning Letter to JUUL. The 
FDA's letter to JUUL specifically cited its review of testimony 
presented at the Subcommittee's July 24 and 25, 2019, hearings.
    The President, FDA, and HHS all referred to the 
Subcommittee's investigative results when they promised to ban 
all e-cigarette flavors to curb youth use. Within three weeks 
of Chairman Krishnamoorthi's letter, JUUL announced that it 
would stop all U.S. advertising and was removing its Chief 
Executive Officer, Kevin Burns.
    On September 24, 2019, the Subcommittee held the first 
congressional hearing examining the sudden outbreak of vaping-
related lung injuries and the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) advice to Americans not to use e-cigarettes.
    On September 25, 2019, the Subcommittee sent letters to 
four of the leading e-cigarette manufacturers, calling on them 
to stop advertising on television, radio, and through social 
media influencers. In September and October 2019, in response 
to letters from Chairman Krishnamoorthi, e-cigarette 
manufacturers NJOY and Logic confirmed they would not advertise 
their e-cigarettes in the United States, and Blu discontinued 
its social media influencer program that included celebrities 
like Post Malone.
    On October 1, 2019, the Subcommittee urged the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) to allocate grant funding to 
research the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes.
    On October 7, 2019, the Subcommittee introduced the END 
ENDs Act, H.R. 4624, to cap nicotine levels and make e-
cigarettes less likely to addict new users.
    On October 10, 2019, the Subcommittee sent a letter to 
Reynolds American, Inc., demanding documents regarding its 
then-pervasive advertising.
    On October 22, 2019, the Subcommittee sent a letter calling 
on FDA to deliver on the Administration's promise to ban all e-
cigarette flavors.
    On October 30, 2019, after FDA finalized its flavor 
guidance, the Subcommittee called on the White House's Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs to finish its review of 
FDA's guidance within ten days and cancel its meeting with 
industry lobbyists so the guidance could quickly go into 
effect.
    On November 7, 2019, the Subcommittee demanded documents 
from JUUL and its contract manufacturer about allegations that 
it was knowingly selling contaminated JUUL pods.
    On November 18, 2019, the Subcommittee sent letters calling 
on the Administration to issue its promised ban on e-cigarette 
flavors and requested information from FDA and OIRA regarding 
their delay in finalizing the ban.
    On December 4, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing with 
FDA to examine why the flavor guidance was being delayed and 
why FDA should not include flavor exemptions as favors to 
industry.
    On December 12, 2019, the Subcommittee introduced 
legislation, the PREVENT Act, to establish e-cigarette user 
fees collected from e-cigarette manufactures to fund youth 
anti-vaping education. This legislation was informed by the 
Subcommittee's investigation.
    On January 2, 2020, when FDA finally issued flavor guidance 
with exemptions for menthol, open tank vapes, and disposable e-
cigarettes, the Subcommittee requested information on how FDA 
planned to prevent youth from migrating to the menthol products 
it let stay on the market and seeking FDA's commitment to act 
when it discovers rising youth use of menthol e-cigarettes.
    On January 30, 2020, the Subcommittee sent letters to NJOY 
and Blu, the makers of disposable e-cigarettes, about their 
business plans after FDA exempted their products from its 
flavor guidance.
    On February 5, 2020, the Subcommittee released a staff memo 
disclosing new evidence of JUUL's wrongdoing.
    On April 1, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter demanding 
that FDA clear the market of all e-cigarettes during the 
coronavirus pandemic due to evidence that e-cigarettes present 
serious risks to coronavirus patients.
    On June 4, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter pressing 
FDA to exercise its full legal authority to immediately clear 
the market of all flavored e-cigarette products sold by a 
company known as Puff Bar. On July 20, 2020, in response to the 
Subcommittee's letter, FDA issued Puff Bar a warning letter 
instructing it to discontinue sales of its product.
    On September 3, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter urging 
CDC to update its guidance to colleges and universities and 
encourage campuses to go tobacco-free--which would include e-
cigarettes--for the fall semester due to evidence that e-
cigarettes present serious risks to coronavirus patients.
    On November 13, 2020, the Subcommittee wrote a letter to 
JUUL encouraging it to follow its own precedent, discontinue 
sales of its menthol product, pull its application to FDA for 
its menthol product, and produce its Premarket Tobacco Products 
Application.
    The Subcommittee's oversight and investigation have forced 
major changes to the industry's troubling practices. The 
investigation has fundamentally altered the e-cigarette 
landscape for the better.

            III. CORONAVIRUS-RELATED WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE

    Philips Respironics Contract with HHS. On April 15, 2020, 
the Subcommittee launched an investigation into a bloated $686 
million ventilator procurement contract negotiated by top Trump 
Administration officials and Philips Respironics. On July 31, 
2020, the Subcommittee issued a 54-page staff report, which led 
to HHS's September 1, 2020, cancellation of the contract, 
saving the taxpayers more than $400 million.
    Trump Administration's PR Contracts. The Subcommittee, 
along with the full Committee and the Select Subcommittee on 
the Coronavirus, investigated HHS coronavirus advertising 
contracts that the Trump Administration sought to use to boost 
Donald Trump's reelection. The investigation led to the 
cancellation of a $15 million contract with Atlas Research on 
November 13, 2020.
    On September 10, 2020, the Chairs wrote to HHS seeking 
documents about a massive $250 million public advertising 
contract with the Fors Marsh Group. On October 1, 2020, the 
Chairs sought additional documents from contractors on a $15 
million ``immediate surge'' communications contract awarded to 
Atlas Research LLC.
    On October 28, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter to HHS 
Secretary Alex M. Azar II releasing new documents obtained from 
the contractors showing that Trump Administration official 
Michael Caputo, through HHS's communications contracts, was 
planning to use celebrities to advance inappropriate partisan 
political messaging intended to help the President's re-
election campaign.
    In response, HHS sent a letter to the Chairs on November 
13, 2020, stating that because of the investigation, HHS was 
terminating the $15 million contract with Atlas Research and 
was taking a new ``science-based approach'' with contractor 
Fors Marsh Group going forward.
    Coronavirus Antibody Testing Policy. The Subcommittee 
initiated its investigation of the FDA's policy on overseeing 
serological coronavirus antibody tests on April 9, 2020, with a 
letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn raising issues with 
FDA's policy.
    On April 24, 2020, the Subcommittee issued a staff report 
finding, among other things, that White House plans to reopen 
economy were flawed by their dependence on coronavirus antibody 
tests, which faced unanswered scientific questions of utility 
and accuracy; FDA did not review any coronavirus antibody test 
kits before they went on the market; FDA and CDC had not put 
forth standards and guidelines for serological antibody tests, 
departing from practices governing molecular tests; and 
numerous companies appeared to be marketing fraudulent tests.
    On the same day, April 24, 2020, FDA Commissioner Hahn 
addressed the Subcommittee's staff report during the White 
House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
    On April 29, 2020, the Subcommittee sent another letter to 
FDA pressing for compliance in the Subcommittee's investigation 
into the agency's policies.
    On May 4, 2020, FDA revised its policy on serological 
antibody testing to address wide gaps in the Trump 
Administration's handling of serology tests identified in the 
Subcommittee's investigation. In response to the investigation, 
FDA admitted its mistakes and made critically needed changes to 
its policy to require FDA review of all antibody tests on the 
market, and to set standards by which to measure the accuracy 
of those tests.
    On June 9, 2020, the Subcommittee convened a virtual 
briefing to examine the role that serological antibody tests 
play in the response to the coronavirus pandemic, 
recommendations and limitations for their use, and federal 
policy.
    Vaccine Oversight. Beginning in June 2020, the Subcommittee 
conducted oversight of the development, review, and deployment 
of coronavirus vaccines.
    On July 14, 2020, the Subcommittee held a virtual briefing 
to examine the process used by FDA to review and license or 
authorize any vaccine candidates for the novel coronavirus. The 
Subcommittee proposed guardrails in vaccine development and 
review, including: (1) requiring large phase 3 clinical trials 
with at least 30,000 participants, and (2) requiring the use of 
advisory committees made up of independent scientists who make 
public recommendations to federal agencies. FDA adopted both of 
the Subcommittee's guardrails and agreed to implement them.
    Sale of Scam Coronavirus-Related Consumer Products and 
Drugs. Beginning in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus 
pandemic, the Subcommittee began investigating companies who 
sought to profiteer off of the crisis by selling scam miracle 
cures and unapproved products. The Subcommittee sent letters to 
dozens of such companies. One such company was Wellness Matrix 
Group. The Subcommittee's investigation uncovered that the 
company was selling unapproved, in-home coronavirus blood tests 
and other suspect coronavirus-related products. The 
Subcommittee discovered that the company was also providing 
inaccurate information in SEC filings. As a result, the SEC 
suspended trading of Wellness Matrix Group's stock.
    Since the Subcommittee launched the investigation into 
unapproved, in-home coronavirus test kits on March 24, 2020, 
multiple companies committed to no longer selling at-home test 
kits, refunded all money collected from consumers, and 
destroyed all consumer samples collected.

                IV. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES AND STUDENT DEBT

    The Subcommittee investigated for-profit colleges and 
student debt, including a hearing on May 22, 2019, examining 
for-profit college closures, accreditation, and funding and 
their impact on student debt.

                      V. PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY

    The Subcommittee investigated data security at consumer 
reporting agencies, including a hearing on March 26, 2019, 
examining options available to the Federal Trade Commission and 
CFPB to promote the improvement of cybersecurity at consumer 
credit reporting agencies and GAO recommendations for improving 
those options.

