Letter to the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights (CHIRLA) requesting information about its federal grants from January 20, 2021 onward, including documents and communications regarding the grants as well as how the funds were spent. The letter also requests information about all donations, grants, or other financial contributions CHIRLA received from or gave to any other nonprofit organization from January 20, 2021 onward, as well as any information about the immigration-related protests from earlier in 2025.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | immigration | federal funding

Letter to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of the Committee’s investigation into SEIU’s hiring of registered sex offenders. The letter cites SEIU’s alleged hiring of a registered sex offender to serve as its business agent and questions the decision given SEIU’s engagement with vulnerable populations. The letter requests SEIU to share information about employees who are registered sex offenders and policies and procedures related to job applicants and employees who may be registered sex offenders. The letter notes that the Committee is weighing whether reforms to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act are necessary.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | union | labor

Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting a briefing on the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate whether “certain far-left entities, organized and funded by Neville Roy Singham, may have engaged in activities at the behest of Beijing, requiring registration and disclosures under FARA.” It also alleges that some of the organizations funded by Singham are “radical, antisemitic entities.” The letter specifically requests that the DOJ address investigative efforts related to the following organizations:  the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Code Pink, No Cold War, Tricontinental, United Community Fund, Justice Education Fund, People’s Support Foundation, New Fame, Dongsheng News, Shut It Down for Palestine, ANSWER Coalition, International People’s Assembly, Al-Awda NY, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, Palestinian American Community Center NJ, Samidoun, and BreakThrough Media.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | funder, immigration, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | foreign influence, supporting illegal activity

Letter to Neville Singham requesting the provision of documents and information related to Singham’s “funding and control” over organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The letter voices concern over Singham’s support of organizations that engaged in the protests in Los Angeles as well as the possibility that Singham may be engaging in activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and other federal laws.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | funder | supporting illegal activity, foreign influence

Letter to Planned Parenthood alleging that it may be “commingling federal funds and using them for unpermitted purposes,” citing the organization’s alleged provision of abortion services and gender-affirming care to minors “with little medical supervision and questionable adherence to parental consent laws.” The letter requests a range of documentation related to these activities, Planned Parenthood’s non-public financial statements and annual reports, internal policies, and also requests a staff-level briefing on the matter no later than June 20, 2025 with briefers prepared to answer several questions.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | sexual health | federal funding

Letters to over 200 NGOs that allegedly “were involved in providing services or support to inadmissible aliens during the Biden-Harris administration’s historic border crisis.” The letters request each NGO to complete a survey that includes questions about government grants, contracts, and disbursements received, lawsuits against the federal government as well as amicus briefs filed in lawsuits against the federal government, and other forms of assistance provided to “illegal immigrants or unaccompanied alien children” in recent years, among other questions.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | immigration | immigration

Senator Josh Hawley sent letters to three organizations alleging their role in “financing and materially supporting the coordinated protests and riots” in Los Angeles. The letters request information related to planning, coordinating, or funding the protests and immigration enforcement, including relevant communications, financial documents, grant applications or funding proposals, and other information. The organizations that received the letters are the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Union del Barrio.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | immigration, funder, | supporting illegal activity

Follow-up letter to Sarah Lawrence College requesting more details about the safety of Jewish students on campus. The letter highlights Sarah Lawrence’s obligation to respond to alleged incidents of antisemitism under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which “requires colleges accepting federal funds to promptly address and eliminate a hostile environment.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

Letter requesting information about whether Harvard University engages in discriminatory hiring and employment practices in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The letter cites several of Harvard’s diversity-related initiatives as evidence that Harvard may have or may still be discriminating with respect to its hiring and employment practices.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

Report on the now-terminated grants to the Vera Institute of Justice and Impact Justice from the Justice Department. The letter explains that the two NGOs had received the funds to “help combat sexual abuse in prisons and ensure the integrity of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) audit process.” The report alleges that the two NGOs’ activities “prioritize[ed] violent criminals over victims and decline[ed] to fully prosecute felony charges.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | criminal justice | none

Letter seeking formal briefing with EPA staff to understand funding decisions behind the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). The letter raises concerns about the choice of grantees for the GGRF, alleging “conflicts of interest and political favoritism.” It also questions the “complex funding structure” of the GGRF.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | environmental | abuse of power, fraud

