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House select subcommittees on the coronavirus — investigation documents
Select Subcommittee Coronavirus — 5 court filings in the archive, mostly from House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis / Committee on Small Business, filed between July 30, 2020 and December 4, 2024.
Case facts
| Court | House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis / Committee on Small Business (2 filings); House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, 118th Congress (2 filings) |
|---|---|
| Filings | 5 public filings |
| Filed | 2020-07-30 – 2024-12-04 |
Case summary
This page collects five documents of two successive House select subcommittees, dated between July 30, 2020 and December 4, 2024. Two are investigation letters from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the Committee on Small Business about the Small Business Administration's Economic Injury Disaster Loan processing contract: one of July 30, 2020 to RER Solutions, Inc. and one of February 11, 2021 to Rapid Finance. The third is the June 2022 staff report "Idle on EIDL Fraud". The remaining two are from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the 118th Congress and are dated December 4, 2024: the recommendations of its After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the transcript of the business meeting adopting that review.
Case at a glance
| Parties | Issuing bodies: the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis with the Committee on Small Business, and the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the 118th Congress. Addressees of the letters: RER Solutions, Inc. and Rapid Finance |
|---|---|
| Court and docket | Agency / no docket. These are congressional letters, a staff report and meeting material |
| Program | COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and its loan-processing contract |
| Claims | Not applicable. The letters make document and information requests, the staff report makes findings and recommendations, and the after action review makes recommendations |
| Disposition or status | Complete as issued. The last documents on the page are the after action review recommendations and the business meeting transcript of December 4, 2024 |
| Status checked | 2026-09-23 · against DOJ press releases through 2026-09-22; court docket not yet read |
What do the two letters ask about?
The July 30, 2020 letter states that the committees are examining the Small Business Administration contract issued to process Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications, which it describes as expanded from an emergency $50 million award of March 29, 2020 to half a billion dollars. The February 11, 2021 letter states that the contract was then worth $750 million and that Rocket Loans and Rapid Finance, as subcontractors, were expected to receive more than $360 million.
What is the June 2022 staff report?
"Idle on EIDL Fraud: Staff Report", subtitled "How the Trump Administration Wasted Taxpayer Dollars by Leaving the COVID-19 EIDL Program Vulnerable to Fraud". Its findings, as the subcommittee states them, are that the Small Business Administration failed to implement basic fraud controls and that the EIDL processing contract was awarded to a small company that relied on a subcontractor for nearly all the work.
What does the December 2024 after action review recommend?
Its first recommendations concern the origins of COVID-19, including that the intelligence community continue its investigation and that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassify information related to the origins, as far as the law allows and in line with the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.
Summary written from the documents on this page; every sentence is sourced.
Filings
5 public filings from this case, in filing-date order.
- Clyburn to RER Solutions — EIDL Contracting Investigation Letter (July 30, 2020)
- Clyburn to Rapid Finance — EIDL Fraud Controls Investigation Letter (February 11, 2021)
- Idle on EIDL Fraud: Staff Report — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (June 2022)
- After Action Review Recommendations — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (December 4, 2024)
- Business Meeting Transcript — Adoption of After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic (December 4, 2024)
Court, dates and docket numbers are as recorded on the filings.