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SHOT/CHASER: Immigration Hypocrisy — 2023 James Comer Meet 2013 James Comer
Head Hypocrite and Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer plans to take the latest step in his partisan stunts by launching an “investigation” into the southern border. Instead of coming to the table with solutions to help fix our immigration system, Comer and his...
STATEMENT: James Comer Doesn’t Care About Immigration Reform – He Just Wants to Play Politics
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: February 6, 2023 Washington D.C. - Tomorrow, Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer plans to take the latest step in his partisan stunts, an “investigation” into the...
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer Announces Investigation into Trump Family Influence Peddling
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: February 2, 2023 Committee Will Examine Millions of Dollars in Business Deals, Profits and Trademarks Benefitting Trump’s Children and Son-in-Law While He Was President ...
STATEMENT: Day One Hearings Show Comer and Jordan Not Ready for Prime Time
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: February 1, 2023 Washington D.C. - The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees held their first hearings under Republican control today, a clown show of buffoonery,...
SHOT/CHASER: Comer’s So-Called COVID Investigations Should Start By Looking in the Mirror
SHOT: Oversight Committee Chair, Rep. James Comer, Plans to Hold First Oversight Hearings on COVID Response. “Rep. James Comer’s scrutiny of the Biden administration commences Wednesday as his Oversight Committee holds its first substantive hearing to begin...
NEW REPORT: Waste & Abuse: How House Republicans Made Millions From Flawed Pandemic Relief Program
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 31, 2023 Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressional Integrity Project released a new report, Waste & Abuse: How House Republicans Made Millions From Flawed Pandemic...
Why Does James Comer Keep Lying to the Press?
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 30, 2023 Washington D.C. - James Comer has started his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee by repeatedly spreading lies. Congressional Integrity Project...
Rep. Eric Swalwell, Congressional Integrity Project Hold Press Briefing on the MAGA Republican House Oversight Committee’s Illegitimate Investigations
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 30, 2023 Watch the full briefing here Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, Congressional Integrity Project Senior Advisor Brad...
NEW REPORT: Meet the House Subcommittee On Destroying the Government
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 25, 2023 Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressional Integrity Project released a new report, Meet the House Subcommittee On Destroying the Government, on MAGA Republicans’...
Congressional Integrity Project Asks James Comer a Simple Question: Will You Investigate Mike Pence?
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 24, 2023 Washington D.C. - Today it was revealed that former Vice President Mike Pence discovered classified documents at his home and turned them over to the FBI. This...
NEW REPORT: Meet the Ultra-MAGA House Committees Led By James Comer and Jim Jordan
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 23, 2023 Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressional Integrity Project released a new report, Meet the Ultra-MAGA House Committees Led By James Comer and Jim Jordan, which...
NEW REPORT: Meet the House Committee on Overreach
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 17, 2023 Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Integrity Project today released a new report, Meet the House Committee on Overreach, which lays out how extreme the new...
Congressional Integrity Project Statement on the New House Committee on Overreach
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 17, 2023 Washington D.C. - Today, Republicans announced that many of the most extreme MAGA Republicans in the House would sit on the Oversight Committee. Congressional...
HEADLINE ROUNDUP: Biden’s Documents Could Not Be More Different Than Trump’s
Comparing President Biden and Donald Trump’s mishandling of documents is like comparing apples to arsenic. Biden’s lawyers immediately turned in the documents discovered to investigators – right when they were found. The president is cooperating fully with the rule of...
STATEMENT: James Comer Torched on CNN – Exposed as an Unserious Person in a Serious Role
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 15, 2023 Hypocrite-In-Chief Comer Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “My Biggest Concern isn’t the Classified Documents, to be Honest with You” Washington D.C. - This...
STATEMENT: Comer’s Proposed Hearings on Biden Docs Are Blatant Hypocrisy
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 12, 2023 Washington D.C. - Today, Rep. James Comer, Chair of the House Committee on Oversight, announced his eagerness to begin investigations into President Biden...
New Poll Results: Investigating the Biden Administration is Not a Top Priority for Americans – Not Even Close
A week into the new, MAGA-controlled Congress, Kevin McCarthy, James Comer, Jim Jordan, and all of Trump’s allies running the House of Representatives are more committed than ever to launching politically-motivated investigations designed to hurt President Biden and...
STATEMENT: James Comer’s Political Stunts Have Begun
Washington D.C. - One of James Comer’s first acts as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee was to pursue his Trump-style political stunts pushed by MAGA Republicans to damage President Biden, sending a letter to the Department of Treasury requesting financial...
The Facts on Trump and Biden’s Classified Documents
Yesterday, it was reported that President Biden’s attorneys turned over a small number of classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration that they discovered locked in his former private office. MAGA Republicans have predictably jumped on attacking President...
Congressional Integrity Project Statement on the Passage of House Republicans’ Extreme Rules Package
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 9, 2023 Washington D.C. - Tonight House Republicans rammed through an extreme rules package that includes a newly formed committee on the so-called “weaponization of...