Letter demanding Bowdoin College to provide disciplinary records for students and faculty who participated in “antisemitic incidents on campus.” The letter follows up on a previous request from March and acknowledges that although Bowdoin produced documents related to the disciplinary action, it has allegedly failed to produce “all” the relevant documents. The letter notes that if Bowdoin fails to fully comply with the Committee’s requests, the Committee will “proceed with issuing compulsory process.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

Letter to Harvard University expressing concern about certain activities that may “create risks to U.S. national security and further the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide in Xinjiang.” The questioned activities include Harvard’s provision of health-related training services to and collaboration on research with several Chinese entities. The letter asserts that these activities may “undermine Harvard’s nonprofit mission,” and requests a wide range of documents, including those related to Harvard’s engagement or collaboration with foreign individuals and entities on several national security lists and explanations of its collaboration with the various cited entities.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | national security

Letters to the State University of New York (SUNY) and the University of California (UC) requesting the institutions to assess their management of the risk of efforts by the People’s Republic of China to acquire sensitive technology through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | national security

Letter calling on Duke University to end its Duke Kunshan University campus in China. The letter alleges that Duke’s partnership with Chinese entities has enabled the Chinese Communist Party to access sensitive U.S. technology, and has also made American students vulnerable to exploitation by CCP propaganda.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | national security

Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., requesting information about the HHS’s responses to complaints about Polaris Project’s management of the National Human Trafficking Hotline under a federal grant. The letter cites letters from 2023 and 2025 from a bipartisan group of attorneys general raising concerns about Polaris’ alleged failures to report certain trafficking tips to state law enforcement. It also asks about apparent conflicts of interest between Polaris and its co-founder, Katherine Chon, who is a senior adviser at HHS and HHS’ director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | anti-trafficking | none

This letter requests Northwestern to submit a transcribed interview about steps being taken to combat “antisemitic threats and harassment occurring on its campus.” The letter alleges that Northwestern has not taken the steps to address antisemitism that its president cited during a testimony on antisemitism on college campuses in May 2024.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

Ahead of the House Committee on Education and Workforce’s May 7th hearing on antisemitism at universities, these letters lay out allegations of antisemitic incidences on each letter recipient’s campus, and requests information about the recipients’ responses to these incidents. The letter recipients were California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo), DePaul University, and Haverford College, whose respective presidents will be testifying at the hearing.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

As part of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s investigation into Harvard’s “lack of compliance with civil rights laws despite receiving [federal funds],” the letter requests all documents and communications on several issues, including its administrative structures, hiring and admissions policies, viewpoint diversity, DEI practices, and among others.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination, foreign influence

The letter requests a staff-level briefing on security risks and mitigation for partnerships under the Biden Administration’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI). The briefing is part of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s investigation of the Biden Administration’s “use of REPI to facilitate the sale of land easements…to nonprofits with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” The letter cites as an example the Nature Conservancy, which was involved in 34 such agreements under REPI.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | environmental | abuse of power, foreign influence

Letter from Senator Charles Grassley to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting information to assist Congress to review enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) against The People’s Forum and Code Pink. The letter emphasizes that both organizations received significant funding from Neville Roy Singham, whom the letter alleges “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.” It also highlights examples of both organizations’ activities that could be construed as sympathetic to China. The letter concludes that both organizations have been funded and influenced by foreign principals (Mr. Singham and the “communist Chinese government,” and have engaged in “covered political activities that directly advance the communist Chinese government’s political and policy interests.” The letter requests information from the DOJ about actions it has taken to assess and enforce The People’s Forum and Code Pink’s obligations under FARA.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | US-China relations | foreign influence

Letters to eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) grant recipients as part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into the GGRF. The letters cite concerns including the GGRF’s “unusual structure,” “large funding amounts,” “speed of the awards process,” and “reports of potential conflicts of interest.” The letters request information about how the organizations became GGRF grant recipients and details about their awards, their organizational structure, their relationship with the EPA, and other topics. The letter recipients include Coalition for Green Capital, Climate United Fund, Power Forward Communities, Justice Climate Fund, Opportunity Finance Network, Inclusiv, Native CDFI Network, and Appalachian Community Capital.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | environmental | abuse of power, fraud

