TUESDAY, JULY 12 10:00 a.m. Full Committee Hearing on: Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness: The Honorable Loretta Lynch, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice 2237 Rayburn House Office Building 3:00 p.m. Executive Overreach Task Force Hearing on: Executive Overreach in Regulatory Enforcement and Infrastructure Witnesses: The Honorable Michael Mukasey, Of Counsel, Debevoise & Plim... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging for swift action on gun violence. Full text of the letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman is below and attached. June 14, 2016 Chairman Bob Goodlatte House Judiciary Committee 21... Read more »
Earlier today, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Task Force on National Security introduced its national security portion of the so-called “Better Way” agenda – a rebranding of old partisan proposals. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the release o... 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 »
Strengthening the security of the immigration and visa issuance process is a critical issue for all Americans. As one who believes our Nation should be a beacon of freedom and liberty, I very much appreciate the need to effectively combat terrorism, while maintaining our commitment to core values. Unfortunately, H.R. 5203, the “Visa Integrity and Security Act,” fails to honor those core values. Th... Read more »
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to associate myself with your comments about our jurisdiction. “It is not an accident that the House Judiciary Committee is the committee of primary jurisdiction with respect to the legal architecture of government surveillance. “In times of heightened tension, many of our colleagues will rush to do something, anything, to get out in front of an issue. We welcome t... Read more »
On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy.” The House Judiciary Committee previously held member briefings on encryption, which included a briefing from technology companies and a classified briefing from the government. As encryption has increasingly become much more widespr... Read more »
“For several reasons, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in opposing H.R. 3892, the ‘Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015.’ “Most importantly, our Committee is marking up this bill without holding a single hearing and without considering the serious diplomatic and foreign policy ramifications of our actions. “Less than one year ago, our Committee marked up a... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement after the White House unveiled its roadmap for closing the U.S. military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: “It is long past time to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. The prison undermines our national security. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to operate. It remains a bli... Read more »
Earlier this week, through a court order, the United States government demanded that Apple Inc. help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) develop software in an effort to break the encryption on an iPhone that was recovered after the recent shootings in San Bernardino, California. The government cited the “All Writs Act,” enacted in 1789, to demand that the technology company create a new ver... Read more »
