United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform

The Committee on Oversight and Reform is the main investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

The committee has broad jurisdiction and strong legislative authority, which makes it one of the most influential and powerful committees in the House. Its chairman is one of only three in the House that can make subpoenas without a committee vote or talking with the ranking member. However, recently, it has become common to not make a subpoena by themselves..

Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) became the acting chair of the committee after Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) died on October 17, 2019; she was elected chair a month later.

History
The committee was called the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, and it was created in 1927 to combine 11 separate Committees on Expenditures that had overseen the spending of various federal departments.

Subpoena usage
In 1997, the Republican majority on the committee changed its rules to allow the chairman, Dan Burton (R-Indiana), to make subpoenas without asking the committee's ranking Democrat. From 1997 to 2002, Burton used this to make 1,052 subpoenas by himself. Many of those subpoenas were related to alleged misconduct by President Bill Clinton. This cost more than $35 million.

Members, 116th Congress
 Majority Minority Carolyn Maloney, New York, Chair
 Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
 Lacy Clay, Missouri
 Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
 Jim Cooper, Tennessee
 Gerry Connolly, Virginia
 Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois
 Jamie Raskin, Maryland
 Harley Rouda, California
 Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
 John Sarbanes, Maryland
 Peter Welch, Vermont
 Jackie Speier, California
 Robin Kelly, Illinois
 Mark DeSaulnier, California
 Brenda Lawrence, Michigan
 Stacey Plaskett, U.S. Virgin Islands
 Ro Khanna, California
 Jimmy Gomez, California, Vice Chair
 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
 Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts
 Rashida Tlaib, Michigan
 Katie Porter, California (since December 17, 2019)
 Deb Haaland, New Mexico (since December 17, 2019) Jim Jordan, Ohio, Ranking Member
 Paul Gosar, Arizona
 Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
 Thomas Massie, Kentucky
 Mark Meadows, North Carolina, until March 30, 2020
 Jody Hice, Georgia
 Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
 James Comer, Kentucky
 Michael Cloud, Texas
 Bob Gibbs, Ohio
 Clay Higgins, Louisiana
 Ralph Norman, South Carolina
 Chip Roy, Texas
 Carol Miller, West Virginia
 Mark E. Green, Tennessee
 Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
 Greg Steube, Florida
 Fred Keller, Pennsylvania
Sources:  (Chair),  (Ranking Member),  (D),  (R)

 Subcommittees 
The Committee on Oversight and Reform has six subcommittees.Committee on Oversight and Reform: Subcommittees – 116th Congress
 Subcommittee Chair Ranking Member Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Chip Roy (R-TX) Economic and Consumer Policy Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) Michael Cloud (R-TX) Environment Harley Rouda (D-CA) James Comer (R-KY) Government Operations Gerry Connolly (D-VA) Mark Meadows (R-NC) National Security Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) Jody Hice (R-GA) Coronavirus Crisis (Select) Jim Clyburn (D-SC) TBD (R)

Related pages
 List of current United States House of Representatives committees

References

Other websites
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (Archive)
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Legislation activity and reports, Congress.gov.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearings and Meetings Video. Congress.gov.
OMB Watch a government ethics and reform nonprofit agency
Plum Book , United States Government Policy Key Employees and Supporting Positions: About the Committee on Government Reform
 Records of the Government Operations Committee and its Predecessors at the National Archives and Records Administration

Oversight and Government Reform
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