Oversight and Investigations

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is a specialized panel within the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, one of Congress's oldest and broadest committees. While the full committee handles legislation across energy policy, healthcare, environmental protection, consumer safety, and telecommunications, this subcommittee focuses specifically on watchdog functions. It is responsible for conducting oversight of federal agencies, departments, and programs that fall under the parent committee's jurisdiction, and for investigating matters related to those areas. This gives the subcommittee a wide-ranging mandate spanning healthcare fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, energy spending and infrastructure, environmental compliance, consumer protection enforcement, and other regulatory matters.

Chaired by Rep. John Joyce of Pennsylvania, with Ranking Member Yvette Clarke of New York, the subcommittee has held recent hearings on critical issues including Medicare and Medicaid fraud prevention, biosecurity risks at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology, patient safety in the organ procurement and transplantation system, and critical mineral supply chains. The subcommittee has also conducted investigations into federal agency responses to various crises and compliance with civil rights laws. By preparing detailed oversight work and investigations, the subcommittee lays groundwork that can inform the full committee's legislative efforts and ensures federal agencies are operating effectively and lawfully within the committee's broad jurisdiction.