Letters to Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University seeking documents and communications on these schools’ “apparent collusion to raise tuition prices.” The letter suggests that the schools’ actions may violate the Sherman Act.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-trust

Letter requesting information about Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)’s use of grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE). The letter alleges that FPF is “attempting to hide its work in support of former President Biden’s AI Executive Order,” which laid out principles for the development and use of AI, including “advancing equity and civil rights.” The letter states that FPF “promoted efforts to incorporate DEI principles into AI-enabled technologies” and “supported gender-affirming care.” It also expresses interest in FPF’s work on model AI legislation for states. The letter requests information including all affiliated persons who worked on lobbying under specific NSF and DOE awards and information relating to various meetings and communications under the awards.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | responsible AI | free speech

Report alleging that ActBlue’s election contribution platform has extensive fraud, including allegedly fraudulent contributions from foreign sources. The Committee also sent a letter requesting additional information from ActBlue about its compliance with applicable federal laws and certain whistleblowers and staff resignations. The letter also requests testimony from two named employees.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | elections, political action committee | foreign influence, fraud

As part of the Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), the Committee sent letters to eight grantees of the fund. These include Power Forward Communities, Native CDFI Network, Appalachian Community Capital, Inclusiv, Opportunity Finance Network, Coalition for Green Capital, Climate United, and Justice Climate Fund. The letters request from each organization a full list of its employees as well as all documents and communications between the organization and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) related to the GGRF. The letters allege that the GGRF was “designed to reward President Joe Biden’s political allies.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | environmental | abuse of power, fraud

Letters to UCLA, Barnard College, The George Washington University, and Columbia University requesting information about incidents on campus involving the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The letters note that SJP is supported by American Muslims for Palestine, which allegedly have ties to Hamas.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-discrimination, anti-terrorism

Letters from Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens to five schools requesting answers regarding their “lackluster response to the rise of antisemitism on their campuses. The schools are Barnard College, Bowdoin College, Northwestern University, Pomona College, and Sarah Lawrence College. The letters cite incidences such as protests in support of Palestinians and the provision of legal representations by students in a clinic to organizers of a demonstration.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-discrimination

Letters from Representatives Jim Jordan and Brian Mast to PEF Israel Endowment Funds, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Movement for Quality Government in Israel, Blue and White Future, Jewish Communal Fund, and Middle East Peace Dialogue Network requesting information about these organizations’ funding agreements with USAID or the State Department, these organizations’ relationships to each other, and a “detailed breakdown” of how the organizations spent funds received from USAID, the State Department, or each other. The letters allege that these organizations supported protests in Israel, which “jeopardizes” the U.S.’s relationship with Israel and “undermines core civil liberties” in both countries. The letters also formally request the organizations to “preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to the topics addressed” in the letters.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | funder, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | fraud

Letter to DOJ and FBI asking what the institutions are doing to investigate and address “threats posed by outside groups to safety on college campuses,” whether the institutions are coordinating with the Department of Education to gather information needed to investigate antisemitic harassment and discrimination, and steps the institutions are taking to ensure that colleges and universities are “fully apprised of threats to campus safety.” The letter cites its concern for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)’s support of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and its campus demonstrations as the impetus for the questions.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-discrimination, anti-terrorism

Letter to American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) requesting information about the relationship between AMP, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as other information relating to AMP’s involvement on college campuses. The letter expresses concern about AMP’s engagement on college campuses in light of its alleged ties to terrorist organizations. It also describes campus demonstrations as posing “significant threats to campus safety.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s Acting Commissioner encouraging the IRS to investigate the New Georgia Project and revoke the organization’s tax-exempt status. The letter references the Georgia State Ethics Commission (GESC)’s finding that the New Georgia Project made illegal contributions to Stacey Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign. It further notes that the Internal Revenue Code prohibits 501(c)(3) organizations from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | elections | tax exempt status

Letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator requesting more information about the Biden Administration’s allocation of funding, especially to environmental groups. The letter references the recently cancelled arrangement with a financial institution to disburse $20 billion in funds allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | environmental | abuse of power

