Press Releases

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek calling on him to immediately resign and to come before the Committee for a transcribed interview.  Committee Democrats obtained emails exposing his decision to terminate two contracts… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to National Security Advisor Michael Waltz demanding he and his staff immediately stop their use of unauthorized and insecure messaging and email applications and platforms for government business, turn over documents, and report additional failures… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to non-principal agency officials involved in the unsecured Signal group chat in which senior Trump Administration officials discussed highly sensitive, likely classified plans for a military operation in Yemen using unapproved and unlawful communication… Read more »

Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Taiwan Caucus,  and the former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and Congresswoman Young Kim (R-CA), the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific, introduced the Taiwan International Solidarity Act, bipartisan legislation… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to Amber F. McReynolds, Chair of the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors (the Governors), escalating Congress’s concerns that DOGE is attempting to actively undermine… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), demanding he immediately resume the agency’s core function to make available recommended vaccines following the shocking resignation of the nation’s top… Read more »

Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, issued the following statement on President Trump’s union busting Executive Order:   “This executive order is another example of the Trump-Musk Administration’s war on… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to illegally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fire all USAID employees, and absorb… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Department of Defense Acting Inspector General Steven Stebbins;  Department of State Acting Inspector General Sandra J. Lewis;  Department of the Treasury Deputy Inspector General Loren Sciurba;  Central Intelligence Agency Acting Inspector General… Read more »

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would be eliminating 10,000 employees in the Trump Administration’s latest attack on the civil service. “The HHS Secretary is bragging about decimating… Read more »