Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 2666, the “AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2017.” Thank you, Mr. Chairman. H.R. 2666, the “AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2017,” is an important bill to give Indian tribes the ability to respond quickly to child abductions. Through... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 4477, the “Fix NICS Act of 2017.” Mr. Chairman, I support the “Fix NICS Act” as a sensible step to improve our national firearms background check system. When we enacted the Brady Act in 1994, we evolved from a waiting period-based system to o... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 38, the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.” Mr. Chairman, I strongly oppose the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” and I am disappointed that this legislation is before us today. The level of gun violence in our country is astounding and... Read more »
On Friday, December 1st from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., House Judiciary Committee Democrats and the Congressional Progressive Caucus will host a briefing on the impact of the largest internet companies on competition, innovation, and democracy. There is increasing concern that the size and power of some of the largest technology companies may harm competition, threaten the future of innovation, and ... Read more »
Congressional Black Caucus Chair, Cedric L. Richmond, Ranking Member, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers Jr., and CBC Judicial Nominations Working Group Chair, Eleanor Holmes Norton sent a letter to United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman, Chuck Grassley, urging him to uphold the longstanding blue slip policy, which prevents the Committee from considering a judicial nom... Read more »
H.R. 170, the “Protect and Grow American Jobs Act,” as introduced, would increase the wage level that H-1B dependent employers must pay to avoid jumping through certain hoops in the H-1B immigrant visa program. These are employers who heavily rely on foreign workers and have 15 percent or more of their workforce on H-1B visas. I did not support a predecessor bill last Congress because I did not b... Read more »
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) and U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member David N. Cicilline (RI-01) pressed for a hearing on growing evidence of the Trump administration allowing politics to impact their review of mergers in the telecommunications and media industries. “We write to request that the House Judiciary Committee hold a heari... Read more »
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the ordinary course of business, any one of a dozen topics related to the Department of Justice would be worthy of its own hearing. And, to be clear, I would rather spend our time today discussing the upkeep of the criminal justice system, the enforcement of civil rights, and the work we must all do to ensure access to the ballot box. Instead, we must spend our time deb... Read more »
Today, U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time during its annual oversight hearing. Every Attorney General before Attorney General Sessions has testified before the House Judiciary Committee during their first six months of taking office. Watch the hearing on House Judiciary Democrats’ Facebook page here. Watch Her... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks the House Judiciary Committee’s Markup of H.R. 3989, the USA Liberty Act. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to begin by acknowledging the opposition to this bill. There are many in the civil liberties community who fear that H.R. 3989, the USA Liberty Act, does not accomplish every reform we had ... Read more »
