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March 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and several other members sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition voicing concerns regarding vertical mergers, specifically in the health care space. In the health care market, several vertical mergers have occurred in the last ten years. These mergers were approved under the guise of providing better care and savings to patients.
March 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee; Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; Martha Roby (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet; and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet introduced the Trademark Modernization (TM) Act of 2020 to address recent significant increases in fraudulent trademark filings. Sens.
March 11, 2020
WASHINGTON—Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, today commended the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block the Ninth Circuit injunction which would have stopped the Trump Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) in California and Arizona.
March 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020, the House’s bipartisan agreement to reauthorize and reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): “In 2016, our nation’s premier law enforcement agency committed a serious injustice when it weaponized its authority to illegally surveil a U.S. citizen for political purposes.
March 5, 2020

"The brave men and women serving our country overseas as part of the military or as civil servants should not have any doubts about their children's citizenship. With the passage of the Citizenship for Children of Military Members and Civil Servants Act, these families will no longer have to worry about enduring mountains of paperwork and jumping through bureaucratic hoops simply because their child was born outside the U.S." 

March 5, 2020

"The First Step Act also embodies the necessary mercy and forgiveness that must accompany any law enforcement regime governing human affairs. . . . As we consider the executive clemency process, I would hope those same sentiments will help guide us." "Congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority to restrict the president’s pardon authority in any significant way, and the Constitution gives the president vast leeway to decide who may receive a pardon and when it may be issued."

March 2, 2020

"Congress must create accountability to prevent these hazardous items from infiltrating the homes of millions of Americans. The SHOP SAFE Act would make families safer by requiring online sellers to help prevent the sale of counterfeit products to consumers."

February 28, 2020

"The fact that Democrats sent these requests just two days after cancelling our FISA markup and putting our national security at risk is further proof that they care about one thing and one thing only: Attempting to take down President Trump."

February 26, 2020

"Democrats are yet again putting our national security at risk with their stall tactics."

February 25, 2020

"In order to restore the American people’s faith in our premier law enforcement agency, we must reform FISA to ensure our intelligence community and FBI are deterred from ever wielding their significant power to spy on American citizens."