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Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, for the House Judiciary Markup of H.R. 354, the "LEOSA Reform Act"

"Mr. Chairman, the LEOSA Reform Act would remove critical gun safety protections from the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act, or LEOSA, which became law in 2004. To understand just how problematic this bill is, it is helpful to revisit a little bit of history from this Committee's past.

Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hearing on "Intellectual Property: Enforcement Activities by the Executive Branch":

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening this important hearing. Roughly a decade ago, we learned through this Committee's bipartisan Overcriminalization Task Force-of which I was a member-that there are simply too many federal criminal laws on the books, that their reach is often too broad, and that too many individuals are jailed for far too long because of them.

For too long, Congress-under both parties-has created new offenses or expanded existing laws in response to a national crisis, daily headlines, or highly publicized tragedies-often federalizing crimes traditionally prosecuted in states-without inquiry into whether the federal government should be involved at all.

Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, for the House Judiciary Committee Markup of H.R. 4961, the "Ensuring Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act":

"Mr. Chairman, I was proud to join the Gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Van Drew, in introducing the Ensuring Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. This bipartisan legislation would make three technical corrections to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, to ensure that foreign state actors cannot exploit ambiguities or drafting errors in the original law to evade justice.