Darrell Issa: “I now will place in the record a letter from the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee supporting the bill, but…”

“I now will place in the record a letter from the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee supporting the bill, but recognizing that the primary jurisdiction over this database belongs to the Ways and Means Committee, and we are responding in the affirmative for that. Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, April 15, 2013. Hon. Darrell Issa, Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Issa, On March 20, 2013, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reported H.R. 1162, the Government Accountability Office Improvement Act, favorably to the House. Section 2, dealing with authority to access the National Directory of New Hires in Section 453 of the Social Security Act, touches the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means. As a result of your having consulted with the Committee concerning the provision of the bill that falls within our Rule X jurisdiction, I agree not to seek a sequential referral so that the bill may proceed expeditiously to the House floor. The Committee on Ways and Means takes this action with the mutual understanding that, by forgoing consideration of H.R.…”