STATEMENT: Congressional Integrity Project on the Real Speaker of the House: Marjorie Taylor Greene
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 9, 2022 Posters put up by the Congressional Integrity Project to remind Kevin McCarthy who holds the real power in Congress: Marjorie Taylor Greene. Washington, DC –...
SHOT/CHASER: House Republicans Focused on Politically Motivated Investigations Into President Biden Despite Little Public Support
SHOT: Byron Donalds promises investigations and impeachment of President Biden. “Donalds on Fox on if the House will impeach Biden: That's something that will happen. But right now, what we want to do is get to the process of going through the investigative, of going...
Process to Elect a Speaker Solidified the MAGA GOP Agenda: Investigations to Hurt Biden and Protect Trump, Santos and Insurrectionists
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 7, 2023 Washington, DC – Last night, after a grueling week of votes and an embarrassing showing on the House floor, Representative Kevin McCarthy was...
STATEMENT: Not Above the Law Coalition Calls Out GOP Hypocrisy on Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Front of Congressman-Elect Santos’ Office
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 6, 2023 Washington, DC – Today, activists with the Not Above the Law coalition held a demonstration outside of Congressman-elect George Santos’ office to call out...
STATEMENT: Congressional Integrity Project Hosts Projection Display Calling Out the Real Power in the House: Marjorie Taylor Greene
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: January 2, 2022 CIP Reminds Kevin McCarthy Who Holds the Real Power in Congress Washington, DC – On Monday, January 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM ET, Congressional Integrity Project...
STATEMENT: Congressional Integrity Project Applauds Selection of Raskin As Ranking Member for Oversight
Washington D.C. - Today, House Democrats elected Rep. Jamie Raskin to be Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. In response, Congressional Integrity Project’s Executive Director, Kyle Herrig, said the following: “We applaud the selection of Jamie Raskin to...
STATEMENT: Jim Jordan’s Pathetic Rebuttal to the January 6th Report Is a Transparent Attempt at Deflecting Blame
Washington D.C. - While everyone is awaiting the final report from the January 6th Committee, Jim Jordan and some fellow members of Congress released a “report” of their own trying to deflect the blame. In response, Congressional Integrity Project’s Executive...
STATEMENT: Comer Calls For Government Shutdown Over Unfounded Conspiracy Theories
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 20, 2022 Washington D.C. - Yesterday, James Comer called for a government shutdown over baseless conspiracy theories, saying, “If the Senate goes along with this...
STATEMENT: McCarthy, Jordan, Biggs, and Perry Facing Ethics Investigations For Defying Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas
Washington D.C. - Today the January 6th Committee referred House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, incoming Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, Judiciary and Oversight Committees member Andy Biggs, and Congressman Scott Perry to the House Ethics Committee for defying the...
STATEMENT: Why Are Comer and Jordan Silent On Elon Musk’s Censorship of Journalists on Twitter?
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 16, 2022 Washington D.C. - Late last night, Elon Musk and Twitter HQ abruptly and with little explanation permanently banned multiple reporters who frequently cover...
STATEMENT: James Comer & Jim Jordan Release List for COVID Investigations with Glaring Omissions
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 14, 2022 Washington D.C. - Earlier today, incoming House Oversight Chair James Comer and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan wrote a letter outlining “the names of 40...
STATEMENT: James Comer, House Republicans Must Remove Ralph Norman from the House Oversight Committee for His Seditious Conspiracies
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 13, 2022 Washington D.C. - Yesterday, Talking Points Memo released a tranche of texts which showed South Carolina U.S. Representative and Oversight Committee member...
STATEMENT: Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Dangerous and Violent Threat to Our Country Who Has the Full Support of Kevin McCarthy and James Comer
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 12, 2022 Washington, D.C. - This weekend, at a Young Republicans event in New York City, Marjorie Taylor Greene commented that January 6th would have played out very...
STATEMENT: Kevin McCarthy’s Priority List Is Nothing More than Political Games
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 7, 2022 Washington D.C. - Yesterday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy released a list of the House GOP’s priorities for the next Congress. In response, Congressional...
STATEMENT: Why Doesn’t James Comer Care About Trump’s Foreign Debt?
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 5, 2022 Washington D.C. - This weekend, a report by Forbes revealed that Donald Trump failed to disclose his company owed over $19 million to a South Korean conglomerate...
Meet James Comer: Stopping at Nothing for Political Power
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 2, 2022 Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressional Integrity Project launched into day 2 of Meet James Comer month, releasing a video highlighting Comer’s thirst for power, his...
STATEMENT: Jim Jordan’s Latest Move is Nothing More than a MAGA-Fueled Partisan Stunt
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: December 1, 2022 Washington D.C. - This morning, Congressman Jim Jordan renewed his requests for information and interviews with four former and current government officials...
STATEMENT: Kevin McCarthy’s Border Announcement Is Nothing But Hypocritical, Political Theatrics
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: November 22, 2022 Washington D.C. - Today, Kevin McCarthy held a political stunt in El Paso, where he suggested he was going to investigate and possibly impeach Homeland Secretary...
