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Fact Sheet: H.r. 469, the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017

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H.R. 469 Is an Assault on Americans Health, Safety, and Privacy H.R. 469, the “Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017,” would significantly delay the process for ensuring that statutory deadlines established by Congress are enforced to protect Americans from serious harms such as dirty air and water, unsafe products, and reckless behavior by large financial ins... Read more »

STATEMENT: RANKING MEMBER CONYERS’ ON H.R. 469, THE “SUNSHINE FOR REGULATIONS AND REGULATORY DECREES AND SETTLEMENTS ACT OF 2017"

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during the debate of H.R. 469 the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017. M. Chair__, H.R. 469, the “Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017,” is anti-consumer, anti-environment, and anti-privacy. Not su... Read more »

Fact Sheet: H.r. 732, the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017

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H.R. 732 Would Undermine Civil Law Enforcement and Harm the Public H.R. 732, the “Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017,” is a deeply flawed measure that would undermine the ability of civil law enforcement agencies to provide relief to victims of systemic misconduct. The bill would prohibit settlement agreements that authorize payments to parties not “directly and proximately” harmed by the un... Read more »

STATEMENT: RANKING MEMBER CONYERS’ ON H.R. 732, THE “STOP SETTLEMENT SLUSH FUNDS ACT

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H.R. 732, the “Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017,” would prohibit the federal government from entering into or enforcing any settlement agreement requiring donations to remediate harms that are not “directly and proximately” caused by a wrongdoer’s unlawful conduct. I oppose H.R. 732 for several reasons. To begin with, the bill would prohibit these types of settlement agreements even though... Read more »

STATEMENT: RANKING MEMBER CONYERS’ STATEMENT ON THE AGRICULTURAL GUESTWORKER ACT

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of H.R. 4092 the Agricultural Guestworker Act. H.R. 4092, the “Agricultural Guestworker Act,” is yet the latest attempt by the Majority to address one aspect of our Nation’s broken immigration system. And, on at least two prior occasions, our Commit... Read more »

CUMMINGS AND CONYERS RESPOND TO PARTISAN GOP INVESTIGATION OF FORMER FBI DIRECTOR COMEY’S ACTIONS DURING 2016 ELECTION

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Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to an announcement that Chairmen Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte are opening a partisan Republican investigation into decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Inve... Read more »