                           VI. PAYDAY LENDING

    The Subcommittee investigated the CFPB's proposed repeal of 
its payday lending rule. On May 16, 2019, the Subcommittee held 
a hearing which examined: (1) the integrity of CFBP rulemaking 
relating to the payday lending industry; (2) the payday lending 
industry's attempts to improperly influence the CFPB; and (3) 
the integrity of the CFPB's rulemaking process.

          VII. TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S OPPORTUNITY ZONES PROGRAM

    On June 24, 2020, the Subcommittee initiated an 
investigation into the Treasury Department's Opportunity Zone 
program established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Opportunity 
Zones ``are designed to spur economic development and job 
creation in distressed communities.'' The statute targeted 
distressed communities by making census tracts eligible as 
Opportunity Zones if they have high rates of poverty or 
sufficiently low average incomes. Designation as an Opportunity 
Zone provides an incentive for community development projects 
by reducing or eliminating capital gains taxes for investments 
in Opportunity Zones.
    On June 24, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter to the 
Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin requesting documents and 
information after learning that the Department designated 
tracts in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City as ``low-
income communities'' even though they did not appear to meet 
the statutory income qualifications for low-income communities. 
Erroneous designation of higher-income tracts as low-income 
communities would undermine the purpose of the Opportunity Zone 
program by tax breaks to developers that do not benefit the 
distressed communities the law was designed to help.
    On December 16, 2020, Subcommittee Chairman Krishnamoorthi 
and Subcommittee Member Rashida Tlaib sent another letter to 
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin requesting additional documents and 
information regarding reported investments following the 
release of a November 9, 2020, GAO report, which found that 
``there are insufficient data available to evaluate OZ 
[Opportunity Zone] performance.''

                     E. Subcommittee on Environment


      I. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY REFORM EFFORTS AND THEIR IMPACTS

    During the 116th Congress, the Subcommittee investigated 
regulatory repeal efforts by the Trump Administration that did 
not appear to be based in science. The purpose of the 
investigations and hearings was to examine the extent to which 
industry, front groups, and associations were able to influence 
regulatory actions at EPA and the White House Council for 
Environmental Quality (CEQ). The Subcommittee sent two document 
request letters, held staff level briefings with agency 
officials, and held two hearings.
    On October 29, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the 
Trump Administration's decision to roll back the clean cars 
rule and heard testimony from experts and former government 
officials that the decision to roll back the rule was costly to 
consumers and would lead to increased air pollution. The 
Subcommittee also heard testimony that the decision to roll 
back the rule appeared to be as a result of industry influence 
over the administration.
    On February 8, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the 
Administration's decision to gut the Mercury and Air Toxics 
Standards Rule. The Subcommittee heard testimony about the 
known health benefits of the rule and how the decision to 
undermine the rule was a result of industry influence over EPA.
    The document request letters, briefings, and hearings 
underscored the need for more transparency from the 
Administration and the need for regulatory decisions to be 
based in science.

       II. TRANSPARENCY IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS

    Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Over the last 
two years, the Subcommittee on Environment conducted a series 
of hearings and investigations regarding PFAS chemicals with 
two goals: (1) to press federal agencies to regulate the toxic 
chemicals and to clean up these toxic chemicals that reside in, 
and around, military bases as well as communities across the 
United States; and (2) to highlight the role of major 
corporations in the creation of the PFAS crisis and the need 
for corporate accountability. During this investigation, the 
Subcommittee sent document requests to three companies and the 
EPA and DOD, received staff-level briefings from the EPA, and 
held four hearings on March 5, 2019, July 24, 2019, September 
10, 2019, and November 19, 2019.
    On March 5, 2019, the Subcommittee heard from officials 
from the EPA and DOD on the need for increased federal action 
to address the PFAS crisis.
    On July 24, 2019, the Subcommittee heard testimony from 
people across the country who had been personally impacted by 
PFAS contamination, as well as a bipartisan panel of state 
representatives--both groups pressed for federal regulation of 
PFAS chemicals and the people impacted also highlighted the 
need for corporate accountability.
    On September 10, 2019, the Subcommittee heard testimony 
from attorneys who have sued major chemical companies for their 
role in the PFAS crisis as well as pressed representatives from 
major chemical companies regarding their companies' knowledge 
of the toxicity of PFAs chemicals before the public was aware 
and urged them to take additional steps to clean up the 
hazardous chemicals.
    On November 19, 2019, heard from a panel that further 
highlighted the human impacts of PFAS exposure, including the 
impact on military families.
    This investigation resulted in the Subcommittee obtaining a 
greater understanding of the pervasiveness of PFAS 
contamination in the United States, the role of major chemical 
corporations in creating this crisis, and a public commitment 
from two major companies that PFOA and PFOS should be 
designated as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. In 
addition, the hearings and investigations highlighted the need 
for companies to remit fees for the manufacturing of PFAS, as 
proposed in H.R. 2570, the PFAS User Fee Act of 2019.

                     III. STORAGE OF NUCLEAR WASTE

    Nuclear Waste Field Hearing. On June 7, 2019, the 
Subcommittee held a field hearing near San Onofre Nuclear 
Generating Station highlighting the challenges of the United 
States not currently having a permanent solution to nuclear 
waste storage. The hearing also addressed concerns about the 
placement of interim storage sites and how local communities 
could be negatively impacted.
    The hearing highlighted the need for a solution to the 
United States' nuclear waste challenges, such as the 
development of interim storage facilities through non-federal 
entities, as proposed in H.R. 8572.

                         IV. NATURAL DISASTERS

    Administration's Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season. The 
Subcommittee worked in collaboration with the full Committee to 
continue with the Committee's investigation to the 
Administration's response and recovery efforts to the 2017 
hurricane season.
    On June 25, 2019, the Subcommittee heard testimony from 
representatives from Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the 
City of Houston, Texas, as well as a former FEMA Director, to 
highlight ongoing recovery challenges in their respective areas 
and recommend steps that FEMA can take to improve disaster 
recovery and response.
    At a hearing on July 24, 2020, the Subcommittee highlighted 
the incredibly slow, and at times, dire state of recovery in 
the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and pressed FEMA for 
action.
    Disaster Response and Recovery in the Wake of Climate 
Change. The Subcommittee pressed FEMA on the issue of climate 
change, with the goal of making the federal agency take climate 
change into consideration when the agency is preparing for 
natural disasters. At a hearing on June 25, 2019, the 
Subcommittee heard testimony from an expert on climate change 
who raised concerns about how climate change is already causing 
natural disasters to be more severe and more frequent, 
underscoring the need for FEMA to factor climate change into 
disaster planning. During a hearing with the FEMA Administrator 
on July 24, 2020, the Subcommittee obtained an acknowledgement 
from the Administrator that climate change was occurring and 
pressed the Administration on how the agency factors in climate 
change into their disaster planning.
    The Subcommittee's hearings underscored the need for all 
federal agencies to factor climate adaptation into their 
planning, as proposed by Chairwoman Maloney and Subcommittee 
Chairman Rouda in H.R. 8429, The Federal Agency Climate PREP 
Act.

  V. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES

    Climate change. In April 2019, the Subcommittee launched a 
series of hearings to examine climate change through three 
phases: (1) the history of inaction on climate change; (2) the 
current impact of climate change; and (3) the benefits and 
costs of action on climate change versus inaction. The purpose 
of the series of hearings was to highlight the urgency for 
climate action.
    On April 9, 2019, the Subcommittee held a hearing with 
experts and a former U.S. Senator regarding the history of 
inaction on climate change, including the role of the fossil 
fuel industry in defeating congressional climate action. In 
hearings and briefings that were conducted on April 30, 2019, 
June 25, 2019, and December 19, 2019, the Subcommittee heard 
from experts, health practitioners, and former federal 
government officials regarding the current impacts of climate 
change on public health, the economy, and natural disasters. On 
September 24, 2020, the Subcommittee held a hearing where the 
Subcommittee heard from experts and state and local government 
officials. That hearing was focused on solutions to the climate 
crisis, such as economic incentives to advance a transition to 
a green economy. That hearing also explored some of the dire 
consequences of inaction on Americans' health and the economy.
    The series of hearings culminated in the introduction of 
the first part of the ``COR Climate Agenda.'' In addition, the 
Subcommittee concluded the climate change series by working 
with the full Committee to issue state reports regarding the 
health benefits (i.e., avoided deaths and avoided hospital 
visits) of meeting the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement 
for each state.

   VI. PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT ACTIONS AND POLICIES

    Coronavirus. The Subcommittee has investigated the actions 
by the Trump Administration during the coronavirus pandemic 
that put the health of Americans further at risk. On April 22, 
2020, the Subcommittee sent a document request to EPA on the 
agency's decision to suspend enforcement of many environmental 
laws and regulations during the pandemic. On May 28, 2020, the 
Subcommittee released a video report, which included 
conversations with a public health expert, a state government 
official, and a community advocate voicing concerns that the 
actions of EPA could have put the health of communities of 
color at increased risk.
    On July 8, 2020, the Subcommittee held a briefing with 
advocates, former federal officials, and persons affected by 
the United States reliance on plastics. Briefers informed the 
Subcommittee regarding how fenceline communities, which are 
often communities of color, bear the brunt of the impact from 
the plastics and petrochemical industries at a disproportionate 
rate, and these same communities face an increased risk for 
negative coronavirus outcomes.
    On October 5, 2020, the Subcommittee sent a letter to the 
CDC requesting a national moratorium on water shutoffs. The 
Subcommittee also released a video report, which included 
conversations with advocates as well as Americans who have been 
personally impacted by water shutoffs during the pandemic, 
further underscoring the need for federal action.
    The Subcommittee's investigation, briefing, and video 
reports emphasized the need for all federal agencies to 
prioritize the public health of Americans while taking actions 
or considering new policies during the coronavirus pandemic.

