Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent the following response to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker after receiving a letter this afternoon from the Department of Justice in which Mr. Whitaker threatened to withdraw from tomorrow's public hearing.
A copy of the response can be found below and here:
February 7, 2019
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Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement during the hearing entitled, “Preventing Gun Violence: A Call to Action”:
“The epidemic of gun violence in this country is a national crisis and an international embarrassment. In 2017, nearly 40,000 Americans lost their lives because of guns. In fact, every day… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker informing him of the Committee's previously disclosed expectation that Mr. Whitaker will provide full and complete answers to all questions without invoking executive privilege. The letter follows a January 22nd letter Chairman Nadler sent,… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) have led 26 of their House and Senate colleagues in writing letters to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, seeking answers following heat and power outages this week at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
“When I… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on scheduling a markup of a resolution to authorize a subpoena for Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on February 7, 2019:
“For the first two years of the Trump Administration, Congress allowed government witnesses to dodge uncomfortable questions. That era is over. In… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday February 12, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a full committee hearing to conduct oversight of the Trump Administration's family separation policy, finally holding the Administration accountable for the inhumane and callous policy that separated children from their parents at the border.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with Reps. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Gregory W. Meeks, (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), released the following joint statement regarding an agreement reached between the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the New York City… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during the Committee’s hearing on H.R. 1, the “For the People Act of 2019”, which deals with voting rights, campaign finance, lobbying, and government ethics laws.
Below are Chairman Nadler’s remarks, as prepared:
“While the specific question… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held its first full Committee meeting to introduce new Members, adopt Committee Rules of Procedure, appoint Subcommittee Chairs and Ranking Members, and approve the assignment of Members to Subcommittees. Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Ranking Member Doug Collins (R-GA) released the following statements after the Committee’s… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the leading Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, released the following statement on the Trump administration’s plan to force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their immigration cases are pending:
“The Trump administration is on a mission to take apart the… Read more »