Government Oversight
To advance its legislative agenda, the Judiciary Committee conducts regular oversight of the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other government agencies. The Committee is also responsible for determining whether to recommend articles of impeachment against federal officials. In 2019, the Committee advanced two articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump to the House of Representatives.
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Washington, D.C. –Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following closing remarks, as prepared, for the hearing on "The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Presentations from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Judiciary Committee": "After hearing the reports and the evidence today, we now know several things with certainty. |
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Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to the White House regarding the formal transmittal of the Select Committee on Intelligence's Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report and additional transmittals received from investigative Committees. |
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Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a report by the majority staff entitled "Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment." The report details the history, purpose and meaning of the Constitution's Impeachment Clause. It addresses legal questions about the impeachment process and rebuts false claims about impeachment. The staff of the House Judiciary Committee first produced a report addressing this topic in 1974, during the impeachment inquiry into President Richard M. |
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On Monday, December 9, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to receive presentations from counsels to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee, as authorized by the House of Representatives under H. Res. 660. Today, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the names of the counsels who will present before the Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary |
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone's letter informing the Committee that President Trump will not participate in the House impeachment inquiry: |
"The facts before us are undisputed.
"On July 25, President Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine and, in President Trump's words, asked him for a favor.