Government Oversight

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House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers today introduced the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, which: Extends citizens of major U.S. allies the core benefits that Americans enjoy under the Privacy Act with regard to information shared with the United States for law enforcement purposes; Serves as an important show of support for our allies and is critical to ensure continued sharing of information... Read more »

Today, several educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations filed suit to challenge the National Security Agency’s “upstream collection” surveillance programs, which monitor all international Internet traffic by intercepting, copying and reviewing Americans’ communications en masse by intercepting telephone and Internet traffic from major Internet cables and switches, both foreign and... Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E. Serrano, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement in support of the District of Columbia’s legal authorit... Read more »

Today, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law hearing consumer protection and mortgage lending settlements, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. issued the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery: “The stated purpose of today’s hearing is to determine whether there has been a misuse of mortgage settlement funds by the Administration for i... Read more »

By John Conyers Jr. December 19 at 8:14 PM John Conyers Jr., Democrat, represents Michigan's 13th Congressional District in the House. Nearly 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission, which was created in the aftermath of the country's 1967 riots, warned that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal." And now, six years after the election of our first Afri... Read more »

Yesterday the Department of Justice issued an updated policy statement to curb the risks of unlawful profiling by federal law enforcement agencies. Building on the 2003 guidance issued by the Bush administration, the new policy expands covered classifications to include gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and includes activities related to national security an... Read more »

Today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a redacted summary of its 6,000-page report on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency. The report concludes that the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation” techniques in the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 did not effectively assist the agency in acquiring intelligence or in gaining cooperation from detaine... Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) sent a letter to Chief Judge Ed Carnes and Judge Gerald Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit regarding the arrest and the ongoing prosecution of Middle District of Alabama Judge Mark Fuller in Atlanta, Georgia for a violation of state criminal law. Following the laws... Read more »