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H.R. 5422 is a bipartisan measure intended to ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
This commonsense bill would direct funding to the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the grant money for this Hotline.
The crime of human trafficking is a terrible scourge that deprives people of their dignity, humanity, and freedom.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
10:00 a.m. Full Committee Markup
H.R. 5422, "To ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes"
H.R. 1669, the "Judgment Fund Transparency Act of 2015"
2237 Rayburn House Office Building
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) today released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 72 individuals:
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 98 individuals this week:
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 14, 2016)-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Eliot L. Engel, and Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to evidence that the Trump campaign apparently knew months beforehand about the hacking of emails from the account of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta:
Detroit, MI – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) today announced more than $2 million in federal funding for police departments in Detroit and Melvindale. The federal funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Hiring Program (CHP) and will be used to hire law enforcement officers, and to enhance community policing and crime prevention efforts.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Director Comey, for your appearance here today.
The FBI's mission is a complex undertaking: to protect the United States from terrorism, to enforce our criminal laws, and to lead the nation's law enforcement community.
That mission ought to mirror our own priorities in this Committee.
In the past few days, for example, we have witnessed near-fatal terrorist attacks in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey.
I want to preface my remarks regarding today's hearing, which deals with community policing policies, by observing that our Nation's conscience continues to be rocked by a series of tragic events involving law enforcement and the loss of too many black lives.
In our court rooms, in our streets and on our televisions, we confront a never ending body count. Earlier this summer, my Congressional colleagues and I staged an unprecedented sit-in – just to try to get a vote on common sense gun legislation.