Letter from Senators Joni Ernst and Rand Paul to the Small Business Administration (SBA) alleging that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America wrongfully applied for and received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. The letter follows previously letters to the SBA and requests information including records of Planned Parenthood affiliates’ applications for PPP funds and details about any Planned Parenthood affiliates’ PPP loans.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | sexual health | fraud

Letters calling on Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University, and the University of Detroit Mercy to end their partnerships with Chinese universities. The letters allege that these universities’ Chinese partners support the Chinese military and that these partnerships jeopardize the security of American research.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | national security

Letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Education alleging the Biden Administration’s lack of enforcement of the requirement for educational institutions that receive federal financial assistance to report receipt of foreign gifts or contracts under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. The letter requests the Department to share information about Section 117 compliance investigations opened and closed during the Biden Administration, Section 117 noncompliance institutions, and other information.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | foreign influence

Letter to Columbia University requesting disciplinary records for antisemitic incidents, noting that Columbia’s alleged failure to uphold its commitments to combat antisemitism is “untenable” given its receipt of federal funding.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution | anti-discrimination

Letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s Acting Commissioner encouraging the IRS to change the way the IRS operates. The letter cites several causes for concern, including the IRS’ “failure to take aggressive action against tax-exempt organizations that have caused antisemitic chaos on college campuses…and may be supporting terrorism.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | tax exempt status

Letter to the National Public Radio (NPR)’s CEO and President requesting the CEO’s availability to testify at a hearing about federally funded radio and television and its “systematically biased content.” The letter cites NPR’s refusal to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story as indication that NPO’s reporting serves a “narrow slice of like-minded individuals and ideological interest groups.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | media | free speech

Letter to the President and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) requesting the President’s availability to testify at a hearing about federally funded radio and television and “its systematically biased content.” The letter criticizes PBS for implying that Elon Musk made a fascist salute during an inaugural celebration for President Donald Trump.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | media | free speech

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Education and the Workforce wrote a letter to the Gladstone Institutes’ president requesting information about antisemitic harassment and intimidation at the institution. Gladstone is a recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and affiliated with other institutions under congressional investigation for antisemitism, including UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | scientific research | anti-discrimination

Letter from Senator Ted Cruz to the U.S. Attorney General asking whether the U.K.-based non-profit Centre for Governance of Artificial Intelligence has registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | responsible AI | foreign influence

Letter to the IRS Commissioner reiterating a call for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke the tax exempt status of Alliance for Global Justice “due to its financial support for its fiscally sponsored project” Samidoun. The letter states that the U.S. Department of Treasury labeled Samidoun a “sham charity” that “serves as a fundraiser for terrorist organizations.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | fiscal sponsor | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter from Chairman Westerman and 7 other members of the Committee to the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) coalition in relation to an investigation of a pro-Palestine protest on National Park Service land in Washington DC on July 24, 2024. The letter alleges potential violations of the permit process and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and potential ties to terrorist organizations. It requests several documents, including those related to the organization of the protest, the funding of the ANSWER coalition by Neville Roy Singham or any foreign entity (particularly those connected with the Chinese Communist Party), and any communications between the coalition and Iran or its terrorist proxies.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, foreign influence, protest

Letters from Chairman Smith to state attorney generals of six states (NY, VA, WA, AZ, CA, and TX) calling on them to investigate different groups registered in their state for potential violation of state law, including domestic terrorism, material support for terrorism, and misrepresentation and fraud. The referenced groups were The People’s Forum, the Westchester People’s Action Coalition, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine, People Media Project, Alliance for Global Justice, Jewish Voices for Peace, Tides Foundation, and United Hands Relief. The letters call for the revocations of some organizations’ charitable registration.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | tax exempt status

Letter from Senators Charles Grassley, Joni Ernst, Ted Cruz, and Tim Scott requesting that the Justice Department and FBI investigate the National Students for Justice in Palestine, and affiliated student chapters, for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | foreign influence

Letter to the IRS Commissioner from Chairman Jason Smith asking the Commissioner to investigate and revoke the tax exempt status for Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine, Alliance for Global Justice, Islamic Relief, Jewish Voices for Peace, the People’s Forum, the Tides Foundation, United Hands Relief, and Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation. To justify this request, the letters point to a number of provisions of the law, including that acts of civil disobedience to do not qualify for tax exemption, that violations of the law that are an “antithesis of the public good” may bar tax exemption, and that organizations that are designated as terrorist organizations cannot maintain tax-exempt status.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | tax exempt status

