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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) released a document entitled "Alternative Facts" v. Reality: Ethics, Conflicts of Interest, and the Emoluments Clause.

Today, House Judiciary Committee Republicans voted to kill Rep. Jerrold Nadler's (D-NY) resolution of inquiry, H. Res. 111.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I strongly support this important resolution of inquiry.

In the days leading up to consideration of this resolution, I have had ten names on my mind:

Edward Hutchinson. Henry Smith. Charles Sandman. Charles Wiggins. David Dennis. Wiley Mayne. Delbert Latta. Trent Lott. Carlos Moorhead. Joseph Maraziti.

These men, of course, were the ten members of this Committee who, in the summer of 1974, voted against all three articles of impeachment against President Nixon.

Today's markup of H.R. 1215, the so-called "Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017," is the twelfth time since 1995 that we have considered legislation intended to deny victims of medical malpractice and defective medical products the ability to be made whole and to hold wrongdoers accountable.

I support H.R. 372, the "Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017," which repeals the antitrust exemption in the McCarran-Ferguson Act for the health insurance business.

For many years, I have advocated for such a repeal and so I am pleased to see bipartisan support for this position.

My own bill, H.R. 143, the "Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2017," would similarly repeal the McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption for the health insurance business.

This evening, CNN reports that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus asked the FBI to "knock down" media reports about communications between the Russian government and associates of President Trump. If these reports are accurate, the White House may have violated Department of Justice policies established in 2007 and 2009 to limit direct communications about pending investigations between the White House and the FBI.

Detroit, MI – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement:

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), today released the following joint statement in response to reports that President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security had plans to use the National Guard to round up and deport undocumented immigrants:

"This draft memo shows the depths that Donald Trump will go to implement his callous "deportation force" and instill panic and fear among immigrant families and communities throughout this nation.