#Congressional-Oversight
Events indexed under #Congressional-Oversight — 104 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | WYPR Exposes WEXMAC Contracting Method Used for $102.4M Williamsport MD Warehouse Purchase With $113M Retrofit and Up to $650M in Potential Add-On Work Todd Lyons · Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Anthony Brown · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-13 | Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-29 | Warren, Raskin Lead 52 Lawmakers in Formal Inquiry to Six Detention Contractors and Real Estate Firms Over Trump Warehouse Detention Buildout Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Raskin · Andrey Sharkov · PNK Group · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-23 | Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-22 | Warren and Shaheen Demand Hegseth End DoD WEXMAC-TITUS Agreement With DHS, Citing $65 Billion Ceiling Growth and Diversion of Navy Resources to Domestic ICE Detention Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Navy · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Booker War Powers Resolution Fails 47-53 — Only Paul Crosses Party Lines for Yes, Fetterman for No Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | CNN Reports 2.5 Million Epstein Documents Remain Unreleased Despite Transparency Act Rep. Thomas Massie · Rep. Ro Khanna · Judge Paul Engelmayer | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | Democrats Walk Out of Bondi-Blanche Epstein Briefing After Comer Vulgar Remark Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Rep. James Comer · Rep. Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | DNI Gabbard Admits Iran Was 'Not Rebuilding Enrichment' Before War — Omits Finding from Oral Testimony Tulsi Gabbard · John Ratcliffe · Kash Patel · Sen. Mark Warner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | House Oversight Chairman Comer Subpoenas AG Bondi for Sworn Deposition on Epstein Files Rep. James Comer · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight Sen. Adam Schiff · Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Tim Kaine · Sen. Chris Murphy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | Republican Leadership Actively Avoids Public Hearings on Iran War Sen. John Thune · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-15 | House Democrats Launch Investigation Into DOJ Retaliatory Prosecution of NY AG Letitia James Rep. Jamie Raskin · Rep. Ted Lieu · Rep. Jerrold Nadler · Rep. Dan Goldman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | 120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+ Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | House Oversight Requests Epstein Prison Guard Tova Noel for Transcribed Interview Rep. James Comer · Tova Noel · Michael Thomas | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | 29 Congress Members Demand DOD Inspector General Investigate Commanders Framing Iran War as Biblical Armageddon Rep. Jared Huffman · Rep. Jamie Raskin · Rep. Chrissy Houlahan · Military Religious Freedom Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Noem Faces Bipartisan Senate Rebuke as Tillis Calls Her Leadership "A Disaster" Kristi Noem · Thom Tillis · John Kennedy · Dick Durbin · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-26 | Hillary Clinton Gives Epstein Deposition as Boebert Leaks Classified Photo, Democrats Warn Trump Will Be Next Hillary Clinton · James Comer · Robert Garcia · Lauren Boebert · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-25 | Bipartisan House Oversight Investigation Launched into DOJ Withholding of Trump-Related Epstein Files James Comer · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | NPR Investigation Reveals DOJ Secretly Withheld Epstein Files Containing Abuse Accusations Against Trump Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Robert Garcia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Bondi Claims All Epstein Files Released, Sends Six-Page Justification Letter to Congress Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | DHS Shutdown Begins as Congress Fails to Reach Immigration Reform Deal United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · John Thune · Chris Murphy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | House Democrats Launch Investigation into DOJ Congressional Surveillance Jamie Raskin · Pramila Jayapal · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | Senate Fails to Advance DHS Funding Bill in 52-47 Vote United States Senate · John Thune · Chuck Schumer · John Fetterman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | Bondi House Testimony Devolves Into Personal Attacks Over Epstein Files and Political Prosecutions Pam Bondi · Jamie Raskin · Thomas Massie · Pramila Jayapal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-09 | DOJ Opens Epstein Files Reading Room to Congress Under Restrictive Conditions Department of Justice · Patrick Davis · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-03 | Clintons Agree to Epstein Investigation Depositions Under Contempt Threat House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · James Comer · Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-03 | House Votes 217-214 to End Four-Day Partial Government Shutdown U.S. House of Representatives · Mike Johnson · Nancy Mace · Hakeem Jeffries | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Comer Announces Walz and Ellison Will Testify on Minnesota Fraud March 4 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · James Comer · Tim Walz · Keith Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Releases 3.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files, Claims Full Compliance Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Ro Khanna · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Senate Passes Spending Package with Two-Week DHS Continuing Resolution United States Senate · Chuck Schumer · John Thune · Mike Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate Intelligence Committee Holds Confirmation Hearing for NSA Nominee Rudd Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Joshua Rudd · Ron Wyden · Roger Wicker | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-22 | House Passes Final FY2026 Appropriations Bills in Split Vote U.S. House of Representatives · Mike Johnson · House Committee on Appropriations | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Federal Judge Rejects Special Master Request for Epstein Files Paul Engelmayer · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate Armed Services Committee Holds NSA Nominee Confirmation Hearing Senate Committee on Armed Services · Joshua Rudd · Roger Wicker · Angus King | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | House Oversight Committee Holds Minnesota Social Services Fraud Hearing House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · James Comer · Kristin Robbins · Walter Hudson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DOJ Admits Less Than 1% of Epstein Files Released, 48 Days After Law's Deadline Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | Massie and Khanna Ask Federal Judge to Appoint Special Master Over Epstein File Release Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Paul Engelmayer · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | DOJ Misses 15-Day Deadline to Explain Redactions, Provide List of Named Officials Chuck Schumer · Thomas Massie · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | 12 Bipartisan Senators Demand Inspector General Audit of DOJ Epstein Files Compliance Richard Blumenthal · Lisa Murkowski · Jeff Merkley · Chuck Schumer · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Bipartisan Lawmakers Accuse DOJ of Violating Epstein Files Transparency Act Ro Khanna · Thomas Massie · Chuck Schumer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-17 | Senate Passes $901 Billion Defense Bill with Unprecedented Oversight Provisions Targeting Hegseth Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Tim Kaine · Frank Bradley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference Jamie Raskin · Roger P. Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · +15 | reported | |