          F. Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties


                            I. VOTING RIGHTS

    During the 116th Congress, the Subcommittee worked closely 
with the full Committee on its oversight related to voting 
rights described above. In addition, the Subcommittee has 
ongoing investigations into ten states' compliance with the 
National Voter Registration Act's requirement that people 
applying for health care through the Affordable Care Act 
marketplaces be provided an opportunity to register to vote.
    The Committee held a hearing on the best and worst voting 
rights practices in order to highlight several key reforms 
included in H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019. In October 
2020, the Subcommittee issued a staff report entitled ``20 Ways 
to Secure a Full and Fair Election During the Coronavirus 
Pandemic,'' which highlighted some of those best practices. The 
report described steps that individuals, local governments, 
state governments, and businesses could take to minimize 
threats to the exercise of voting rights during the November 
2020 election. That report was accompanied by a video report 
featuring several Members of Congress.

          II. FREEDOM OF RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, AND ASSEMBLY

    On July 23, 2019, Subcommittee Chairman Jamie Raskin 
introduced legislation, H. Res. 512, Calling for the Global 
Repeal of Blasphemy, Heresy, and Apostasy Laws. The 
Subcommittee held a bipartisan hearing on that resolution in 
January 2020 that spotlighted the persecution of religious 
minorities and atheists around the world.
    On June 29, 2020, the Subcommittee also held a formal 
Member briefing on First Amendment violations that occurred at 
anti-police brutality protests around the country. The briefing 
featured people who were present at Lafayette Square when 
President Trump had the area cleared for a photo opportunity, 
were injured by police while protesting or covering protests, 
or were unjustifiably arrested. The Subcommittee also launched 
related investigations into the use of federal resources to 
surveille and police protests across the country. Those 
investigations are ongoing.

 III. EQUAL PROTECTION AND RESPECT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS THROUGHOUT SOCIETY

    The Subcommittee held four hearings focusing on the 
disturbing rise of violent white supremacy, beginning with a 
hearing in May 2019 that featured former law enforcement 
professionals and the mother of a woman killed by white 
supremacists. That hearing highlighted the lack of a robust 
federal response. The second hearing was held in June 2019 and 
featured testimony from DHS and the FBI. At that hearing, 
Committee Members pressed the agencies to develop comprehensive 
plans to address the rise in hate. In September 2019, following 
that hearing, DHS issued a strategic framework that, for the 
first time, identified white supremacy as a major threat 
requiring federal attention. That same month, the Subcommittee 
held a hearing focusing on the global nature of that terror 
threat. Finally, the Subcommittee held a hearing in September 
2020 highlighting the prevalence of white supremacist ideology 
in law enforcement. At the September hearing, Chairman Jamie 
Raskin released a long-sought, unredacted FBI report detailing 
efforts by white supremacists to infiltrate law enforcement 
agencies.
    During the 116th Congress, the Subcommittee launched three 
related investigations, which are ongoing. First, the 
Subcommittee is conducting oversight of DHS's Terrorism and 
Targeted Violence Prevention plan. Second, the Subcommittee is 
conducting oversight of the FBI's failure to ensure its hate 
crimes data collection is robust and complete. Third, the 
Subcommittee is investigating eight police departments around 
the country which were found to have employed officers who 
posted racist, homophobic, or otherwise virulent content on 
social media, calling into question their ability to fairly 
police the communities they served.
    The Subcommittee also conducted oversight of multiple 
federal agencies, including HHS, the Department of Labor, the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the 
Department of Education, and pressed for the reversal of 
several administrative decisions harmful to the LGBTQ+ 
community in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock 
vs. Clayton County.

                          IV. PROPERTY RIGHTS

    On February 19, 2020, the Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
(FERC) abuse of ``tolling orders'' that prevent private 
landowners from challenging eminent domain proceedings sought 
by natural gas pipeline companies. The investigation revealed 
that FERC routinely rubber-stamped pipeline company requests to 
construct new pipelines. The investigation also revealed that 
FERC routinely issued ``tolling orders'' to landowners who 
appealed. Rather than issuing a decision within 30 days as 
required by statute, FERC delayed a decision for an average of 
212 days, during which time pipeline companies are able to seek 
eminent domain or begin irrevocable construction activity on 
private land. On April 28, 2020, the Subcommittee issued a 
video report with its findings. The report was cited in a 
federal court decision barring FERC from continuing with its 
abuse of tolling orders.

                             V. IMMIGRATION

    The Subcommittee has worked closely with the full Committee 
on Immigration oversight. In addition, the Subcommittee held 
multiple hearings on the Trump Administration's deadly 
immigration policies, beginning with a July 19, 2019, hearing 
on the Trump Administration's decision to separate children 
from their families and the provision of substandard medical 
care. This hearing was part of the Committee's ongoing 
oversight into family separations. The Subcommittee heard 
testimony from a mother whose infant daughter died after not 
receiving proper medical care while in the custody of ICE, as 
well as from doctors and advocates who testified as to the 
long-term psychological impact the separations would have on 
immigrant children.
    In addition, the Subcommittee held two hearings on the 
Administration's decision to stop granting deferred action, 
including to children with life-threatening illnesses. The 
first of those hearings featured immigrants whose lives would 
be in danger if they were deported to countries where they 
could not receive the necessary medical care, as well as two 
career officials from ICE and Citizenship and Immigration 
Services, neither of whom were prepared to answer the necessary 
questions. The second of those hearings included testimony from 
the heads of both agencies. Following intense pressure from the 
Subcommittee and the full Committee, DHS reversed this 
disastrous decision and resumed granting deferred action 
requests.
    The Subcommittee also launched an investigation into 
reports of medical mistreatment at ICE facilities and a related 
investigation into DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties. While document production is ongoing, documents 
provided as part of this inquiry were used in the joint 
Committee and Subcommittee staff report, ``The Trump 
Administration's Mistreatment of Detained Immigrants: Deaths 
and Deficient Medical Care by For-Profit Detention 
Contractors,'' released on September 24, 2020.
    The Subcommittee also conducted oversight of DHS's apparent 
failure to properly plan for and prevent outbreaks of 
coronavirus in its detention facilities. While the Department 
has refused to provide the information requested by the 
Subcommittee, the Subcommittee was able to conclude, and 
release findings noting, that the Department repeatedly misled 
Committee Members and the public about its compliance with 
public health guidelines on coronavirus prevention.
    The Subcommittee is also working with the full Committee 
and the Committee on Homeland Security on an ongoing 
investigation into allegations that women detained at the Irwin 
County Detention Center were subjected to unnecessary and non-
consensual gynecological medical procedures.

                               VI. CENSUS

    The Subcommittee has worked closely with the full Committee 
on Census oversight. In addition, the Subcommittee held two 
hearings in 2019 on the need for a complete and accurate 
Census. The first was a field hearing held on May 28, 2019, in 
New York City with 11 witnesses, including City officials, 
advocates, and community leaders, to explore how Census data is 
used by leaders and businesses around the country, and to 
identify the greatest barriers--unrelated to the citizenship 
question--that threatened an accurate count.
    The Subcommittee followed up that field hearing with a July 
24, 2019, hearing in Washington, D.C. at which GAO provided 
testimony that highlighted key vulnerabilities in the Decennial 
Census plan, and at which Members questioned the Director of 
the Bureau on those vulnerabilities, anticipated deficiencies, 
and the difficulties raised in the New York hearing.
    In addition, the Subcommittee received regular briefings 
from GAO and the Bureau on the operational and technological 
preparedness and execution of the Census.
    The Subcommittee also spearheaded the development of Census 
district reports that quantified the potential loss of federal 
funding for congressional districts around the country if the 
decennial Census undercounted their communities by one percent. 
In conjunction with the full Committee, the Subcommittee 
produced reports for 98 congressional districts, 11 states, and 
the City of New York.
    The Subcommittee also worked with representatives from the 
Bureau and several organizations representing colleges and 
universities to identify solutions to help promote a complete 
count of college campuses during the coronavirus pandemic. The 
results of this effort were included in H.R. 7034, The Fair and 
Accurate Census Act, of which Chairman Jamie Raskin is an 
original co-sponsor, H.R. 6800, the HEROES Act, and H.R. 7974, 
The Fair and Accurate Census Act (Updated), of which Chairman 
Jamie Raskin is an original co-sponsor.

                      VII. CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

    The Subcommittee held a hearing on the Fair Chance to 
Compete for Jobs Act of 2019, highlighting the need for the 
federal government to removing criminal background questions 
from the early stages of applications for various federal jobs. 
The bill would give people who had paid for their crimes to 
have a better chance at getting a job to support their families 
and prevent recidivism. The bill passed into law in December 
2019.

       VI. SUMMARY OF ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS

    In addition to topics and matters referenced in the 
Committee's Oversight Plan, the Committee engaged in the 
following oversight activities and actions during the 116th 
Congress.

