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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

10:00 a.m. Full Committee Hearing

Impeachment Articles Referred on John Koskinen, Part III

Witness:

• The Honorable John Koskinen, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service

  2237 Rayburn House Office Building

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

10:00 a.m. Full Committee Hearing

Oversight of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Witness:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the agency's set-top box proposal.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) released the following statement regarding copyright concerns with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) set-top box proposal.

Today's hearing focuses on federal diversity jurisdiction whereby federal courts may hear otherwise purely state law cases if the plaintiff and the defendant are citizens of different states.

For more than 2 centuries, Congress has imposed, and the Supreme Court has upheld, the requirement of "complete" diversity, which mandates that every plaintiff must be a citizen of a different state than every defendant for a federal court to have jurisdiction of the lawsuit.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a letter signed by every Democratic member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee requesting that U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch investigate allegations of bribery and other criminal misconduct concerning the $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

11:00 a.m. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice

Hearing on: Exploring Federal Diversity Jurisdiction

Witnesses:

• Mr. Charles Cooper, Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
• Ms. Joanna Shepherd, Professor of Law, Emory Law School
• Mr. Ronald Weich, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore

2237 Rayburn House Office Building

1:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Mr. Speaker, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in our Nation's history.

Its impact has been immeasurable as evidenced by the fact that we are still grappling with the cultural and policy implications stemming from the events of that day.

And, 15 years on, most Americans continue to feel its searing emotional impact, particularly as the anniversary date approaches this Sunday.

H.R. 3438, the "Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists Act of 2016," would stay the enforcement of any rule imposing an annual cost to the economy in excess of $1 billion pending judicial review.

Notwithstanding the bill's colorful short title, H.R. 3438 would have a pernicious impact on rulemaking and the ability of agencies to respond to critical health and safety issues.

In essence, the bill would encourage anyone who wants to delay a significant rule from going into effect by simply seeking judicial review of the rule.