Most congressional committees are happy if they tackle a few issues every year.
But in a year dominated by President Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House, one committee has punched through the nonstop news from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with shocking headlines of its own — House Oversight.
From its investigation into the Biden autopen scandal to discrediting efforts by Democrats to tie Trump to the worst of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hit multiple fronts with investigations exposing fraud and partisan coverups.
“The House Oversight Committee continues to live up to its reputation as the committee that never sleeps and is delivering results for the American people,” said Chairman James Comer (R-KY).
A year-end report card provided to Washington Secrets by Comer’s team highlighted nine of the panel’s biggest cases. And that 12-page report didn’t even touch on the work done by the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee’s Department of Government Efficiency following the model created by the swamp-slashing group co-led by Elon Musk after Trump returned to the Oval Office.
There is NO paper trail to prove Joe Biden approved the pardons signed by autopen.
There’s no evidence he even participated in the process to make decisions on these signatures.
His inner circle covered up his decline and put America in grave danger.
NULL and VOID! pic.twitter.com/HoJyAbZE3u
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 4, 2025
While Democratic critics have accused Comer and his team of showboating, he said that his panel’s investigations have revealed significant fraud in government.
His report card also uncovered the sometimes scandalous ways Washington works, such as the cover-up of Biden’s health and mental capacities by his own staff.
In the section on the autopen scandal, for example, the report said, “Staffers close to Biden admitted his decline was real. Shockingly, some did not even know who was authorizing signatures in his name or using the autopen. Others invoked the Fifth [Amendment], refused to testify, and stonewalled the committee at every turn. This isnʼt just a cover-up — itʼs the biggest political scandal in American presidential history.”
During the year, the Oversight Committee also held more than 50 hearings, passed nearly 40 bills, and conducted 35 depositions and transcribed interviews.
“Our work is not done and will continue our robust oversight in the new year to ensure the federal government operates efficiently, effectively, and transparently for the American people,” said Comer.
Just this month, the committee stepped up work on two key investigations, the Epstein affair and possibly fraudulent crime reporting by the Washington, D.C. police. In the Epstein case, Comer has pushed for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify, and his panel’s investigation into Washington was cited in the sudden resignation of the chief of police.
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Other investigations in the report card include targeting the Biden administration’s effort to “debank” high-tech and crypto outfits, political bias by National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, the Biden border crisis, and China’s bid to fund domestic turmoil.
In a statement to Washington Secrets, Comer did a little well-deserved bragging: “We exposed the Biden autopen presidency, the greatest political scandal in U.S. history, and the Trump administration is now delivering accountability. We held NPR and PBS executives accountable for using taxpayer dollars to fund propaganda, and Congress took action to defund them. We acted to keep Americans safe by codifying President Trump’s executive orders to make Washington, D.C., safe again and by holding sanctuary mayors and governors accountable for allowing criminal illegal aliens to roam free in our communities. We also exposed Biden’s Green New Deal scam, in which the Biden administration funneled taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of Democrat-aligned organizations,” he said.