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Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during an oversight hearing on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

"Mr. Chairman, the United States Patent and Trademark Office plays a vital role in fostering innovation in this country. The thousands of employees who examine patent and trademark applications are truly at the forefront of helping to bring new technologies and new companies into existence, each with the potential of being the next game-changer or Fortune 500 company.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a hearing on "Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them:"

"Mr. Chairman, today this Committee finally gets back to the serious work of keeping Americans safe-safe from those who seek to do us harm and safe from those who might trample on our civil liberties in a quest to keep our country secure, no matter the cost.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security and Enforcement hearing on ""The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children:"

"Mr. Chairman, today's hearing would have been more appropriate to conduct last week, before the Republican Majority marked up its extreme enforcement-only immigration legislation.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a hearing on the Oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:

From a Judiciary Committee Spokesman:

"In an effort to smear Secretary Blinken and sensationalize a three-year-old tabloid story, Jim Jordan has released cherry-picked excerpts of a transcribed interview. To be clear, no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden's laptop.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a markup of the Border Security and Enforcement Act (H.R. 2640):

"Mr. Chairman, after three and a half months of Republican infighting and chaos, the Judiciary Committee is finally holding its first markup of legislation this Congress.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a markup of H.J. Res. 44, Disapproval of Stabilizing Brace Rule:

"Mr. Chairman, gun violence continues to take the lives of more than 100 Americans every day. It changes how safe we feel in our schools and our houses of worship. It reduces vibrant cities to somber headlines. It takes our loved ones-old and young-and leaves us with another anniversary of lives cut short and a community forever changed.