Letter: Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa Staff for Help Spinning IRS Scandal

Jonathan Strong Breitbart.com Big Government 9 Sep 2014

A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa’s staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder.

The aide, Brian Fallon, is a […]

Watchdog wants probe of Google’s ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama

Sara Jerome The Hill 11/9/2010

As House Republicans plan an ambitious oversight agenda for the next session of Congress, a watchdog group is calling for a probe into a company that it says is far too cozy with the Obama administration: Google.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a group that advocates for a […]

In October Dems locked Republicans out of committee room

by Susan Crabtree The Hill 10/20/2009

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an […]

Reps. Issa and Towns Reach Agreement on Countrywide Subpoena

Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Friday, 23 October 2009

WASHINGTON. D.C. – In December of 2008, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched an investigation into Countrywide Financial Corporation’s infamous VIP and Friends of Angelo Program that exposed the inner workings of Countrywide’s efforts to buy friends in […]

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