Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) today requested the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to expand a… Read more »

On March 31, 2017, three Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary wrote to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ask him about the precise scope of his recusal from any investigation of the Trump campaign, given public comments he had made about the need for “some convictions” to stop “the leakers, in the various agencies.”  Nearly a year… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG), to request an investigation into attempts to weaken the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY),  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued the following statement in response to statements by their respective Republican Chairmen regarding text messages… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on his opposition to another short-term funding bill without a clear solution for addressing DACA recipients, funding community health centers and safety net hospitals, addressing budget caps, or any of the other important issues facing Congress.… Read more »

Recent reports show the Trump Administration and its Republican supporters in Congress working to undermine the Special Counsel’s investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government—including placing the FBI Director under so much pressure to fire his Deputy Director that he threatened to resign, accusing FBI investigators of… Read more »

Today, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler, and Oversight & Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to demand answers on how the Trump White House handles the security clearance process for its staff.  Press reports revealing… Read more »

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10) and CBC Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02) respectively – introduced a resolution to censure President Trump for the racist “shithole” comments he made about Haiti and African countries during a bipartisan January 11,… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks in opposition to Republican legislation putting Congress between women and their doctors. The so-called Born Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act (H.R. 4712) would have Congress set mandatory new standards of medical care for providers if an infant is… Read more »

Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement denouncing the Trump Administration’s decision to reorganize the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to focus on defending health care workers who refuse—because of their personal moral and religious… Read more »