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In Wake of Trump Campaign Indictments & Russia Investigation Guilty Plea, Conyers Urges Goodlatte to Move in More Bipartisan Manner, Protect Special Counsel from Partisan Attacks

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Tags: Constitution, Government Oversight

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today sent a letter to Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), calling for him to widen the scope of the investigation he launched last week with Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy into decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2016, to include the firing of form... Read more »

Statement: Ranking Member Conyers on the Oversight of the United States Refugee Admissions Program

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Tags: Border Security, Immigration

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Oversight of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security WATCH HERE Over the course of today’s hearing on the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, there are several factors I want our witnesses t... Read more »

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

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Tags: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Constitution, Constitution and Civil Justice (115th Congress), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet (114th Congress)

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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Tags: Government Oversight

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 »