Goodlatte-Conyers Letter to 11th Circuit Court Requesting Status of Investigation of Alabama Judge Mark E. Fuller
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12/01/14 Letter to 11th Circuit Court » Read more »
Government Oversight
Conyers Still Supports USA Freedom Act Blocked by Senate Republicans
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., released the following statement after the Senate fell two votes short of ending debate on the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014. The 58-42 vote effectively cuts off any prospect of surveillance reform in the 113th Congress. The USA FREEDOM Act would have introduced sweeping reforms to various government surveillance programs, including the ... Read more » Joint Judiciary Committee Leadership Letter to CDC Director about September 2014 Security Lapse
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Joint Cmte. Leadership Letter to Acting CDC Director » Read more » Congressman John Conyers and Senator Grassley Question New Practice Denying Records to DOJ Inspector General
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House and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Members John Conyers, Jr. and Chuck Grassley are raising questions about a new practice by the Justice Department denying certain records to the department’s Inspector General. During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in September, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, raised concerns about the FBI’s refusal... Read more » Joint Judiciary Committee Ranking Members Letter to Acting AG on Intent of IG Act
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Joint Cong. Judiciary Cmte. Ranking Members Letter to Acting AG » Read more » Judiciary Committee Letter to Secret Service AD about White House Security Failures
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Judiciary Cmte. Letter to AD Clancy » Read more » House Judiciary Committee Seeks Answers on Series of Secret Service Failures
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.) sent a letter to Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy seeking answers to over a dozen questions regarding a... Read more » Rep. John Conyers Statement on Attorney General Eric Holder's Resignation
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. released the following statement on the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from the Department of Justice: “Attorney General Eric Holder has delivered the utmost distinguished service during his tenure in the Obama administration. As the first African American to serve as attorney general, Mr. Holder has shown vigorous... Read more » Conyers: “Judiciary Republicans Approve Bill to Spend Billions Reviewing All Federal Regulations”
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Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee Markup of H.R. 4874, the “Search for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act of 2014.” Section 101(K) of the bill funds a new Retrospective Regulatory Review Commission by taking $ 25 million or 1%, whichever is greater, of unobligated funding from federal agencies. Under any methodology this figure would... Read more » Conyers, Goodlatters, Nadler, Sensenbrenner, Scott, and Forbes Applaud House Passage of the USA FREEDOM Act
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The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 302-121 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361), a bipartisan bill authored by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) that ends bulk collection of data by the government and reforms our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ... Read more » Browse Documents by Date or Issue |
