Talk:United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

Untitled
This isn't a copyright violation because it comes from the US Federal government and is therefore in the public domain. However, it really should be rewritten. MicahMN | Talk 06:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of Committee Members
I just added the list of all committee members to the post... I know that almsot none of the Democrats are linked yet... I havent gotten a chance to do that yet, if someone could help me out that would be great, otherwise, hopefully I will have most of them linked by the end of tonight, so please dont mark it for POV. And I am not the origional writer of the article. DTfromDC 22:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I did a cleanup of the Committee member list and removed the cleanup tag --Jayzel 19:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

POV
Almost all of the description of the committee in "recent events" are complaints. They didn't do this or that, and what they did was irrelevant. This is quite unbalanced and unfair. -- Sholom 17:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I've cited a report from this committee, and it was removed because it was authored by Republicans. That is irrelevant. It was released under the authority of the committee and bears the committee seal, and is thus completely relevant and pertinent material for the 'recent events' area.


 * I didn't remove the report because the GOP authored it. I removed the sentence because it implied that the report was written by the entire committee and presented the conclusions as fact, when they are only the views of the report. I would have done the same had this been a Democratic written report. Generally, we do not allow sources with biases points of view as reliable sources. See WP:BIAS. A staff report by only the majority or minority is inherently biased, because it is often with partisan intent, rather than objective review. Nevertheless, I have kept your restoration of the addition now, but have rewritten it to make it clear that it was written by the minority staff, and state the the statements are attributed to the report itself, not the committee as a whole.DCmacnut &lt; &gt; 23:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Recent Events section
This section of the article is a train wreck. Between the original research and uncited stuff (lots of uncited statements, many of which are opinions or improper synthesis), and the POV (the third paragraph should be nuked from high orbit, and the fifth is pretty unbalanced as well), there is a lot of work to be done to fix this section. I am not doing a drive-by tagging; I will be back to see if anything is done to fix the section, but if nothing is done in a week or so, I'll take a sledgehammer to it and make sure that it's balanced, factual, and properly cited. The references also need to be properly formatted, and broken links need to be fixed.  Horologium  (talk) 19:48, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090711082645/http://republicans.oversight.house.gov:80/media/pdfs/20090707HousingCrisisReport.pdf to http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090707HousingCrisisReport.pdf

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Lawrence
Brenda Lawrence is from Michigan not Illinois. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 04:24, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

what's a century

 * The Committee on Oversight and Reform is a United States House of Representatives committee that has existed in varying forms since 1816.


 * It first appeared as the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, which was created in 1927 by consolidating the 11 Committees on Expenditures previously spread among the various departments of the federal government to oversee how taxpayer monies were spent.

Pick one, or explain the contrast. —Tamfang (talk) 06:07, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

117th Congress
In the 117th on the Dem side, Cori Bush (D-MO) has joined the committee. Several other "additions" are listed in that tweet, who I think were already members, shrug. I don't know if any Dems left the committee at the end of the 116th, or any Republicans have arrived or departed. The Committee web page doesn't list the current membership, at least in my browser (it might be a script issue). I guess I won't try to add partial updates to the article. Rather, it's fine to wait until a full list is available in one place, assuming that will happen in the next few days or so. 2601:648:8202:96B0:0:0:0:313A (talk) 07:06, 11 January 2021 (UTC)