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Washington, D.C. (December 14, 2022) – Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, published a letter to the editor in the Washington Post, in response to the paper’s December 12 editorial on Republican oversight priorities of the 118th Congress.

Washington, D.C. (December 9, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, released its final report and announced plans to hold a final hearing on December 14, 2022, beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET, to be immediately followed by a business meeting at approximately 3:30 p.m. where the report will be formally adopted. Issuance of the final report will be the committee’s final official act, pursuant to its 2020 authorizing resolution, H. Res. 935, extended in relevant part by H. Res. 8 in 2021. 

Washington, D.C. (December 1, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, released a staff report detailing the poor performance of many financial technology companies (fintechs) in administering the nation’s largest pandemic relief program, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The report details how the investigated companies, despite being tasked with processing PPP applications while screening out those with signs of fraud, abdicated that responsibility—in many cases recklessly—resulting in the approval of large numbers of fraudulent applications.

Washington, D.C. (November 14, 2022) – Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, released the below statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released new guidance following a Select Subcommittee investigation finding that the three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies—Equifax, Experian and TransUnion—have not adequately addressing consumer disputes regarding errors in credit reports, in possible violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.