Letters to over 130 entities, including nonprofits, universities, foundations, companies, and retirement systems, claiming potential violation of anti-trust laws for engaging in the Climate Action 100+ initiative. The letters ask these entities about planned actions under the initiative and request the entities preserve all materials related to their engagement with the initiative and referring to the entity’s own efforts to advance its ESG goals.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental | anti-trust

Letter to the Secretary of the Department of Interior and Director of the National Park Service demanding they open an investigation into the “violent and illegal demonstrations that took place on National Park Service land – particularly Columbus Circle and Union Station- in Washington DC” during the visit of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu on July 24, 2024. A permit had been issued to the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) coalition for the demonstration. The letter demands a full investigation and to refer charges to the Justice Department for civil and criminal prosecution.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | protest

Letter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF) asking the reason the USCCF has received funding from the Tides Foundation, “a left-leaning organization that partners with and sponsors groups that advocate for policies that would harm the American business community.” The letter requests further information regarding this funding and how taxpayers benefit from the USCCF’s tax-exempt status.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | fiscal sponsor, trade or professional association | tax exempt status

Following receipt of a response from the Deputy Counsel to the President, the Committee sent a follow-up letter requesting documentation of communications between the White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Everytown for Gun Safety and Everytown Law.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | gun safety | abuse of power, anti-trust

Letter to White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention Director and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director requesting information about communications with Everytown for Gun Safety and Everytown Law, its litigation arm. Everytown is a gun safety organization that is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Glock, a firearm manufacturer. The letter notes that Everytown’s President had tweeted about “a private meeting between Glock and the White House,” which “raises questions about collusion” between the White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention and Everytown.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | gun safety | abuse of power, anti-trust

Letter from Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Marco Rubio to the U.S. Attorney General calling on the Justice Department to investigate 18 U.S. non-profit organizations for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The organizations allegedly received funds from Neville Roy Singham, an American philanthropist based in China. The named groups are Code Pink, No Cold War, Tricontinental, United Community Fund, Justice and Education Fund, People’s Support Foundation, New Frame, People’s Forum, Dongsheng News, Shut It Down for Palestine, ANSWER Coalition, International People’s Assembly, Al-Awda NY, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, Palestinian American Community Center NJ, Samidoun, and BreakThrough Media.

Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US-China relations | foreign influence

Letter from the Chairpersons of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight, and Education and the Workforce to the U.S. Attorney General (AG) urging the AG to investigate The Palestine Chronicle and People Media Project for providing material support to a known terrorist organization and for filing false tax returns and failing to pay estimated taxes. Palestine Chronicle had a contributor who allegedly took part in holding Israelis hostage.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Follow-up letter threatening subpoena after American Muslims for Palestine communicated it did not have information on funding for National Students for Justice Palestine.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to the Executive Director for American Muslims for Palestine requesting documents and information related to funding of the National Students for Justice Palestine (National SJP). The letter cites concerns that “organizations promulgating pro-Hamas propaganda and engaging in illegal activities at institutions of higher education might be receiving funding or other support from foreign or domestic sources which support the aims of Hamas or other foreign terrorist organizations.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to Stanford University after reports that the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is being “discontinued” requesting information about the activities of the SIO and any successor organization. The SIO had partnered with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to research voting-related misinformation during the 2020 U.S. elections.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | content moderation, elections | free speech

Letter from six U.S. Senators (Senator Ted Budd, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Pete Ricketts, and Senator Joni Ernst) calling on the IRS to investigate Palestine Chronicle and revoke its nonprofit status for allegedly employing a freelance journalist accused of taking part in holding Israelis hostage after the October 6 attacks.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter from Senator J.D. Vance and Representative Matthew Gaetz to the Secretary of State to provide information on any agreements with Anatoly Bondarenko or Texty.org, a Ukrainian media outlet, after Mr. Bondarenko published a list of U.S. officials “who did not support the bill for aid to Ukraine in April 2024.” Mr. Bondarenko had reportedly received U.S. government assistance in the past.

