He Says He Takes the 'Oversight' in Oversight Committee Seriously. The Committee's Own Vote Sheets Show Him Absent for 69 of Its 145 Markup Roll Calls.

Why this matters

A committee seat is the reason he gives for investigating a project outside his district. On September 10 he posted that he takes “the ‘Oversight’ in serving on the House Oversight Committee seriously,” and in the attached radio interview he explained why he, and not a Buffalo official, is the one asking a federal inspector general to look at the North Aud Block: “I am a member of the House Oversight Committee. I have oversight over the entire federal government in that respect.” The committee keeps a public record of who shows up for its work. This entry reads that record: every hearing roster the committee has published this Congress and every one of the 161 recorded-vote sheets it has posted. It is the first time this site has compiled it.

Statement

Source: Official Facebook page, September 10, 2026, posting a WBEN 930 AM interview clip.

“I take the ‘Oversight’ in serving on the House Oversight Committee seriously. That’s why I’m calling for an investigation into this Buffalo bait-and-switch boondoggle. A project pitched with $10 million in subsidies ballooned past $80 million in taxpayer giveaways. Doesn’t pass the smell test.”

In the clip, asked why he is “the only elected official who’s actually responding”:

[5:48] “Perhaps it’s because I don’t represent the city proper. I mean, let’s face it, business leaders, they get a lot of pressure from people in power to not ask questions. I don’t have to worry about the leaders of the city, but I am a member of the House Oversight Committee. I have oversight over the entire federal government in that respect. We can ask these questions.”

He also said the low-income housing tax credits at issue “are for everyone and for every district, and there’s a lot of places throughout Western [New York] and the Southern Tier where we have just as big of a housing need” (1:49), and, “I’m not accusing anyone of any crime” (5:00).

The committee’s record

Rep. Langworthy is one of 47 members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He holds no seat on any of its subcommittees or its two task forces, so the full committee’s hearings and markups are the whole of his Oversight work. Two kinds of records exist.

Hearings: present at 7 of 12

Every published hearing transcript opens with a roster of the members who attended at any point. Twelve full-committee hearings held between January 2025 and March 2026 have published transcripts.

Markups: voted on 76 of 145 roll calls

Markups are where the committee votes on bills, amendments, subpoenas and resolutions. For each recorded vote the committee posts a sheet showing every member’s mark. There are 145 such roll calls across 13 markups this Congress. Proxy voting is not permitted in committee, so a blank row means the member was not in the room for that vote.

He voted on all 8 roll calls at the January 14, 2025 organizational meeting. Of the 7 recorded votes taken during hearings (motions to subpoena Elon Musk, Kristi Noem, Pamela Bondi and others, or to table those motions), he voted on 4.

The April 30, 2025 markup. This was the committee’s vote on its piece of the budget reconciliation bill that became the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, Public Law 119-21). Democrats offered 26 amendments; each was defeated 20 to 23 or by a similar margin. The final roll call, “Transmitting Reconciliation Committee Print to the House Budget Committee,” carried 22 to 21. His row is blank on all 28 sheets. Two months later he voted for the bill on the House floor (Roll Call 190, July 3, 2025).

In plain language: in a Congress and a half, the committee has taken 145 recorded votes in markups. He was not in the room for 69 of them, including every vote at three full markups, one of which sent the committee’s share of the Republican budget bill forward by a single vote. He attended 7 of the 12 hearings the committee has published transcripts for, and he was at the six best-attended ones.

Where he was instead

He was in Washington on every one of these days: the House Clerk’s records show him casting floor votes on each date he missed an Oversight hearing or cast no markup vote. The docs.house.gov calendar and the Energy and Commerce Committee’s transcripts show what overlapped.

He sits on the Energy, Health and Environment subcommittees of Energy and Commerce. On the two days he missed an entire Oversight markup in 2025, the committee he chose was one where he holds a subcommittee seat and the Oversight markup was one where he does not. Oversight markups routinely run for hours; the April 30 markup took 28 roll calls, and nothing in the record shows whether he returned after the Energy hearing ended.

The fair reading

• Members double-book. Every member serves on more than one committee, and same-hour conflicts between Energy and Commerce and Oversight are documented above for most of these dates. Choosing the committee where his district’s energy and health work happens is a defensible choice.
• His hearing attendance is average-to-good where it counts. He was present at the six best-attended hearings (44 to 46 of 47 members), the ones with the sanctuary mayors and governors and the Minnesota fraud inquiry. The hearings he missed drew 33 to 42 members, and Member Day drew four.
• A blank row is not a position. On the amendment votes he missed, his party prevailed each time without him; his absence changed no outcome except that the 22 to 21 transmittal vote would have been 23 to 21.
• The claim is about seriousness, not attendance, and seriousness is not measurable. What is measurable is that the committee he invokes as the basis for his North Aud request is the one whose recorded votes he has missed most often.

Questions this raises

1. On April 30, 2025, the Oversight Committee voted 22 to 21 to send its portion of the budget reconciliation bill to the Budget Committee. He was not recorded on that vote or on any of the 27 others that day. Where was he after the Energy Subcommittee hearing ended?
2. He told WBEN the tax credits “are for everyone and for every district” and that the Southern Tier has “just as big of a housing need.” Has he asked HUD, the inspector general, or the state about any housing project or credit allocation in NY-23?
3. Does he consider the committee’s markups, where its bills and subpoenas are decided, part of taking Oversight seriously?

Related fact-checks

• He asked a federal inspector general to investigate a housing project in Buffalo. It isn’t in his district.
• The BUSES Act post vs. the committee record
• State of the District: health access, September 2026

Sources

• Rep. Langworthy, official Facebook page, WBEN interview clip, September 10, 2026: https://www.facebook.com/RepLangworthy/videos/1808436146970346/ (transcript retained)
• House Clerk, Member committee assignments (MemberData.xml): https://clerk.house.gov/xml/lists/MemberData.xml
• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, task force rosters: https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/task-force-on-the-declassification-of-federal-secrets/ and https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/task-force-on-defending-constitutional-rights-and-exposing-institutional-abuses/
• docs.house.gov Committee Repository, Oversight full-committee events and recorded-vote sheets, e.g. April 30, 2025 markup: https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=118179 (Vote 27: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20250430/118179/CRPT-119-GO00-Vote027-20250430.pdf); March 25, 2025: https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=118060; March 18, 2026: https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=119082. All 161 sheets and their text layer are retained at research/sources/oversight-attendance-2026-09-10/
• govinfo, hearing transcripts (CHRG-119hhrg series), Oversight full committee (12) and Energy and Commerce subcommittees for March 25, April 30 and June 10, 2025 (CHRG-119hhrg60019, CHRG-119hhrg60382, CHRG-119hhrg60804): https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/chrg
• House Clerk, roll call votes by date (EVS), e.g. April 30, 2025, Roll Calls 111 and 112: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll111.xml
• House Clerk, Roll Call 190, July 3, 2025 (H.R. 1): https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190

Note: This entry documents publicly available committee records. It does not allege that any absence was improper; members are routinely scheduled in two committees at once. Attendance is inferred from the committee’s own hearing rosters and vote sheets, which record who appeared or voted, not for how long. Rep. Langworthy’s office has not been asked for comment as of this writing; any response will be published in full.

Last updated: September 10, 2026