MSNBC: Democratic watchdog is off the chain with new attacks on MAGA GOPers
Last week, The ReidOut blog covered the relaunch of the Democrat-led watchdog Congressional Integrity Project. In essence, the organization plans to function as a rapid response team that will help Democrats push back against any conspiratorial claims that emerge from...
MSNBC: How Dems plan to fight the GOP’s conspiratorial Biden probes
Republicans will hold a narrow majority in the House next Congress, and as a result may have the power to wage a conspiracy theory-driven investigatory war on the Biden administration.
STATEMENT: House Republicans Announce Politically-Motivated Investigations Meant to Hurt Biden and Help Trump
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org For Immediate Release Date: November 17, 2022 Washington D.C. - Today, the Congressional Integrity Project issued the following statement in response to a press conference held by House Committee on Oversight...
BREAKING NEWS: Congressional Integrity Project Launches Fight Against Congressional Republicans’ Politically-Motivated Investigations Meant to Hurt Biden and Help Trump
PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.orgFor Immediate ReleaseDate: November 16, 2022 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Congressional Integrity Project (CIP) announced it will launch a multi-million dollar effort to expose the reality behind the...
POLITICO: Investigating the investigators: Dem strategists to launch counterpunch to House GOP
A group of top Democratic strategists are launching a multi-million-dollar hub to counter an expected investigative onslaught by the likely incoming House GOP majority — digging into President Joe Biden, his administration and his son, on top of potential Cabinet...
Watchdog to Cruz and Hawley Staff: It’s Never too Late to do the Right Thing
Congressional Integrity Project calls on aides to rebuke anti-Democratic actions Washington, D.C. – In the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol fomented by Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and other Trump supporters, there are reports that their staff, “have...
New Report: Sen. Hawley Goes Full “Coastal Elite”; Abandons America’s Heartland
After only four short years in Washington, Josh Hawley has drifted away from Missouri — raising questions on where he actually lives Washington, D.C. – Today, the Kansas City Star published a new report exposing Josh Hawley’s hypocrisy and evasion of Missouri election...
A Final Message from Executive Director Kyle Herrig: Republicans’ Focus on Hunter Biden Belies Their Own Self-Dealing
For more than a year, Ron Johnson (R-WI) told anyone who would listen that he had discovered election-shattering wrongdoing by Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. But in September, his committee released a report that, as the Washington Post summarized,...
Watchdog Group Exposes U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s Use of Campaign Money to Enrich Her Family
Research Details Blackburn’s Corrupt Record of Self-Dealing While Running for Public Office Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Integrity Project released new research exposing U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s long history of self-dealing to enrich her family. The...
Watchdog Group Releases New Report Detailing Corruption, Nepotism & Self-Dealing Among Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Report Details How Ron Johnson and GOP Committee Members Have Enriched Themselves and Their Families While in Office Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Integrity Project released an extensive new report today detailing corruption, self-dealing, and nepotism...
Watchdog Calls Out Ernst’s History of Self-Dealing and Government Corruption
Despite Election-Year Rhetoric, Joni Ernst’s Family Was Enriched While She Served in Office Washington, D.C. – Before Joni Ernst went to Washington, her public position and family finances were intertwined as her father’s construction company won hundreds of...
New Report on Ron Johnson (and His Family’s) Corruption
The Guardian just published the following report on how Ron Johnson – and his family – have used his power and influence to personally profit. Click HERE for the Congressional Integrity Project’s report, “ALL IN THE FAMILY: THE JOHNSONS, CORRUPTION & NEPOTISM.”In...
Memo: It’s Time to Investigate Ron Johnson and His Adult Children’s Finances
From: The Congressional Integrity ProjectTo: Interested PartiesDate: October 16, 2020Re: It’s Time to Investigate Ron Johnson and His Adult Children’s...
Ron Johnson Peddles Misinformation; Refuses to Address Domestic Terrorism
Washington, D.C. – This morning, The New York Post published dirt allegedly obtained by President Trump’s lawyer as part of an effort to smear Joe Biden’s children. Hours later, Ron Johnson announced that his committee will look into the Trump Campaign’s charges. In...
Рон Джонсон распространяет дезинформацию; Отказывается бороться с внутренним терроризмом
We used Google to translate our earlier statement on Ron Johnson peddling misinformation into Russian and Ukrainian to make it easier for the Senator and his associates to read. Рон Джонсон распространяет дезинформацию; Отказывается бороться с внутренним терроризмом ...
Watchdog Calls for Ethics Probe of Ron Johnson’s Children for Preferential Treatment
Today, the Wisconsin Examiner reported that the Campaign for Accountability, a government watchdog group, filed an ethics complaint with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to investigate whether Ron Johnson’s children benefited from preferential treatment when they...
Five Days After A Plot To Kidnap Governor, Homeland Security Chair Johnson Remains Silent
While Johnson Is Distracted With Political Investigations And Conspiracy Theories, Domestic Terrorists Threaten to Kidnap The Michigan Governor WASHINGTON DC – Twenty four hours ago Five days ago, federal officials announced that they had broken up a plot by...