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Subpoenas to As You Sow and Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) claiming that they may “facilitate collusion that may violate U.S. antitrust law” for promoting environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related goals.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental | anti-trust

Letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner calling the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of People Media Project, publicly known as Palestine Chronicle, for having as one of its contributors a Palestinian who allegedly took part in taking Israelis hostage. The publication also had articles that called Hamas “resistance fighters” and accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | media | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter to the Treasury Secretary demanding information about any “suspicious activity reports” related to twenty non-profit organizations and funders that are reported to be “organizing, leading, and participating in pro-Hamas, antisemitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests with encampments on American college campuses.” The 20 groups listed are Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, Within Our Lifetime, American Muslims for Palestine, IfNotNow, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Tides Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Solidaire Action, Libra Foundation, Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, Muslim Community Network, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Center for Popular Democracy, Peace Action New York State, People’s Forum, Samidoun, Adalah Justice Project, and Palestine Legal.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | fiscal sponsor, funder, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | foreign influence

Subpoena compelling Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 President Lisa Ohta to participate in a deposition. The deposition is part of the Education and Workforce Committee’s investigation into Local 2325’s “contentious vote and subsequent adoption” of a resolution related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and concerns about “potential retaliation against dissenting union members.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | union | labor

Letter from 16 U.S. Senators to the IRS Commissioner demanding that they “open an investigation to determine if the supporters of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), including the AJP Educational Foundation (AJP), the Tides Foundation, the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC Foundation), and other benefactors of NSJP have engaged in conduct warranting revocation of their tax exempt statuses on the basis of their financial support of NSJP.” The letter cites a 2024 lawsuit filed against AJP and NSJP to claim that AJP serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States and that both organizations responded to Hamas’s “call for mass mobilization” after the October 2023 attack. The Senators who signed the letter were Senator Joni Ernst, Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Thom Tillis, Senator Markwayne Mullin, Senator Roger Marshall, Senator Kevin Cramer, Senator Mike Crapo, Senator Dan Sullivan, Senator James Risch, Senator John Thune, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Mitt Romney, and Senator Katie Britt.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter to the Administrator of the EPA raising concerns that the eleven grantmakers that were selected as passthrough grantmakers for the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program as some of them “have a history of partisan, and in some cases, extreme, environmental activism” and “it appears this program may be funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to radical, far-left organizations whose mission is to protest, disrupt, and undercut United States energy production and leadership.” It asks the administrator for more information on how these grantmakers were selected and how the EPA will oversee the use of these funds.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, fiscal sponsor | protest

Letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner requesting information about the Energy Foundation and The People’s Forum. The letter claims these nonprofits are connected to the Chinese Communist Party because they have received money from American Neville Roy Singham, “who is actively fueling CCP propaganda.” Among other questions, the letter asks the IRS if it has information about whether these groups receive foreign funding, whether the IRS uses a definition of antisemitism when evaluating whether an organization is operating for an exempt purpose, how the IRS determines whether an organization meets exempt purpose, and if it is grounds to revoke tax exempt status if an organization operates to “promote conduct that is counter to public policy.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, funder, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | foreign influence, tax exempt status

Letters to CEOs of five companies, including Procter & Gamble and Unilever, that are part of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) investigating whether the alliance is violating antitrust law by promoting the elimination of disfavored content.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | content moderation | anti-trust

Letter from ten Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, which had donated to the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. The members were Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Thom Tillis, and Senator Marsha Blackburn.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | funder, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter from ten Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to the President of Rutgers University about the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. The members were Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Thom Tillis, and Senator Marsha Blackburn. The letter claims the Center “sponsors events featuring anti-Semitic speakers, individuals who justify violence against the State of Israel, terrorist sympathizers, and advocates for domestic radicalism.” The letter asks if the Center has ever been supported by federal or state funds, either directly or indirectly, or foreign funds. It also asks if the President supports the continued existence of the Center under current leadership.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter from Representatives Elise Stefanik, Jim Banks, and Mike Waltz calling on the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the International Crisis Group for potentially violating the FARA. The letter follows reports that the organization had a memorandum of understanding with the “in-house think tank of the foreign ministry of Iran, the Institute for Political and International Studies.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | think tank | foreign influence

