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March 30, 2016

Today, House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following joint statement after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 61 individuals:


March 23, 2016

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), together with the support of all House Judiciary Democrats, introduced a resolution (H.Res. 661) that urges the Senate to observe regular order and to give President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court full and fair consideration and an up-or-down vote.


March 22, 2016

Today's markup of H.R. 4771, the so-called "Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act of 2016," or "HEALTH Act," is the eleventh time since 1995 that we have considered legislation intended to deny medical malpractice victims the ability to be made whole and to hold wrongdoers accountable.


March 22, 2016

TUESDAY, MARCH 22

10:15 a.m. Full Committee Markup

2141 Rayburn House Office Building

H.R. 4771, the "Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2016" (Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.): This bill sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims. The CBO estimates that the reforms contained in the bill would lower health care costs by an estimated $40 billion over a ten-year period.


March 16, 2016

We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. There are currently more displaced people – approximately 60 million – than at any time since World War II.

They are in refugee camps in Africa. They are on boats, in trains, and traveling by foot from the Middle East to Europe. And they are coming to our border from Central America. These are the world's most vulnerable, many of them women and children.

Issues: Immigration

March 16, 2016

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statement after President Obama announced D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland as nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court:


March 16, 2016

U.S. Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, together with 31 original cosponsors, introduced H.R. 4754, the Emergency Financial Manager Reform Act of 2016 to address unchecked decision-making powers that appointed emergency financial managers have in financially distressed cities.


March 15, 2016

Today's Executive Overreach Task Force hearing examines whether President Obama has violated the U.S. Constitution with respect to his authority to enforce the Affordable Care Act and the immigration laws. These are both issues that the full Committee has repeatedly considered in the past and it is clear to me that the President has not violated any constitutional limitations on the exercise of his executive authority as to either of these areas.


March 15, 2016

Today's hearing focuses on whether the Supreme Court's articulation of judicial deference in Chevron is a concept that should be retained in federal administrative law. I believe the Chevron doctrine should be retained for several reasons.

To begin with, enhanced judicial review would make rulemaking even more costly and time-consuming for agencies.

The federal rulemaking process is already deeply ossified.