(Tuesday, July 5, 2016) – Ahead of Wednesday’s public meeting of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) conference committee, Democratic conferees are urging their Republican counterparts to support the addition of $920 million fully paid for by bipartisan offsets for states to provide critical resources to respond to the nation’s opioid and heroin epidemic. In a letter to Conference ... Read more »
The House Judiciary Committee has announced a markup for Thursday, July 7, 2016. Below is the Committee’s schedule for the week of July 5-8, 2016. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 10:00 a.m. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Hearing on: “The Judicial Branch and the Efficient Administration of Justice” Witness: Mr. James Duff, Director, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts 2237 Ra... Read more »
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 10:00 a.m. Full Committee Hearing on: “Examining the Allegations of Misconduct Against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Part II” Witnesses: Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law, George Washington University Andrew McCarthy, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael Gerhardt, Professor in Constitutional Law & Director, Program in Law and Government,... Read more »
Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) unveiled new data from the 2013-2014 school year showing gaps that remain in educational equity and opportunity for students. Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) released the following statement on the release of the... Read more »
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 joint statement on the one year anniversary of the enactment... Read more »
Today, Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) and Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) along with Congressman Blake Fahrenthold (R-TX) and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced H.R. 5321 the Stop Mass Hacking Act. This is the companion bill to legislation introduced on the Senate side by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rand Paul (R-KY). The Department of Justice has recently moved to make an administrative rul... Read more »
In the history of the Republic, the House of Representatives has voted to impeach a federal official only 19 times. I served on this Committee to consider six of those 19 resolutions. I voted in favor of five of them. And I helped to draft articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon—and joined with 20 Democrats and six Republicans—to send three of those articles to the House floor. The... Read more »
Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) and Committee on Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) unveiled the findings of a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on actions needed to reduce racial and socioeconomic segregation, and address disparities in K-12 public schools. Ranking Members Conyers and Scott, along with retired ... Read more »
H.R. 5063, the “Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016,” would prohibit the enforcement or negotiation of any settlement agreement requiring donations to remediate harms that are not “directly and proximately” caused by a party’s unlawful conduct. The proponents of this bill claim that the Justice Department and civil enforcement agencies use such settlement agreements to unlawfully augment their... Read more »
Today, senior Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and the chairs of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) issued a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice to review the impact of recently implanted voting restrictions across the ... Read more »