Letter to the Treasury Secretary and IRS Commissioner asking, among other questions: whether they are tracking U.S. tax exempt charities with suspected ties to Hamas or affiliated terrorist organizations, whether they are investigating any U.S. charities “whose employees previously worked for an organization that was deemed a terrorist organization,” and how many tax applications for tax exempt status have been denied because of potential involvement in or risk of terrorism.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter to Energy Foundation China requesting information on all financial assistance it provided to U.S. organizations between 2019 and 2024, as well as communications with U.S. Energy Foundation between 2023 and 2024.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, funder | foreign influence

Letter to Secretary of State Blinken claiming that the State Department sought and received feedback from “leftist environmental groups on the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA).” The letter raises concerns that the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry colluded with these groups by sharing confidential information related to U.S. foreign policy, energy policy, and national security policy.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental | abuse of power

Letter to Code Pink claiming it may be in violation of FARA for potential connections with the Chinese Communist Party. The letter notes that the President of Code Pink is married to Neville Roy Singham, an American philanthropist who is now based in Shanghai, China. It claims that the President of Code Pink has said that they refuse “to criticize any policy of the CCP.” It demands all communications between Code Pink and Neville Roy Singham or the Chinese Communist Party and any documents related to FARA registration or “policies or procedures Code Pink has implemented to ensure compliance with FARA registration requirements.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental | foreign influence

Follow-up letter to LCV claiming that despite a response from LCV and meeting with their attorneys, “LCV has not provided a single document responding to the Committee’s request.” The letter demands that LCV provide all earlier requested communications and a new set of documents, including how LCV classifies political and non-political activity and communications with Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Berger Action Fund, and Wyss Foundation.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, funder | foreign influence

Subpoena to Center for Countering Digital Hate requesting information about the Center’s interactions with the federal government and other social media companies related to content moderation. The subpoena was sent as part of an investigation into whether the federal government during the Biden Administration “coerced” or “colluded” with the private sector to flag and “censor” certain speech as disinformation or misinformation.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | content moderation | abuse of power, free speech

Letter from House Committee on Foreign Affairs to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the State Department concerning a grant to Humanist International provided under the title “Promoting and Defending Religious Freedom Inclusive of Atheist, Humanist, Non-Practicing, and Non-Affiliated Individuals.” The letter asks whether the Department views atheism as a religion and requests training and other materials from the grant.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | government | freedom of religion

Letter demanding the U.S. Attorney General provide information about whether certain U.S. environmental groups and funders may violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign governments. The organizations named were National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rocky Mountain Institute, Climate Imperative Foundation, Rewiring America, and Windward Fund.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental, fiscal sponsor | foreign influence

Letter to Center for Countering Digital Hate requesting information about the Center’s interactions with the federal government and other social media companies related to moderation. The letter was sent as part of an investigation into whether the federal government during the Biden Administration “coerced” or “colluded” with the private sector to flag and “censor” certain speech as disinformation or misinformation.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | content moderation | abuse of power, free speech

Letter to the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) claiming that LCV may be in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The letter expresses concern about LCV’s receipt of funding from foreign sources and the impact that these funding sources may have on LCV’s lobbying activities. The letter requests among other things, documents and communications between LCV and several funders and broader foreign entities, and policies and procedures for disclosing activities implemented in the U.S. that further the interest of a foreign government, entity, or individual.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | environmental | foreign influence

Subpoena to Stanford University for documents related to the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO). The SIO was a member of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and Virality Project (VP), which tracked election-related narratives on social media and filed “tickets” for alleged misinformation and disinformation.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | content moderation | free speech

Letter to United Way requesting information about its funding sources, affiliates and grant subrecipients, information provided to immigrants served by the organization, and communications with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Executive Office of the President, among other information. The letter is part of the Committee’s oversight of the Biden Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | immigration | immigration

As part of the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight of the Biden Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law, it issued a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting information about non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) use of DHS funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support “illegal aliens” at the Southwest Border.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | immigration | abuse of power

Letter to the President of the National School Boards Association, Dr. Viola M. Garcia, who had not responded after a request for information regarding a letter that Dr. Garcia had co-signed “urging the executive branch to use counter-terrorism tools, including the Patriot Act, in response to parents protesting controversial educational curricula and policies.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | educational institution | abuse of power, free speech