 A. Additional Oversight and Investigations of the Full Committee and 
                         Standing Subcommittees


                        I. CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

    The full Committee conducted robust oversight of the 
federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic in 
the 116th Congress. Along with the Subcommittee on Economic and 
Consumer Policy and the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
Crisis, the full Committee investigated contracts between the 
federal government and pharmaceutical companies for the 
development of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, HHS's use 
of taxpayer dollars to fund a politically motivated advertising 
campaign to ``Defeat Despair'' about the pandemic, and other 
issues.
    On March 3, 2020, Chairwoman Maloney, National Security 
Subcommittee Chairman Lynch, Economic, Consumer Protection 
Subcommittee Chairman Krishnamoorthi, and Government Operations 
Subcommittee Chairman Connolly sent letters to HHS, CMS, and 
the CDC seeking information about the Trump Administration's 
initial handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
    On March 11 and 12, 2020, the full Committee held a hearing 
at which Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 
Institutes of Health, Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other officials 
and experts provided testimony on the Trump Administration's 
preparedness for, and response to, the outbreak of the 
coronavirus pandemic.
    The Committee also conducted a joint investigation with 
Senator Elizabeth Warren on the impact of the coronavirus 
pandemic on staff and residents of congregate care facilities. 
Chairwoman Maloney, Senator Warren, and Committee Member Rep. 
Katie Porter released two joint staff reports, on July 2, 2020, 
and December 1, 2020, presenting the findings from surveys of 
assisted living facilities and behavioral health and addiction 
treatment facilities, along with policy recommendations for 
improving the safety of residents and staff of these 
facilities.
    The Committee also investigated widespread shortages of 
personal protective equipment, severe shortfalls with 
ventilators and other critical medical equipment, and a 
dangerous lack of hospital bed capacity. The Committee found 
severe shortfalls and released documents obtained from FEMA 
showing that the agency provided only a fraction of the 
personal protective equipment and critical medical supplies 
requested by five states and the District of Columbia. The 
Committee then released a document from the HHS detailing the 
Administration's insufficient distribution of personal 
protective equipment and critical medical supplies to states 
from the Strategic National Stockpile.
    The Committee and the Subcommittee on Environment 
investigated the EPA's unprecedented decision to suspend 
enforcement of environmental laws during the coronavirus 
pandemic. The Committee received documents from the EPA.

      II. PRESIDENT'S ABUSE OF POWER AND OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS 
                             (IMPEACHMENT)

    In September 2019, in coordination with the House Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, the Committee began investigating a months-long effort 
by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit 
foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election. The 
Committees uncovered substantial evidence that President Trump 
demanded that the newly elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr 
Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political 
rival that he apparently feared the most, then-former Vice 
President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was 
Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential 
election. President Trump conditioned two official acts on the 
public announcement of the investigations: a coveted White 
House visit and critical U.S. military assistance Ukraine 
needed to fight its Russian adversary.
    During a July 25, 2019, phone call with President Trump, 
President Zelensky expressed gratitude for U.S. military 
assistance. President Trump immediately responded by asking 
President Zelensky to ``do us a favor though'' and openly 
pressed for Ukraine to investigate then-former Vice President 
Biden and the 2016 conspiracy theory. In turn, President 
Zelensky assured President Trump that he would pursue the 
investigation and reiterated his interest in the White House 
meeting.
    As news of the President's hold on military assistance to 
Ukraine became public on August 28, 2019, Congress, the press, 
and the public increased their scrutiny of President Trump's 
actions regarding Ukraine. By this date, the White House had 
learned that the Inspector General of the Intelligence 
Community (ICIG), Michael Atkinson, had determined that a 
whistleblower complaint related to the same Ukraine matters was 
``credible'' and an ``urgent concern,'' and, pursuant to the 
applicable statute, recommended to the Acting Director of DNI, 
Joseph Maguire, that the complaint should be transmitted to 
Congress.
    In early September, bipartisan Members of both houses of 
Congress--publicly and privately--expressed concerns to the 
White House about the hold on military assistance. On September 
9, 2019, after months of internal discussion due to growing 
concern about the activity of President Trump's personal 
attorney, Rudy Giuliani, regarding Ukraine, the Chairs of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
announced a joint investigation into efforts by President Trump 
and Mr. Giuliani ``to improperly pressure the Ukrainian 
government to assist the President's bid for reelection,'' 
including by withholding Congressionally-appropriated military 
assistance.
    Later that same day, the ICIG notified Chairman Schiff and 
Ranking Member Nunes that, despite uniform past practice and a 
statutory requirement that credible, ``urgent concern'' 
complaints be provided to the intelligence committees, the 
Acting DNI was nevertheless withholding the whistleblower 
complaint from Congress. The Acting DNI later testified that 
his office initially withheld the complaint on the advice of 
the White House, with guidance from DOJ.
    On October 31, 2019, Congress passed H. Res. 660 formally 
directing the Intelligence Committee, in consultation with the 
Committees on Oversight and Reform and Foreign Affairs, to 
continue its investigation as part of the House of 
Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds existed 
for the House to impeach President Trump and transmit a report, 
evidence and materials to the Judiciary Committee for its 
consideration of possible articles of impeachment.
    The Committees conducted this investigation ensuring the 
full participation of both parties throughout the probe. 
Together, the three Committees issued dozens of subpoenas for 
documents and testimony and took more than 100 hours of 
deposition testimony from 17 witnesses. The Intelligence 
Committee held seven public hearings, with the support of the 
Oversight and the Foreign Affairs Committees, receiving 
testimony from 12 witnesses--including three requested by the 
Republican Minority--that totaled more than 30 hours.
    On December 3, 2019, the Committee on Intelligence, in 
coordination with the Committees on Oversight and Reform and 
Foreign Affairs, issued a report on the joint impeachment 
inquiry. The report was written by the staffs of the Oversight 
and Reform, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs Committees. The 
report was transmitted along with accompanying materials to the 
House Committee on the Judiciary consistent with H. Res. 660.
    On December 10, 2019, as a result of the Committees' 
investigation, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler 
introduced H. Res. 755, Impeaching Donald John Trump, President 
of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. That 
resolution included two articles of impeachment. Article I of 
the resolution charged the President with abuse of power by 
soliciting the interference of Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. 
presidential election, and Article II of the resolution charged 
the President with obstruction of Congress by directing 
defiance of certain subpoenas issued by the House of 
Representatives. The House passed both articles on December 18, 
2019, by votes of 229 to 198 and 230 to 197, respectively, with 
one Member voting present for each.
    The articles of impeachment were referred to the Senate, 
which held a trial. Oversight and Reform Committee staff 
supported the House Managers throughout the trial. On February 
5, 2020, the Senate voted to find President Trump not guilty in 
the first Article of Impeachment by a vote of 48 to 52, and not 
guilty in the second Article of Impeachment by a vote of 47 to 
53. Republican Senator Mitt Romney joined all Democratic 
Members of the Senate in voting to hold President Trump guilty 
of the first Article of Impeachment.

            III. SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IN HEALTH POLICYMAKING

    The Committee conducted oversight into administrative 
actions that threatened to undermine scientific integrity in 
the federal government's stewardship of public health. For 
example, the Committee joined with the House Energy and 
Commerce Committee and the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in sending letters to 
HHS requesting documents regarding administrative restrictions 
on research that relies on fetal tissue and urging HHS to lift 
restrictions on this research. On September 14, 2020, 
Chairwoman Maloney released documents showing the role of the 
White House in advancing these restrictions, despite career HHS 
officials' assessment of the scientific value of this research.

                   IV. INSPECTOR GENERAL INDEPENDENCE

    Department of Homeland Security Inspector General. In 
response to unusual delays in the release of DHS IG reports, 
including reports on the Trump Administration's immigrant child 
separation policy, the Committee launched an investigation of 
the DHS Inspector General in March 2020. The Committee also 
received reports of concerns with the independence of the DHS 
IG from the Department. The Committee received thousands of 
documents, and Committee staff continue to engage with DHS IG 
staff regarding these matters.
    State Department Inspector General Firing. After President 
Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on 
May 15, 2020, the Committee launched a joint investigation into 
this decision with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign 
Relations.
    As part of this investigation, the Committees requested 
documents from the State Department and State Department IG. 
The Committees conducted transcribed interviews of four 
witnesses: Mr. Linick, former State Department official Charles 
Faulkner, and State Department officials Lisa Kenna and Toni 
Porter. The Committees uncovered evidence showing that 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may have recommended Mr. 
Linick's firing to attempt to interfere with ongoing 
investigations into misuse of government resources by Secretary 
Pompeo and his wife, as well as other matters including 
Secretary Pompeo's role in a 2019 emergency declaration 
allowing the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United 
Arab Emirates.
    Department of Transportation Inspector General Firing. 
After President Trump removed Acting Inspector General Mitch 
Behm from his position as Acting IG of DOT on May 15, 2020, the 
Committee launched a joint investigation into this decision 
with the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 
The investigation focused on whether Mr. Behm's removal may 
have been for the purpose of interfering with the DOT's IG's 
open investigations into the Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation Elaine Chao. The Committees requested that the 
new Acting DOT IG, Howard R. Elliott, report to the committees 
any changes to the status, scope, or investigative plan any 
audits, inspections, evaluations, reviews, or other engagements 
during his tenure. This investigation remains ongoing.

               V. FEDERAL VACANCIES AND ACTING OFFICIALS

    Following the Trump Administration's purge of DHS 
leadership in April 2019 and the use of acting officials in the 
senior leadership at the agency, the Committee requested 
documents regarding these firings and installation of acting 
officials. In November 2019, the Committee uncovered documents 
showing that Acting Secretaries of DHS Kevin McAleenan and Chad 
Wolf, as well as Ken Cuccinelli, the Senior Official Performing 
the Duties of the Deputy Secretary, appeared to have legally 
invalid appointments. GAO confirmed this finding in a legal 
opinion issued in August 2020.
    In light of the widespread and unprecedented use of acting 
officials throughout the Trump Administration, Chairwoman 
Maloney, Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman 
Connolly, and several other House Committee Chairs joined Rep. 
Katie Porter in introducing H.R. 6689, the Accountability for 
Acting Officials Act, on May 1, 2020.

                   VI. FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY

    The Committee continued its examination of government use 
of facial recognition technology in order to more fully 
understand the scope of the government's current use, and the 
effect of such use, on civil rights and civil liberties.
    As part of its oversight, the Committee held three hearings 
on facial recognition technology on May 22, 2019, June 4, 2019, 
and January 15, 2020. At the June 4, 2019, hearing, the 
Committee received testimony from advocates and academics on 
the civil liberties and civil rights implications of government 
use of facial recognition technology. At that hearing, the 
Committee received testimony from officials at the FBI, GAO, 
NIST and TSA on the scope of government use of facial 
recognition. At the January 15, 2020, hearing, the Committee 
received testimony from the Director of the NIST, the Director 
of NYU's AI Now Institute, and three industry representatives 
on the racial disparities across facial recognition systems.
    On November 25, 2019, the Committee requested that GAO 
conduct a comprehensive survey of federal government use of 
facial recognition technology. GAO anticipates that it will be 
able to provide preliminary results in 2021.