| 2025-12-11 | DHS Secretary Noem Confronted Over Veteran Deportations in Contentious Congressional Hearing Kristi Noem · Seth Magaziner · Sae Joon Park · Jim Brown · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Admiral Reveals Boat Strike Survivors Were Waving Before Execution; Hegseth Refuses to Release Video Evidence Admiral Frank Bradley · Pete Hegseth · Senator Jack Reed · Representative Jim Himes · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-12-03 | Pentagon IG Finds Hegseth Shared SECRET//NOFORN Classified Information on Signal, Violated National Security Protocols Pete Hegseth · Jeffrey Goldberg · Mike Waltz · JD Vance · +5 | disputed | |
| 2025-11-28 | Washington Post reveals Hegseth gave "kill everybody" order in Caribbean boat strikes, killing shipwrecked survivors Pete Hegseth · Admiral Frank Bradley · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Pentagon Chief Hegseth Blocks Military Officials From Contacting Congress Without Approval Pete Hegseth · Steve Feinberg · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Attorney General Bondi Testifies Before Senate Amid Accusations of DOJ Weaponization Pam Bondi · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · Dick Durbin · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission' U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | CREW Exposes OMB Hiding Spending Controls Through Secret 'Footnote' Agreements Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | House Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Birthday Book with Trump Contributions Including "Fully Depreciated Woman" Check Photo Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Joel Pashcow · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Chairman Comer Issues 11 Subpoenas Including Clintons and Former AGs James Comer · Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | Twelve House Democrats sue Trump administration for blocking detention facility oversight Rep. Joe Neguse (CO) · Rep. Jason Crow · Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY) · Rep. Dan Goldman (NY) · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | ICE blocks members of Congress from detention facilities, violating oversight law Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rep. Jason Crow · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Oversight Subcommittee Votes 8-2 to Subpoena DOJ for Epstein Files U.S. House Oversight Committee · Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) · Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) · Rep. Brian Jack (R-GA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools Ron Wyden · Daniel Goldman · Nydia Velázquez · Alex Karp · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-16 | Senate Permanent Subcommittee opens inquiry into Trump crypto corruption Richard Blumenthal · Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump · Fight Fight Fight LLC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics Senate Judiciary Committee · Chief Justice John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation SpaceX · U.S. Space Force · Elon Musk · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-09 | Senate Judiciary Subpoenas Harlan Crow Over Thomas Gifts After Resistance Senate Judiciary Committee · Dick Durbin · Harlan Crow · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-10 | Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen · Paul Hudson · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-30 | House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns House Ways and Means Committee · Richard Neal · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-12 | House Investigation Reveals Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump DPA Order While 59,000 Workers Infected James Clyburn · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-24 | DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · Harley Rouda · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | DeJoy Senate Testimony Denies Sabotage as Gary Peters Details Severe Mail Delays Louis DeJoy · Gary Peters · Ron Johnson · USPS | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-16 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Articles to Senate After 28-Day Strategic Delay Nancy Pelosi · Mitch McConnell · Adam Schiff · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-07 | Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-24 | Speaker Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry After Ukraine Revelations Nancy Pelosi · Donald Trump · Adam Schiff · House Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-12 | Intelligence Community Whistleblower Files Urgent Complaint About Trump-Zelensky Call IC Whistleblower · Michael Atkinson · Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-24 | Trump Declares Fake Emergency to Ram Through $8.1 Billion Raytheon Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-07 | Don McGahn Defies Congressional Subpoena for Mueller-Related Documents Donald McGahn · White House · House Judiciary Committee · William Burck · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-15 | House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers Retires, Enters CNN Commentary and Undisclosed Consulting Mike Rogers · CNN · AT&T · IronNet Cybersecurity · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2007-10-02 | Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure Dubai Ports World · House Appropriations Committee · Charles Schumer · Dennis Hastert · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1987-05-05 | Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · Caspar Weinberger | confirmed | |
| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra Ronald Reagan · John Tower · Edmund Muskie · Brent Scowcroft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras Edward Boland · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-27 | House Judiciary Committee Approves Three Articles of Impeachment Against President Nixon House Judiciary Committee · Peter Rodino · Robert McClory · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski · Robert Bork · Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Donald Sanders · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency" John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence U.S. Congress · General Omar Bradley · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 1943-07-01 | Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military Curtiss-Wright Corporation · Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman · Army Air Force | confirmed | |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-16 | Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | confirmed | |
| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace Charles E. Mitchell · National City Bank · National City Company · Ferdinand Pecora · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-01-15 | Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation Ferdinand Pecora · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed |