Government Oversight

Blumenthal & Conyers Lay Out the Constitutional Case for Compelling President Trump to Obey Anti-Corruption Foreign Emoluments Clause

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Tags: Constitution, Government Oversight

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maria McElwain (Blumenthal) (202) 224-6452 Shadawn Reddick-Smith (Conyers) (202) 225-6906 Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) held a press conference to outline the Constitutional case for compelling President Trump to obtain the consent of Congress before accepting payments, benefits, or... Read more »

Ahead of Sessions’ Testimony, House Judiciary Dems Call on Attorney General to Clarify His Role in Ongoing Russia Investigation

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Tags: Government Oversight, National Security

Ahead of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence this week, House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions requesting information on the charges made by former FBI Director James Comey last week. This is the ninth letter sent to the Department of Justic... Read more »

Judiciary Democrats Press Ivanka Trump Brand about Conflicts of Interest

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Tags: Government Oversight, Patent and Trademark

After receiving a vague response to a previous inquiry, House Judiciary Committee Democrats today pressed Ivanka Trump Operations for answers on their business dealings with foreign countries and Ivanka Trump’s involvement with the company. On May 3, 2017, every Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee sent letters to White House Counsel Donald McGahn and to Abigail Klem, president of Iv... Read more »

Conyers to Intelligence Community: Breaking Your Promise on Section 702 is Unacceptable

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Tags: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Government Oversight

In April and December of last year, a bipartisan group from the House Judiciary Committee wrote to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to ask for “a public estimate of the number of communications or transactions involving United States persons that may be captured by Section 702 surveillance on an annual basis.” On April 7, 2017, Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Ranking Member Jo... Read more »

Conyers Statement on Trump Nominating a New FBI Director

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Tags: Government Oversight

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. today released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he will nominate Christopher A. Wray, the former Assistant Attorney General, to be the next Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director: “The nation’s top law enforcement agency needs leadership and must have a confirmed director, but I am dee... Read more »