Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, urged passage of H.R.6758, the SUCCESS Act, during a Judiciary Committee markup. Congressman Nadler is an original cosponsor of the bill which would direct the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Small Business Administration to study the underrepresentation of women and minorities among patent holders... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee markup of H.R. 5634, the Medical Cannabis Research Act: “Mr. Chairman, although H.R. 5634, the ‘Medical Cannabis Research Act,’ is intended to be a modest, but helpful measure to address certain restrictions on the manufacture of marijuana ... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Democrats urged their Republican committee colleagues to join them in sending a notice to Chairman Goodlatte to force consideration of H.R. 5476, the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, legislation to protect the Special Counsel investigation. House Judiciary Democrats are invoking House Rule XI, Clause 2(c)(2), which would force the Committee to hold a... Read more »
Washington, D.C. (Sept. 11, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to the leaked portions of texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that were mischaracterized by Republican House Members and then repeated ... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 6691, the so-called “Community Safety and Security Act”: “I must oppose H.R. 6691, the so-called ‘Community Safety and Security Act.’ This highly flawed bill is an example of why regular order and a meaningful deliberative process is es... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee markup of H.R. 5468, the Permitting Litigation Efficiency Act of 2018: “Mr. Chairman, today we are considering yet another de-regulatory bill destined to go nowhere. We should at least consider the implications of the so-called ‘Community S... Read more »
Yesterday, the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees conducted a joint interview with Bruce Ohr, a senior career attorney at the Department of Justice, for nearly eight hours. The interview was part of the Majority’s continuing investigation of the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Republicans have alleged that Mr. Ohr’s testimony casts doubt on the early stages of the ... Read more »
Today, in the wake of continuing fallout from the guilty plea of President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen; the conviction of his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort; grants of immunity for David Pecker, Chairman of American Media and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg; and President Trump’s reactions to these events, Ranking Member Jerrol... Read more »
Today, following yesterday's conviction on eight federal charges of President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and the guilty plea of Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to eight felony counts, saying he committed some of them, "at the direction of" Donald Trump, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the fol... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to raise concerns and request a briefing on the Religious Liberty Task Force established by the Department of Justice on July 30, 2018. In their letter, the Members affirm their belief in the basic constituti... Read more »