                 VII. PAID LEAVE FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

    The Committee worked closely with the Committee on Armed 
Services to ensure that the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2020 included a provision guaranteeing 12 weeks 
of paid parental leave for federal employees (P.L. 116-92). The 
provision took effect on October 1, 2020. The provision was 
included in H.R. 1534, the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, 
introduced by Chairwoman Maloney on March 5, 2019. That 
legislation would create a broader benefit to make federal 
employees eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave for any reason 
such leave is available under the Family and Medical Leave Act 
(FMLA). The Committee will continue to work to enact 
comprehensive paid leave for federal employees, entitling them 
to paid leave in the event of illness, illness of a family 
member, or military deployment. The Committee has also been 
instrumental in making sure that paid leave benefits extend to 
the entire federal workforce, not just employees covered by 
Title 5, U.S.C.

                         VIII. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

    During the 116th Congress, the full Committee and the 
Subcommittees on Government Operations, Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties, Economic and Consumer Policy, and Environment held a 
coordinated a series of five hearings examining childhood 
trauma and assessing the detrimental impact of the Trump 
Administration's actions on child poverty, housing, hunger, and 
health.
    On July 11, 2019, the full Committee held a hearing at 
which trauma survivors, public health experts, and government 
officials provided testimony regarding the long-term 
consequences of childhood trauma and the insufficiency of the 
federal response to this urgent public health issue.
    On February 5, 2020, the Subcommittee on Government 
Operations held a hearing, which examined how children would be 
negatively impacted by the Trump Administration's proposal to 
change how the Official Poverty Measure is calculated. This 
hearing was held after the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) requested public comments on the Census Bureau's 
estimation of the Official Poverty Measure, including on 
alternative measures of inflation that could be used to 
calculate the poverty line in lieu of the Consumer Price Index 
(CPI). The Government Operations Subcommittee heard testimony 
from experts and advocates on how the Trump Administration's 
proposal to use an inflation measure other than the CPI could 
lower income-eligibility cutoffs for families that rely on 
critical federal support programs, ultimately reducing or 
eliminating essential services for millions of individuals, 
including hundreds of thousands of children.
    On February 5, 2020, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and 
Civil Liberties held the third hearing in this series. This 
hearing focused on the Trump Administration's proposal to 
redefine the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision of 
the Fair Housing Act, which requires entities receiving grants 
from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to 
``affirmatively further'' equal housing opportunity for all. 
The Trump Administration's rule change would reduce the rigor 
and accountability of HUD's fair housing oversight. The Civil 
Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing examined how 
children could be harmed by this proposal.
    On February 6, 2020, the Subcommittee on Economic and 
Consumer Policy held the fourth hearing in this series and 
examined a rule proposed by the Trump Administration to limit 
authorities available to states to expand eligibility for SNAP. 
SNAP is the nation's largest food assistance program, providing 
nutrition benefits to 42 million people with low incomes. More 
than 68 percent of SNAP participants reside in families with 
children. According to an analysis from the Department of 
Agriculture, 684,000 households with children would lose SNAP 
eligibility if Broad Based Categorical Eligibility is 
eliminated. The analysis also found that nearly a million 
children would likely lose direct enrollment in programs that 
provide no-cost school meals. The Subcommittee received 
testimony on how the Trump Administration's proposal would 
aggravate food insecurity among children both at home and at 
school.
    On February 6, 2020, the Subcommittee on Environment held 
the fifth hearing in this series and examined the effectiveness 
of the current Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule in 
protecting children's health. The MATS rule, finalized in 2012, 
restricts the amount of mercury and other toxic emissions that 
can be released by coal- and oil-fired power plants. A 
significant indirect health benefit of the MATS rule is that it 
reduces the amount of fine particulate matter pollution in the 
atmosphere, including methylmercury exposure. Despite the 
proven health benefits of the MATS rule, in 2018 the 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would 
be revising the Supplemental Cost Finding for the MATS rule, 
which included a determination that the significant health 
benefits and lives saved from reduced emissions of fine 
particulate matter should not be counted. The Environment 
Subcommittee's hearing examined how children would be harmed by 
the Trump Administration's effort to undermine the MATS rule.
    On October 9, 2020, in response to the Trump 
Administration's actions and information learned through this 
series of hearings, Chairwoman Maloney introduced H.R. 8565, 
The Children's Protection Act, which would require proposed 
federal rules to undergo a childhood trauma impact study before 
being finalized to ensure that the health, wellbeing, and 
futures of all children in America are prioritized. On October 
6, 2020, Committee Member Ayanna Pressley also introduced H.R., 
8544, the STRONG Support for Children Act, which would 
establish two new grant programs to support local Public Health 
Departments in addressing trauma and ensure that programming is 
conveniently located and accessible to all children and 
families regardless of immigration status, ability to pay, and 
prior involvement in the criminal legal system.

 B. Oversight Activities of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus 
                                 Crisis


                 I. WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE

    In July 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into weekly reports that the White House 
Coronavirus Task Force sent privately to states but did not 
release to the public. These reports described the coronavirus 
outbreak in each state and recommended public health measures 
to address it. In August and October 2020, the Select 
Subcommittee released reports obtained from the Task Force, 
which revealed that the coronavirus outbreak across the country 
was more severe than some White House officials had publicly 
acknowledged. The reports also recommended that states adopt 
public health measures, such as mask mandates, that some 
Administration officials had not embraced in public. In 
September 2020, the Select Subcommittee released an analysis 
showing that public health guidance had been softened in 
certain weekly Task Force reports, even as infection rates were 
increasing in those states.
    The Select Subcommittee held three hearings with members of 
the White House Coronavirus Task Force on testing, personal 
protective equipment (PPE), and the need for a national plan to 
combat the pandemic. These hearings included a July 2, 2020, 
hearing with HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett 
Giroir, Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, and Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition Kevin Fahey; a July 31, 2020, hearing 
with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 
Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, 
and Assistant Secretary Giroir; and an October 2, 2020, hearing 
with HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II.

                   II. LOAN TO EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

    The full Committee, the Select Subcommittee, and the 
Committee on Financial Services investigated a proposed a $765 
million federal loan from the U.S. International Development 
Finance Corporation (DFC) to Eastman Kodak Company to 
manufacture generic drug ingredients, as well as unusual 
trading activity by Kodak directors and executives prior to the 
public announcement of the loan on July 28, 2020.
    On August 4, 2020, the Committees sent letters to Kodak and 
DFC requesting documents and information about the proposed 
loan and the associated trading activity. DFC subsequently 
announced that that the loan was being put on hold. On 
September 28, 2020, the Committees sent follow-up letters to 
Kodak's outside directors, requesting documents and information 
regarding their involvement in efforts to obtain the loan and 
related securities activity.

                       III. OPERATION WARP SPEED

    On July 24, 2020, Select Subcommittee Chairman James E. 
Clyburn led a bipartisan request, along with Rep. Bill Foster 
and Rep. Mark Green, to Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro 
calling on GAO to conduct ongoing oversight of Operation Warp 
Speed and other vaccine-development initiatives. On July 28, 
2020, GAO accepted the engagement. On September 15, 2020, the 
Select Subcommittee wrote to HHS and DOD calling for the 
Departments to comply with this review.
    On August 12, 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
inquiry into vaccine selection and potential conflicts of 
interest among senior advisors to Operation Warp Speed. 
Operation Warp Speed hired several former pharmaceutical 
company executives, including Dr. Moncef Slaoui, as independent 
contractors through a company called Advanced Decision Vectors 
(ADV). Because they were not federal employees, these 
individuals were not required to disclose their financial 
holdings and potential conflicts of interest.
    In September 2020, Chairman Clyburn sent a follow-up letter 
to ADV urging compliance with the Select Subcommittee's 
requests. Chairman Clyburn also released documents obtained in 
this investigation. The documents revealed that advisors to 
Operation Warp Speed had potential conflicts of interest that 
had not previously been publicly disclosed. For example, Dr. 
Slaoui reported holdings in Lonza Group, a biotechnology 
company that has agreed to manufacture Moderna's experimental 
coronavirus vaccine. Other advisors had holdings in Pfizer, 
which received a $1.95 billion order from the federal 
government for a coronavirus vaccine; Thermo Fisher Scientific, 
Inc., which received federal funding for coronavirus testing 
materials; and other companies developing coronavirus 
therapies. Dr. Slaoui also owns stock in GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), 
which is receiving federal funding to develop a coronavirus 
vaccine. Documents released by the Select Subcommittee reveal 
that rather than divest these holdings, Dr. Slaoui is only 
required to donate a portion of his earnings from GSK 
securities after his death.

