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Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that they plan to introduce a censure resolution following the MLK holiday next week, in response to President Donald Trump's comments on American immigration policy regarding Haiti and African countries during a January 11, 2018 meeting with Members of Congress.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Richmond and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Nadler released the following joint statement:
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the Trump Administration and Scott Lloyd, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), blocked the fourth young immigrant woman from obtaining an abortion:
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during the debate of "S.139, the "FISA Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 2017."
I rise in strong opposition to S. 139, the "FISA Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 2017," which reauthorizes Section 702 of FISA for six years without enacting adequate protections for our privacy.
Supporters of this measure want to convince us a new, incredibly narrow warrant provision actually constitutes reform. It does not.
This Bill Continues Warrantless Access to Email and Phone Calls
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) welcomed Congresswoman Val Demings (FL-10) to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and announced the new subcommittee structure for the second session of the 115th Congress.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee's markup of "H.R. 506, the "Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017."
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to support H.R. 506, the "Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act."
House Democratic Ranking Members Eliot Engel, Maxine Waters, Jerrold Nadler, Bennie Thompson, Elijah Cummings and Robert Brady sent a letter to Speaker Ryan today urging House Republicans to join Democrats to fully investigate and address Russia's threat to our democracy and national security. This letter comes as we mark one year since the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's report confirming Russia's meddling into the 2016 election and America's continued vulnerability to foreign interference.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives will consider S. 139, a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This bill fails to accomplish any meaningful reform or provide any significant measure of privacy protections. S. 139 is a deeply flawed bill that ultimately jeopardizes the reauthorization of Section 702 altogether.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released a joint statement with Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), after the Trump Administration announced its decision to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Salvadorans:
"President Trump's decision to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Salvadorans, many of whom have legally lived and worked in this country for decades, is shameful and wrong.
Twelve members of the United States Senate and 33 members of the United States House filed a Congressional amicus brief in the appeal of the case City of Chicago v. Sessions, which is the lawsuit that the City of Chicago brought in August seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from blocking critical violence prevention funds from American cities in order to boost the Trump Administration's extreme immigration agenda.