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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The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 338-88 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048).
Today, during debate on the House Floor of H.R. 2048, the "USA FREEDOM Act," House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. urged his colleagues to vote in support of measure. Rep. Conyers delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery:
The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 25-2 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048). This bipartisan bill – introduced by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) – reforms our nation's intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) issued statements strongly opposing efforts by Republicans to overturn anti-discrimination bills that protect workplace equality, reproductive choice, and educational equality in the District of Columbia.
Ranking Member Conyers stated:
House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers today introduced the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, which:
Today, several educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations filed suit to challenge the National Security Agency's "upstream collection" surveillance programs, which monitor all international Internet traffic by intercepting, copying and reviewing Americans' communications en masse by intercepting telephone and Internet traffic from major Internet cables and switches, both foreign and domestic.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E. Serrano, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement in support of the District of Columbia's legal authority to implement its marijuana legalization initiative on Thursday:
Today, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law hearing consumer protection and mortgage lending settlements, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. issued the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery:
"The stated purpose of today's hearing is to determine whether there has been a misuse of mortgage settlement funds by the Administration for its so-called "pet projects."