              IV. POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

    The Select Subcommittee investigated instances of 
potentially inappropriate political interference by Trump 
Administration appointees into the federal government's 
pandemic response. On June 22, 2020, the Select Subcommittee 
opened an inquiry into possible efforts to limit coronavirus 
testing after President Trump stated that he had directed 
people to ``slow the testing down.'' Three days later, Chairman 
Clyburn and Representatives from Texas, Colorado, Illinois, New 
Jersey, and Pennsylvania wrote to Secretary Azar to urge him to 
reverse the Administration's decision to end federal funding 
and support for coronavirus testing sites in these states. 
Following these letters, the Administration agreed to restore 
temporary support for five Texas testing sites for another 
month.
    On September 14, 2020, the Select Subcommittee opened an 
investigation into reports of interference by HHS political 
appointees in CDC's scientific reports and guidance related to 
the coronavirus. The Select Subcommittee sought documents and 
transcribed interviews with five CDC employees and two HHS 
appointees, Assistant Secretary Marc Caputo and Dr. Paul 
Alexander. HHS then announced that both appointees were leaving 
their roles. Mr. Caputo took a leave of absence, while Dr. 
Alexander left the Department permanently.
    On October 2, 2020, the Select Subcommittee released a 
staff analysis identifying 47 instances of political 
interference in the Administration's response to the 
coronavirus pandemic from February through September 2020. This 
analysis was updated in the Subcommittee's October 30, 2020, 
interim report to include a total of 61 instances of political 
interference.

                V. HHS CORONAVIRUS ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

    In September 2020, the Select Subcommittee, the full 
Committee, and the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy 
opened an investigation into two federal contracts for an 
advertising campaign to ``defeat despair and inspire hope'' to 
be launched just weeks before Election Day. On October 2, 2020, 
during his testimony before the Select Subcommittee, HHS 
Secretary Azar announced that he had placed these contracts 
under ``strategic review'' to ``determine whether the campaign 
serves important public health purposes.''
    On October 28, 2020, the Committees released documents 
showing that Administration officials had vetted celebrities 
for participation in the promotional campaign based on their 
political views and taken other steps suggesting a partisan 
political motivation for the contracts. On November 13, 2020, 
HHS announced that it had cancelled one of the contracts and 
made changes to the second contract.

                VI. CHALLENGES TO REOPENING K-12 SCHOOLS

    In July 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into the challenges of reopening K-12 schools 
during the pandemic, including the roles played by the 
Department of Education and CDC. On August 6, 2020, Select 
Subcommittee held a hearing on the health risks to students, 
school staff, and their communities from physically reopening 
K-12 schools, as well as the logistical and financial hurdles 
involved in doing so.
    On September 30, 2020, the Select Subcommittee sent a 
document request for information and documents to the Trump 
Administration regarding reports of political interference in 
the CDC school reopening guidance. In response, CDC 
acknowledged that its guidance did not reflect the current 
science on coronavirus risks to children and committed to 
change it. CDC subsequently removed from its website two 
guidance documents that contained misleading information 
regarding the risk of children transmitting the virus.

               VII. FARMERS TO FAMILIES FOOD BOX PROGRAM

    On August 24, 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into reports of mismanagement in the Farmers to 
Families Food Box Program, a USDA program intended to provide 
food assistance to Americans in need during the coronavirus 
crisis. The investigation sought to assess whether the new 
program achieved its goal of delivering food to communities 
experiencing food insecurity. The investigation also sought to 
identify reported management and accountability gaps. As part 
of the investigation, the Select Subcommittee requested 
documents from USDA and companies that received multi-million-
dollar contracts to deliver food to food banks and other non-
profits serving families in need. In November 2020, the Select 
Subcommittee released information raising additional questions 
about whether one USDA contractor submitted accurate 
information to USDA and ensured that all food boxes covered by 
its contract reached people in need.

                     VIII. ECONOMIC IMPACT PAYMENTS

    On July 8, 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into the implementation by Treasury and the IRS 
of Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) authorized by Congress in 
the CARES Act. The Subcommittee examined issues in EIP 
distribution, including the failure to provide EIPs to many 
Americans, mailings that confused some recipients, and 
interference with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
    The Subcommittee's investigation revealed that 
approximately nine million low-income individuals did not 
receive an EIP as of September 2020. Following the Select 
Subcommittee's requests, Treasury and IRS conducted outreach to 
notify these Americans how to apply online and extended the 
deadline to do so. The Treasury and IRS also took steps to try 
to resolve the interference with EITC claims and committed to 
additional steps to address distribution problems.

       IX. PROTECTING HOMEOWNERS AND RENTERS DURING THE PANDEMIC

    In July 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation of the steps taken by the Federal Housing Finance 
Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac to prevent Americans 
from losing their homes during the pandemic. The Select 
Subcommittee urged Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to take immediate 
steps to help homeowners and renters in homes with federally-
backed mortgages avoid foreclosure and eviction. To prevent 
evictions of tenants who were, at the time of the Select 
Subcommittee's investigation, past due on their rent, the 
Select Subcommittee called for the government-sponsored 
entities (GSEs) direct mortgage servicers to notify borrowers 
of the CARES Act notice requirement prior to evicting a tenant. 
The Select Subcommittee also requested that the GSEs direct 
mortgage servicers to notify borrowers of the terms and 
availability of mortgage forbearance.
    On October 16, 2020, the Select Subcommittee sent a letter 
urging FHFA to take urgent action to prevent foreclosures and 
released new information the Select Subcommittee obtained 
showing that as of August 2020, more than 31,000 seriously 
delinquent homeowners had not received forbearance.

         X. FREE, FAIR, AND SAFE ELECTIONS DURING THE PANDEMIC

    In August 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into efforts to prepare for the 2020 general 
election and follow CDC guidelines for safe elections during 
the coronavirus pandemic, particularly in certain states where 
voters faced serious impediments to casting their ballots 
during the 2020 primary election. The Select Subcommittee and 
the Committee on House Administration sent letters to four 
states--Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Wisconsin--where primary 
elections suffered long lines and polling worker shortages, 
among other problems.
    On September 9, 2020, the Select Subcommittee held a 
hearing on the importance of following CDC's guidance by 
providing safe polling places on Election Day and providing 
alternatives, such as voting by mail and dropbox and extended 
early voting. The same day, the Select Subcommittee released a 
staff report with new information on the risks of inadequate 
polling places and shortages of poll workers in Texas, Georgia, 
Florida, and Wisconsin. In some of these states, these risks 
were exacerbated by state policies restricting mail-in voting 
and early voting.

                    XI. PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM

    In June 2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an 
investigation into the Trump Administration's implementation of 
the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), following reports that 
the program favored large companies over the neediest small 
businesses. The Select Subcommittee sent letters to the Small 
Business Administration (SBA), Treasury, banking industry 
associations, and eight financial institutions: JPMorgan Chase, 
Citibank, PNC Bank, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Truist, Wells 
Fargo, and Santander. The Subcommittee obtained over 30,000 
pages of documents and detailed data on all 5.2 million loans 
approved by SBA.
    The Select Subcommittee released staff reports detailing 
its findings on September 1, 2020, and October 16, 2020. The 
Select Subcommittee found that implementation of the PPP by 
Treasury, SBA, and several large financial institutions 
resulted in minority and women-owned businesses facing 
obstacles to receiving PPP loans. Treasury privately encouraged 
banks to limit their PPP lending to existing customers. SBA and 
Treasury also failed to issue guidance to prioritize 
underserved markets, which Congress called for in the CARES 
Act.
    Based on an analysis of loan data, the Select Subcommittee 
also concluded that more than 22,500 PPP loans worth more than 
$4.2 billion issued by the Trump Administration could be 
subject to fraud, waste, or abuse. Chairman Clyburn referred 
these potentially fraudulent loans to the Inspectors General at 
Treasury and SBA for examination and called for the Inspectors 
General to conduct a review of the program's oversight and 
accountability mechanisms.

                   XII. EMERGENCY LENDING FACILITIES

    The Select Subcommittee held several hearings regarding the 
economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including 
hearings with former the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairs Ben 
Bernanke and Janet Yellen on July 17, 2020, Treasury Secretary 
Mnuchin on September 1, 2020, and Fed Chair Powell on September 
23, 2020.
    The Select Subcommittee also launched several 
investigations into emergency lending facilities implemented by 
the Fed and the Treasury using CARES Act funds. On August 6, 
2020, the Select Subcommittee launched an investigation the 
Main Street Lending Program. This inquiry confirmed public 
reports that disagreements between the Fed and the Treasury 
delayed the program's launch and constrained its ability to 
reach small and medium-sized businesses in need.
    The Select Subcommittee also investigated the Fed's 
corporate bond purchases. On September 23, 2020, the Select 
Subcommittee issued a staff report documenting how hundreds of 
companies that benefitted from these bond purchases laid off a 
total of more than one million workers and paid billions of 
dollars in dividends to shareholders, exacerbating inequality 
during the coronavirus crisis.

                     XIII. PAYROLL SUPPORT PROGRAM

    In July 2020, the Select Subcommittee opened an 
investigation into Treasury's implementation of the Payroll 
Support Program (PSP) following reports that Treasury provided 
PSP funds to more than a dozen airline industry contractors 
that engaged in mass layoffs. The Select Subcommittee reviewed 
thousands of documents from Treasury and four of the top 
aviation contractor recipients of PSP funds.
    The Select Subcommittee released a staff report on October 
9, 2020, which identified decisions by the Treasury that 
undermined the job-retention purpose of the program. The Select 
Subcommittee calculated that Treasury's actions led companies 
to lay off more than 16,500 aviation workers, over 15 percent 
of the aviation contractor workforce. Also, on October 9, 2020, 
the Select Subcommittee sent follow-up letters to several 
aviation contractors that received PSP funds urging them to 
halt any further layoffs or furloughs until the companies spent 
all remaining PSP funds. The Select Subcommittee received 
commitments to halt layoffs from four companies that 
collectively employ more than 30,000 workers and received 
approximately $595 million in federal payroll support.

