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On a bipartisan basis, the House Judiciary Committee has been working on several bills to improve our broken criminal justice system. These bills will insure that our federal criminal laws and regulations are effectively and appropriately enforced, operate with fairness and compassion, protect individual freedom, safeguard civil liberties, work as efficiently as possible, do not impede state efforts, and do not waste taxpayer dollars.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
1:00 p.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Hearing on: Oversight of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Witness: The Honorable Leon Rodriguez, Director, USCIS
"As of this morning, the bill has earned 304 cosponsors-191 Republicans, 113 Democrats, and 27 members of the House Judiciary Committee. What do all of these members have in common?
"First, we all agree that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is outdated and provides unjustifiably inconsistent standards for government access to our stored communications.
"This statute continues to serve as one of the main guarantees of our digital privacy.
Today, U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Member on the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, issued the following statement marking the one-year anniversary of the President's Executive Actions to fix our broken immigration system and after the Department of Justice filed a petition to seek review before the Supreme Court to overturn a Fifth Circuit Court order blocking two of the executive actions:
"Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4038, the so-called 'American SAFE Act,' purports to make us safer.
"But, as the Administration correctly observes, this measure 'would provide no meaningful additional security for the American people.'
"Worse yet, it would effectively deny refugee status for Syrians and Iraqis who are themselves victims of terrorism in their homelands.
"H.R. 4038 is a terribly flawed and inhumane bill for many reasons.
"This hearing, which focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on the security of our Nation's Refugee Admissions Program, has the potential to shed meaningful light on critical issues of interest to all Americans.