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May 13, 2015

On May 12, 2015, the House of Representatives approved the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015 (S. 665) by voice vote and the bill is now headed to the President's desk to be signed into law.

Issues: Crime

May 7, 2015

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the statement below after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection program is not authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. They are the authors of the USA Freedom Act (H.R.


May 1, 2015

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) today announced that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine police accountability, aggression towards law enforcement, public safety concerns related to these issues, and solutions to address these problems. The hearing will be held this month and witnesses will be announced at a later date.


April 30, 2015
Opening Statement

Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
Markup of H.R. 2048, the "USA FREEDOM Act"
Before the Committee on the Judiciary

Thursday, April 30, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.
2141 Rayburn House Office Building