                     C. Official Travel/Delegations

    The Full Committee led bipartisan staff delegations 
(STAFFDELs) to Arizona, California, Georgia, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, and Texas to conduct oversight inspections of DHS 
immigration detention facilities in August and September 2019. 
Committee staff inspected 22 DHS facilities in those six 
states, including 12 detention centers run by ICE and for-
profit contractors, seven Border Patrol stations, and three 
ports of entry operated by CBP.
    The Subcommittee on National Security led a congressional 
delegation (CODEL) that conducted oversight in Singapore, 
Indonesia, Australia, and Hawaii from August 27 to September 6, 
2019. The delegation visited U.S. military personnel stationed 
at Robertson Barracks in Darwin, Australia and met with anti-
money laundering officials and financial regulators in 
Singapore and Indonesia. The CODEL also met with U.S. Indo-
Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) leadership and toured Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) facilities while in Hawaii. The 
delegation was led by Subcommittee Chairman Stephen F. Lynch 
(D-MA) and included Subcommittee staff.
    The Subcommittee on National Security led a CODEL that 
conducted oversight in Algeria and Saudi Arabia from October 6 
to 11, 2019. In Saudi Arabia, the delegation met with Saudi 
officials to examine the U.S.-Saudi bilateral relationship and 
discuss regional security challenges of mutual concern. In 
Algeria, the CODEL met with State Department and Government of 
Algeria officials to examine how U.S. foreign assistance 
supports Algerian law enforcement and security agencies to help 
interdict and investigate a wide variety of crimes and 
terrorist activities. The delegation was led by Subcommittee 
Chairman Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) and included Subcommittee 
staff.
    The Full Committee led a STAFFDEL that conducted oversight 
at military bases that support F-35 aircraft in December 2019 
and January 2020. The delegation interviewed F-35 maintenance 
personnel to conduct oversight of unresolved issues with spare 
parts for F-35 aircraft.
    The Subcommittee on National Security led a CODEL that 
conducted oversight in Mali, Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia on 
January 16-24, 2020. The purpose of this trip was to conduct 
oversight of U.S. security and development assistance programs 
in Mali, as well as to meet with DOD and Department of State 
personnel in East Africa to examine how the United States is 
combatting terrorist threats in Somalia and promote security 
and stability in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. The CODEL also 
examined force optimization in the U.S. Africa Command area of 
responsibility, to include the impact on operations, risk to 
force, and logic behind force structure decisions. The 
delegation was led by Subcommittee Chairman Stephen F. Lynch 
(D-MA) and included Subcommittee staff.

                  D. State and District Level Reports

    In the 116th Congress, the Committee issued 238 state and 
district level staff reports for Members of the House. These 
reports covered the following investigations:
           Census: Committee staff issued 98 district 
        level reports and 11 state level reports detailing the 
        impacts that an undercount in the Census would have on 
        federal funding for programs such as Medicaid, CHIP, 
        Title IV-E, Title I, and WIOA.
           Drug Prices: Committee staff issued 19 state 
        level staff reports detailing the savings for states 
        and the average beneficiaries in those states if H.R. 
        3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, 
        becomes law. Issued with the majority staff of the 
        Committee on Ways and Means, these reports examined the 
        impact the legislation would have on the costs of 
        commonly used drugs for conditions such as 
        osteoporosis, blood clotting and strokes, diabetes, and 
        chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Committee staff 
        also issued 93 district level reports comparing the 
        prices of diabetes drugs in the U.S. to the prices in 
        Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The reports 
        also estimated potential savings to Medicare 
        beneficiaries and the Medicare program if diabetes 
        drugs had the same prices in the U.S. as they do 
        abroad.
           Climate: Committee staff issued 14 state 
        level staff reports detailing the health benefits if 
        the United States meets the goals of the Paris 
        Agreement. Using the research findings of Dr. Drew 
        Shindell, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth 
        Sciences at Duke University, these reports estimated 
        the number of premature deaths, emergency room visits 
        and hospitalizations for cardiovascular and respiratory 
        disease, and lost workdays that could be avoided over 
        the next 50 years if warming is kept below 2 degrees C.
           Homeowners: Committee staff issued three 
        district level reports detailing the impact of the 2017 
        Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on homeowners. These reports 
        examined the number of homeowners impacted by changes 
        in the ability to deduct interest on home equity loans, 
        as well as the number of homeowners who used to be able 
        to deduct their full property taxes but were no longer 
        able to do so under the new law.

