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Although I rise in qualified support of H.R. 372, the "Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017," I do not endorse the Majority's exaggerated claims regarding the bill's impact on the affordability and availability of health insurance.
H.R. 372 would partially repeal the limited Federal antitrust exemption for the business of insurance established by the McCarran-Ferguson Act in 1945.
Specifically, the bill only permits Federal antitrust enforcement with regard to the business of health insurance.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) provided the following remarks at a hearing entitled, "Examining Systemic Management and Fiscal Challenges Within the Department of Justice" featuring Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Government Accountability Office of Homeland Security and Justice Director Diana Maurer:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement on President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint:
On March 10, 2017, the Trump Department of Justice asked all 46 sitting U.S. attorneys to resign from office. At least one U.S. attorney resisted that request-and on March 11, 2017, President Trump fired Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
At a hearing to reexamine the structure of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and senior Judiciary Member and Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today called out President Donald Trump's dangerous misstatements about the Judiciary in response to court rulings that blocked his Muslim/Refugee ban.
Detroit, MI - On Friday, the Trump Justice Department asked every sitting U.S. Attorney for their resignation. Today, the Trump Administration fired Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee issued the following statement:
Today, all seventeen Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), urging the Chairman to conduct greater oversight of the Trump Administration with respect to ongoing connections between his associates and the government of Russia.