Crime

Mr. Chairman, I support H.R. 68, which would reauthorize and update the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program. This program is an important part of the comprehensive effort to help states improve and operate their juvenile justice systems.

I commend my colleague, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, for her work on this important bill and for her steadfast work to reform the ways our criminal justice and juvenile justice systems treat young offenders.

Thank you, Madam Attorney General, for being with us today.

The news of the past few days has been full of questions about violence, civil rights, and the safety of our police officers-and I want you to know that we take seriously the burden of each of these questions on your office.

It will not have escaped your attention that we are in the middle of election season. You may also know that there are just three working days left until we break for the summer-and, really, not much more time after that until the Congress ends.

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House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) joined members of the Congressional Black Caucus at a press conference today to denounce the slayings of police officers in Dallas, and the slayings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Below are Congressman Conyers' remarks as prepared for delivery:

H.R. 5578, the "Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016," would provide needed protections and rights to victims of sexual assault.

I am proud to be an original cosponsor of this compassionate and thoughtful piece of legislation.

And, I want to congratulate my colleagues -- Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Mimi Waters – for their leadership on this bill, which will help ensure that victims obtain justice.

This legislation would provide victims of sexual assault the right to receive --