      VII. HEARINGS HELD PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(n) OF HOUSE RULE XI

    Under House Rule XI clause 2(n):
    (1) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, 
shall hold at least one hearing during each 120-day period 
following the establishment of the committee on the topic of 
waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs 
which that committee may authorize; (2) A hearing described in 
subparagraph (1) shall include a focus on the most egregious 
instances of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement as 
documented by any report the committee has received from a 
Federal Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller 
General of the United States.
    During the 116th Congress, the Committee held the following 
hearings pursuant to this requirement:
    Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing on ``Effects 
of Vacancies at the Merit Systems Protection Board'' (February 
28, 2019). Witnesses: Ms. Valerie Brannon, Legislative 
Attorney, Congressional Research Service; Mr. Thomas Devine, 
Legal Director, Government Accountability Project; Mr. John 
Palguta, Former Director of Policy and Evaluation, Merit 
Systems Protection Board; Mr. Mark Robbins, Acting Chairman, 
Merit Systems Protection Board; Mr. John York, Policy Analyst, 
Heritage Foundation.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``GAO's 2019 High Risk Report'' 
(March 6, 2019). Witness: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General, Government Accountability Office.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's 
Response to the Drug Crisis'' (March 7, 2019). Witnesses: The 
Honorable James W. Carroll Jr., Director, Office of National 
Drug Control Policy; Mr. Mike McDaniel, Director, Houston High 
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area; Ms. Triana McNeil, Acting 
Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``FOIA: Examining Transparency 
Under the Trump Administration'' (March 13, 2019). Witnesses: 
Mr. Timothy R. Epp, Acting Director, National FOIA Office, 
Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency; Ms. 
Melanie Ann Pustay, Director, Office of Information Policy, 
Department of Justice; Ms. Rachel Spector, Acting Deputy Chief 
Freedom of Information Act Officer, Department of the Interior.
    Full Committee Hearing with Commerce Secretary, Wilbur L. 
Ross, Jr. (March 14, 2019). Witness: Wilbur Ross, Secretary, 
Department of Commerce.
    Subcommittee on National Security Hearing on ``Special 
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's 2019 High-
Risk List'' (April 3, 2019). Witness: The Honorable John F. 
Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
Reconstruction.
    Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Hearing on 
``Failure of Administration to Comply with Subpoenas on Child 
Separation Policy'' (April 9, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Christine Ciccone, Assistant Secretary for the Office of 
Legislative Affairs, Department of Homeland Security; The 
Honorable Stephen E. Boyd, Assistant Attorney General for the 
Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice; The 
Honorable Matthew Bassett, Assistant Secretary for Legislation, 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``The Financial Condition of the 
Postal Service'' (April 30, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, United States Postal 
Service; Ms. Margaret M. Cigno, Director, Office of 
Accountability and Compliance, Postal Regulatory Commission; 
Mr. Joel Quadracci, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive 
Officer, Quad/Graphics; Mr. Fredric V. Rolando, President, 
National Association of Letter Carriers; Mr. Chris Edwards, 
Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
    Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing on 
``Government Shutdowns: Contract Killers'' (May 6, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Roger A. Krone, Chief Executive Officer, Leidos; 
Mr. Jaime Contreras, Vice President, 32BJ SEIU; Ms. Alba M. 
Aleman, Chief Executive Officer, Citizant, Inc.; Mr. Wesley 
Ford, President, TKI Coffee; Mr. Ed Grabowski, President, Local 
2061, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace 
Workers; Mr. David Berteau, President and Chief Executive 
Officer, Professional Services Council; Mr. Michael Niggel, 
Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Concepts & Technologies; Mr. 
Mark Hall, Executive Vice President, ServiceSource; Mr. Anthony 
Crescenzo, Chief Executive Officer, IntelliDyne, LLC; Ms. 
Tamela Worthen, Security Guard, Smithsonian Institution.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's 
Response to the Drug Crisis, Part II'' (May 9, 2019). 
Witnesses: The Honorable James W. Carroll Jr., Director, Office 
of National Drug Control Policy; Ms. Triana McNeil, Acting 
Director Homeland Security and Justice, Government 
Accountability Office; Ms. Karyl Thomas Rattay, M.D., M.S., 
Director, Delaware Division of Public Health; Sheriff Wayne 
Ivey, Brevard County, Florida.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``DOD Inspector General Report on 
Excess Profits by TransDigm Group, Inc.'' (May 15, 2019). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Kevin Fahey, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Department of Defense; The Honorable 
Glenn Fine, Acting Inspector General, Department of Defense; 
Mr. Nicholas Howley, Executive Chairman and Founder, TransDigm; 
Ms. Theresa Hull, Assistant Inspector General for Acquisition, 
Office of Inspector General, Department of Defense; Mr. Kevin 
Stein, Chief Executive Officer, TransDigm.
    Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing on ``The 
Administration's War on a Merit Based Civil Service'' (May 21, 
2019). Witnesses: The Honorable Margaret Weichart, Deputy 
Director of Management, Office of Management and Budget, Acting 
Director, Office of Personnel Management; Ms. Triana McNeil, 
Acting Director of Strategic Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; Mr. Norbert E. Vint, Acting Inspector General, Office 
of Personnel Management Office of Inspector General; Mr. J. 
David Cox, Sr., National President, American Federation of 
Government Employees; Mr. Ken Thomas, National President, 
National Active and Retired Federal Employees; Ms. Linda M. 
Springer, Former Director, Office of Personnel Management.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Facial Recognition Technology 
(Part II): Ensuring Transparency in Government Use'' (June 4, 
2019). Witnesses: Ms. Kimberly J. Del Greco, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Criminal Justice Information Services, Federal Bureau 
of Investigation; Dr. Gretta L. Goodwin, Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office; 
Mr. Austin Gould, Assistant Administrator, Requirements and 
Capabilities Analysis, Transportation Security Administration; 
Dr. Charles H. Romine, Director, Information Technology 
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Identifying, Resolving, and 
Preventing Vulnerabilities in TSA's Security Operations'' (June 
25, 2019). Witnesses: Mr. Donald Bumgardner, Deputy Assistant 
Inspector General, Office of Inspector General; Mr. Charles M. 
Johnson Jr., Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; The Honorable David 
P. Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security 
Administration, Department of Homeland Security.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Violations of the Hatch Act 
Under the Trump Administration'' (June 26, 2019). Witness: The 
Honorable Henry J. Kerner, Special Counsel, Office of Special 
Counsel.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``The Trump Administration's 
Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of 
Mistreatment'' (July 12, 2019). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Veronica Escobar, Member of Congress, TX-16; The Honorable 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Member of Congress, NY-14; The 
Honorable Ayanna Pressley, Member of Congress, MA-07; The 
Honorable Rashida Tlaib, Member of Congress, MI-13; Ms. 
Jennifer L. Costello, Acting Inspector General, Department of 
Homeland Security; Mr. Thomas D. Homan, Former Acting Director, 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Ms. Ann Maxwell, Assistant 
Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Ms. Elora Mukherjee, Director, 
Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School; Ms. Jennifer 
Nagda, Policy Director, Young Center for Immigrant Children's 
Rights.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Violations of the Hatch Act 
Under the Trump Administration, Part II: Kellyanne Conway'' 
(July 15, 2019). Witness: Ms. Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to 
the President, The White House.
    Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Hearing on 
``Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border'' (July 10, 
2019). Witnesses: Ms. Yazmin Juarez, Asylum Seeker and Mother 
of 19-month-old Mariee, who died after detention by Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement; Mr. Michael Breen, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Human Rights First; Ms. Clara Long, Deputy 
Washington Director, Human Rights Watch; Ms. Hope Frye, 
Executive Director, Project Lifeline; Dr. Carlos A. Gutierrez, 
Pediatrician, El Paso's Children's Hospital; Mr. Ronald D. 
Vitiello, Former Chief, Border Patrol, Former Acting Director, 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Full Committee ``Hearing with Acting Secretary of Homeland 
Security Kevin K. McAleenan (July 18, 2019). Witness: The 
Honorable Kevin K. McAleenan.
    Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Hearing on 
``Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the Damage and 
Preparing to Count `We the People' in 2020'' (July 24, 2019). 
Witnesses: Mr. Steven Dillingham, Ph.D., Director, Census 
Bureau; Mr. Robert Goldenkoff, Director of Strategic Issues, 
U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. Nicholas Marinos, 
Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, 
Government Accountability Office.
    Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Hearing on 
``Righting the Ship: The Coast Guard Must Improve its Processes 
for Addressing Harassment, Bullying, and Retaliation'' 
(December 11, 2019). Witnesses: Vice Admiral Michael 
McAllister, Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, United 
States Coast Guard; Lieutenant Commander Kimberly Young-McLear, 
Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff, United States Coast 
Guard; Mr. Jackson Eaton, Deputy Assistant Inspector General, 
United States Department of Homeland Security.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Reaching Hard-to-Count 
Communities in the 2020 Census'' (January 9, 2020). Witnesses: 
Mr. Kevin Allis, Chief Executive Officer, National Congress of 
American Indians; Ms. Vanita Gupta, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human 
Rights; Mr. Darrell Moore, Executive Director, Center for South 
Georgia Regional Impact, Valdosta State University; Mr. Marc 
Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban 
League; Mr. Arturo Vargas, Chief Executive Officer, NALEO 
Educational Fund; Mr. John Yang, President and Executive 
Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
    Subcommittee on National Security Hearing on ``Examining 
the Trump Administration's Afghanistan Strategy'' (January 28, 
2020). Witness: The Honorable John F. Sopko, Special Inspector 
General, Afghanistan Reconstruction.
    Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing on 
``Protecting Those Who Blow the Whistle on Government 
Wrongdoing'' (January 28, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. David K. 
Colapinto, Founder and General Counsel, National Whistleblower 
Center; The Honorable Glenn A. Fine, Principal Deputy Inspector 
General, Department of Defense; Ms. Elizabeth Hempowicz, 
Director of Public Policy, Project on Government Oversight; The 
Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, Department of 
Justice; Mr. Paul Rosenzweig, Resident Senior Fellow, National 
Security and Cybersecurity, R Street Institute.
    Subcommittee on National Security Hearing on ``Karshi-
Khanabad: Hazardous Exposures and Effects on U.S. 
Servicemembers'' (February 27, 2020). Witnesses: Ms. Kim E. 
Brooks, Spouse of Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Brooks, U.S. Army; 
Mr. Scott W. Welsch, K2 Veteran, Retired Chief Warrant Officer 
2, U.S. Army; Mr. Paul B. Widener Jr. K2 Veteran, Retired 
Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force.
    Full Committee Hearing with Census Bureau Director, Dr. 
Steven Dillingham (February 12, 2020). Witnesses: The Honorable 
Dr. Steven Dillingham, Director, United States Census Bureau; 
Mr. Nick Marinos, Director, Information Technology and 
Cybersecurity, Government Accountability Office; Mr. J. 
Christopher Mihm, Managing Director, Strategic Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Albert E. Fontenot, 
Associate Director of the Decennial Census Programs, United 
States Census Bureau.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``The Administration's Religious 
Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights'' (February 27, 2020). 
Witnesses: The Honorable Sean Patrick Maloney, Member of 
Congress, NY-18; The Honorable Mark Takano, Member of Congress, 
CA-41; The Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy, Member of Congress, MA-
04; The Honorable Mike Kelly, Member of Congress, PA-16; Ms. 
Sarah Warbelow, Legal Director, Human Rights Campaign; Reverend 
Stan J. Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, Family Equality 
Council; Mr. Ernesto Olivares, San Antonio, Texas; Mr. Evan 
Minton, Livermore, California; Mr. Hiram Sasser, Executive 
General Counsel, First Liberty Institute.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Coronavirus Preparedness and 
Response'' (March 11-12, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. Anthony Fauci, 
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 
Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Dr. Robert Redfield, 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. 
Robert Kadlec, Assistant Secretary, Preparedness and Response, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Terry M. Rauch, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health 
Readiness Policy and Oversight, Department of Defense; Mr. 
Chris Currie, Director, Emergency Management and National 
Preparedness, Government Accountability Office.
    Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Hearing on 
``Accountability in Crisis: GAO's Recommendations to Improve 
the Federal Coronavirus Response'' (June 26, 2020). Witnesses: 
The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United 
States, Government Accountability Office.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: 
Ensuring Safety and Accountability in the Government's Trillion 
Dollar Investment'' (July 22, 2020). Witnesses: Lieutenant 
General Eric T. Fick, Program Executive Officer, F-35 Joint 
Program Office, U.S. Department of Defense; Ms. Theresa Hull, 
Assistant Inspector General, Department of Defense; The 
Honorable Ellen Lord, Under Secretary for Acquisitions and 
Sustainment, Department of Defense; Ms. Diana Maurer, Director, 
Government Accountability Office, Defense Capabilities and 
Management; Mr. Greg Ulmer, Vice President and General Manager, 
F-35 Lightning II Program, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Counting Every Person: 
Safeguarding the 2020 Census Against the Trump Administration's 
Unconstitutional Attacks'' (July 29, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. 
Vincent Barabba, Former Director, Census Bureau; Dr. Steven 
Dillingham, Director, Census Bureau; Mr. John Eastman, 
Professor, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community 
Service Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Dale 
E. Fowler School of Law, on behalf of Chapman University, 
Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute; Mr. Robert M. Groves, 
Former Director, Census Bureau (2009-2012); Mr. Kenneth 
Prewitt, Former Director, Census Bureau (1998-2001); Mr. John 
H. Thompson, Former Director, Census Bureau (2013-2017).
    Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Hybrid 
Hearing on ``The Urgent Need for a National Plan to Contain the 
Coronavirus'' (July 31, 2020). Witnesses: Dr. Anthony Fauci, 
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 
Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Admiral Brett P. 
Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Dr. Robert R. Redfield, M.D., 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Protecting the Timely Delivery 
of Mail, Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots'' (August 24, 2020). 
Witnesses: Mr. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, United States 
Postal Service; The Honorable Robert Duncan, Chairman, United 
States Postal Service Board of Governors.
    Full Committee Hearing on ``Providing the Census Bureau 
with the Time to Produce a Complete and Accurate Census'' 
(September 10, 2020). Witnesses: Mr. J. Christopher Mihm, 
Managing Director, Strategic Issues Team, Government 
Accountability Office; Mr. John H. Thompson, Former Director, 
Census Bureau (2013-2017); Mr. Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, 
Gila River Indian Community; Ms. Stacey Carless, Executive 
Director, NC Counts Coalition; Mr. Hans A. von Spakovsky, 
Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
    Subcommittee on National Security Hearing on ``Examining 
the Trump Administration's Afghanistan Strategy, Part 2'' 
(September 22, 2020). Witnesses: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, 
Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, 
Department of State; Mr. David F. Helvey, Performing the Duties 
of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security 
Affairs, Department of Defense.

      VIII. HEARINGS HELD PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (p) OF HOUSE RULE XI

    Under House Rule XI clause 2(p):
    Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall 
hold at least one hearing on issues raised by reports issued by 
the Comptroller General of the United States indicating that 
Federal programs or operations that the committee may authorize 
are at high risk for waste, fraud, and mismanagement, known as 
the ``high-risk list'' or the ``high-risk series.''
    During the 116th Congress, the Committee held the following 
hearings pursuant to this requirement:
    Hearing on ``GAO's 2019 High Risk Report'' (March 6, 2019). 
Witness: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General, 
Government Accountability Office.

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