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April 13, 2020
One of the fundamental instincts of policymakers during any crisis is to grow government. Government programs expand, agencies assume new powers, and sometimes whole new agencies emerge as policymakers try to prove that they have acted in face of the crisis. The coronavirus pandemic is no different. This pandemic is a serious public health emergency that demands the attention of federal policymakers.
March 19, 2020
OAN Newsroom Friday, March 13, 2020 A bipartisan House compromise bill, which overhauls the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, now heads to the Senate ahead of a Sunday deadline.
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."