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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 6691, the so-called "Community Safety and Security Act":
"I must oppose H.R. 6691, the so-called 'Community Safety and Security Act.' This highly flawed bill is an example of why regular order and a meaningful deliberative process is essential to the crafting of legislation.
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Today, following yesterday's conviction on eight federal charges of President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and the guilty plea of Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to eight felony counts, saying he committed some of them, "at the direction of" Donald Trump, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the need for urgent Congressional action: |
Today, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler, held a press conference to introduce the 2018 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
VAWA is set to expire on September 30, 2018. The landmark legislation, enacted in 1994, responds to our nation's crisis of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.