Government Oversight Committee

Republican Representative Chad Perkins says constituents have told him that they called to apply for LIHEAP benefits in September, but didn't get appointments until March and June.

Critics say Hudak should recuse himself from negotiations with a software contractor led by a former business partner.

The bill is sponsored by six members of the Government Oversight Committee, which oversees investigations by the legislature's watchdog agency. While the agency used confidential records in its investigations of four child deaths that occurred in 2021, court rulings have found that members of the oversight committee don't have access to the same documents.

The records were provided to the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability to probe the deaths of four children in state care in 2021, but not legislative panel that oversees the agency. The court says that was by design.

In a unanimous vote this week, the lawmakers directed staff in the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, or OPEGA, to gather data on staff vacancies, ratios, and injuries.

A watchdog agency has found that Maine's child protection program repeatedly failed to ensure the safety of children in a home where an infant died of abuse years later.

The Legislature's Government Oversight Committee has written a letter urging Republican Gov. Paul LePage to apologize for ridiculing a GOP state senator…

For the second time in less than two months, the Legislature's Government Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena a high ranking official at the Maine…

AUGUSTA, Maine - A LePage administration official is set to testify before a legislative watchdog investigating Maine's struggling child welfare system.…

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee, after over a year of study, has voted to submit legislation to overhaul the state's…