Following the Senate vote rejecting the USA Freedom Act, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following joi... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-M.) and Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Justice Department’s request for an emergency stay in Texas, et al. v. United States, et al., the multi-state lawsuit against President Obama’s ex... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement regarding attempts at a short-term extensio... Read more »
Today, more than 70 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, sent a letter to President Obama to adopt a federal fair chance hiring policy. This effort was co-led by Reps. Conyers (D-MI), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Danny Davis (D-IL), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). “The federal government should not be in the business of erecting barriers between those who have made... Read more »
Today, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and 56 other members of Congress sent a letter calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to undertake a rulemaking to prohibit forced arbitration agreements in consumer financial services and products. On March 10, 2015, the CFPB issued a report finding that more than three in four consumers were unaware of forced a... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement urging the Senate to pass the USA Freedom A... Read more »
Today, during a full House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Policing Strategies for the 21st Century,” Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) delivered the following opening statement: “Law enforcement accountability is an issue that is very topical given current events, but also one that has long been a concern of mine and many other Members. “As a Member of Congress, I have stood on the streets ... Read more »
The following is the House Judiciary Committee’s schedule for the week May 18 - 22. Tuesday, May 19 2015 10:00 a.m. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Full Committee Hearing: Policing Strategies for the 21st Century Witnesses for the Hearing: Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office. Mr. W. Craig Hartley, Jr., Executive Director, Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcemen... Read more »
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled “Policing Strategies for the 21st Century.” This hearing will examine police accountability, aggression towards law enforcement, public safety concerns related to these issues, and solutions to address these problems. Witnesses for Tuesday’s hearing are: · Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., Milwaukee County... Read more »
Lee, Leahy, Sensenbrenner, Goodlatte, Conyers, Nadler: “We will oppose any extension of the NSA’s bulk collection program.” Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), and Congressma... Read more »
