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"Today's hearing focuses on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. When Congress established the program in 1990, the intention was to create jobs for American citizens and to bring new investment capital to the United States.
H.R. 759, the "Recidivism Risk Reduction Act," is part of the House Judiciary Committee's criminal justice reform initiative
"I commend the Chairman for bringing H.R. 759 before the Committee today. It is critical, as part of the Committee's efforts to reform our criminal justice system, that we take action to improve our federal prisons, and I am pleased that today we will consider a bipartisan, substitute amendment to this bill which will establish a better way of operating our prisons.
"The massive growth of our prison population is a crisis in both human and fiscal terms. Over the past four decades, the U.S. prison population has skyrocketed.
Thursday, Feburary 11
10:00 a.m. Full Committee Markup (click here to watch)
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"Debates about the proper scope of executive power and its relationship to legislative authority are as old as the Nation itself.
"As the Committee charged with examining issues arising under our Constitution, it is important that we regularly discuss such fundamental matters about our Nation's basic governing framework.
"Today's resolution, which would establish an 'Executive Overreach Task Force' for the next 6 months, is ostensibly the latest effort to fulfill this important obligation.
Yesterday, President Obama announced that U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Department of Justice, in response to the President's directive in July, has issued a report concerning the use of solitary confinement in America. The report includes recommended strategies for prisons at the federal, state, and local levels to pursue, safely reduce solitary confinement, and details changes that the federal Bureau of Prisons will undertake.
Today U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee released the following statements after the Departments of Homeland Security and State announced yesterday implementation of the Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015:
Today U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review the Texas-led challenge (U.S. V. Texas, et al.) to the President's executive immigration actions --Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA):