Culture of Corruption
March 26th, 2015
Yesterday, I announced I am subpoenaing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, I have led recent efforts to increase transparency and accountability at...
March 9th, 2015
In the tradition of, “It depends what the meaning of ‘is’ is,” Hillary Clinton remains under fire for her private email, and rightfully so. But the spin has been incredible.
January 29th, 2015
San Diego voters have a right to know who is trying to influence our local elections. Yet a proposal going before the County Board of Supervisors will mean more dark money and less transparency in our local politics.
January 2nd, 2015
There is no doubt that government has become more corrupt under Obama. Far more corrupt.Scandal after scandal, followed by cover-up after cover-up. There is little doubt to me that Obama’s administration spends more time...
June 23rd, 2014
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed that it “lost” two years’ worth of emails directly related to the agency’s targeting of law-abiding taxpayers. This is unbelievable. Old emails don’t disappear on their...
June 9th, 2014
The Department of Veterans Affairs today released the results of a nationwide audit that examined problems surrounding access to care for millions of America’s veterans. According to the report, schedulers at 76% of VA...
March 6th, 2014
DEL RIO, TEXAS – A business owner from the Texas/Mexico border town of Eagle Pass was sentenced this week to nearly four years in federal prison for his role in an bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme in Maverick County...
December 18th, 2013
The global climate change extortionists can’t be happy about the EPA’s leading expert on climate change going to prison.But that’s just where John C. Beale is going, as he pled guilty to shamelessly accepting almost $1...
December 11th, 2013
As you may remember, undercover videos were released in November that showed ObamaCare navigators from two different locations in North Texas encouraging applicants to lie on their health insurance applications in order to...
November 25th, 2013
Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and I appeared on Fox with Sean Hannity to talk about a whistleblowers disturbing allegations that Census employees fabricated data used for determining the unemployment rate...right...
March 10th, 2015
Documents provided by EPA demonstrate a continued lack of transparency at the agency. EPA responded two weeks after the Committee’s due date with information that appears to be already publicly available.
February 10th, 2015
I recently received a letter from the Inspector General of the House of Representatives detailing IRS phone scams being reported across the country.Please know that the IRS will NOT:
June 24th, 2014
It’s been over a year since we found out about IRS discrimination against groups that don’t share their political views, and I’m still outraged at the Administration’s abuse of power. We’ve been doing everything we can in...
June 20th, 2014
Crisis: IRS emails have vaporized.Where, oh where have the emails gone? Where, oh, where can they be? In another Friday evening news dump, the administration announced that 2 years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished. Poof...
June 4th, 2014
Meet Sidney Powell, a highly sought after appellate attorney whose career includes 10 years serving as an Assistant United States Attorney performing civil and criminal trial work, and heading up an appellate section for the...
December 23rd, 2013
This week, my fellow government "watchdogs" and I took our oversight efforts over the Obamacare #fail and its botched website out of the Committee hearing room and into ground zero for navigator issues: North Texas.I headed...
December 12th, 2013
The former governor of Tamaulipas, the Mexican state bordering a large part of South Texas, has been indicted in the U.S. on numerous charges related to allegedly helping the Mexican Gulf cartel smuggle narcotics into the U....
December 10th, 2013
Corrupt Jefferson County Judge Layne Walker has announced that he will not seek re-election. It is believed that Judge Walker was allowed to step down or face removal by the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct.This is...
November 20th, 2013
A high-ranking official in the socialist state-owned and operated Venezuelan State Economic Development Bank has pleaded guilty in New York City for accepting bribes from members of a U.S.-based broker-dealer firm in...