In response to the Supreme Court’s decision today in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, which overturned the decades-old precedent of deference toward federal agency decision-making that the Court announced in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler and Administrative State, Regulatory Reform,... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC - House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes today released a staff report titled, "House Republicans Lack Evidence to Substantiate Latest CIA Conspiracy Theory:" In the forward to report, the Members write, in part: "When it comes to congressional investigations, House Republicans are failure... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following floor statement, as prepared, in opposition to the resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress: "M_. Speaker, the Judiciary Committee, under Republican control, has spent the last 18 months, and twenty million taxpayer dollars, in a desperate search to find something—anything—that t... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released a Democratic staff report titled, “Unsustainable and Unoriginal: How the Republicans Borrowed a Bogus Antitrust Theory to Protect Big Oil." The report highlights what Democratic members and staff have learned about Chairman Jordan's aimless crusade against the use of Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) policies... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to commend the Biden Administration for opening a public inquiry into how private equity and corporate greed has... Read more »
Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement, as prepared for the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice": "Mr. Chairman, I have been in Congress since 1992. My colleagues and I, of course, have had our political disagreements in the past thirty years. But ultimately, in this Committee, we have worked together—more often t... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler and 9 colleagues on the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust sent a letter to the Department of Justice, urging the agency to immediately open an investigation into potential antitrust conspiracies among U.S. oil producers, OPEC, and OPEC+. The members explain: “Gas prices today average $3.60 per g... Read more »
Following recent reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito displayed a flag at his home indicating support for the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement, House Judiciary Committee Democrats wrote to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts requesting information about whether Justice Alito violated the Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct and how Chief Justice Roberts plans to enforce the new rules. The ... Read more »
Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, for the House Judiciary Committee Markup of H.R. 8296, The GAO Database Modernization Act: "Mr. Chairman, the GAO Database Modernization Act would amend the Congressional Review Act to require federal agencies to report to the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, certain information about agency rules... Read more »
Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, for the House Judiciary Committee Markup of H.R. 7909, the "Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act": "Mr. Chairman, here we are again marking up a bill that is another attempt by the majority to scapegoat and fearmonger about immigrants. Despite its title, this bill will impact not only those ... Read more »
