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Chairman Nadler Welcomes New Democratic Members and Announces Democratic Subcommittee Assignments for 117th Congress

Washington, February 3, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) welcomed the new Democratic Members to the House Judiciary Committee and announced subcommittee assignments for Democratic Members for the 117th Congress. The three new Members who joined the Democratic Majority on the Committee are Representatives Mondaire Jones (NY-17), Deborah Ross (NC-2), and Cori Bush (MO-1).The Full Committee has scheduled its organizational meeting tomorrow at 2 pm in order to ratify Democratic and Republican subcommittee assignments and approve the Committee Rules for the Congress.

“I am proud to welcome our new Members to the House Committee on the Judiciary for the 117th Congress,” said Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). “In this Congress, our Committee will be at the forefrontof some of the most important and complex issues facing this country. I am confident that our Members—both returning and new —are ready to meet this challenge. I look forward to working with my colleagues and the Biden Administration as set out to restore voting rights, pass gun safety legislation, reform our immigration system, pursue criminal justice and policing reform, restore meaningful antitrust enforcement, preserve an open, ethical, and independent judicial system, and safeguard the civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans, including LGBTQ Americans, and much more.”

The House Judiciary Committee Democratic Structure for the 117th Congress:

  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Chair
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
  • Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-9)
  • Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-4)
  • Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-22)
  • Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37)
  • Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8)
  • Rep. David Cicilline (RI-1)
  • Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15)
  • Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-33)
  • Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)
  • Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7)
  • Rep. Val Demings (FL-10)
  • Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46)
  • Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5)
  • Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29)
  • Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-2)
  • Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-6)
  • Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-9)
  • Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-4)
  • Rep. Veronica Escobar (TX-16)
  • Rep. Mondaire Jones (NY-17)
  • Rep. Deborah Ross (NC-2)
  • Rep. Cori Bush (MO-1)

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law:

  • Rep. Cicilline (Chair)
  • Rep. Neguse
  • Rep. Swalwell
  • Rep. Jones
  • Rep. Deutch
  • Rep. Jeffries
  • Rep. Raskin
  • Rep. Jayapal
  • Rep. Demings
  • Rep. Scanlon
  • Rep. McBath
  • Rep. Dean
  • Rep. Johnson

Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties:

  • Rep. Cohen (Chair)
  • Rep. Raskin
  • Rep. Ross
  • Rep. Johnson
  • Rep. Garcia
  • Rep. Bush
  • Rep. Jackson Lee

Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet:

  • Rep. Johnson (Chair)
  • Rep. Deutch
  • Rep. Jeffries
  • Rep. Lieu
  • Rep. Stanton
  • Rep. Lofgren
  • Rep. Cohen
  • Rep. Bass
  • Rep. Swalwell
  • Rep. Jones
  • Rep. Ross
  • Rep. Neguse

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security:

  • Rep. Jackson Lee (Chair)
  • Rep. Bass
  • Rep. Demings
  • Rep. McBath
  • Rep. Dean
  • Rep. Scanlon
  • Rep. Bush
  • Rep. Cicilline
  • Rep. Lieu
  • Rep. Correa
  • Rep. Escobar
  • Rep. Cohen

Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship:

  • Rep. Lofgren (Chair)
  • Rep. Jayapal
  • Rep. Correa
  • Rep. Garcia
  • Rep. Escobar
  • Rep. Jackson Lee
  • Rep. Neguse
  • Rep. Scanlon

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