Government Oversight

AFTER TRUMP’S HELSINKI DEBACLE, JUDICIARY DEMS USE HOUSE RULES IN EFFORT TO FORCE VOTE TO PROTECT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION

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Today, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s comments in Helsinki, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) demanding a special committee meeting to consider their bipartisan legislati... Read more »

Nadler on Trump Siding with Putin Denying Interference: This is a Catastrophe in the Making

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Today, after President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and subsequent remarks in Helsinki, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) motioned for the House Judiciary Committee to adjourn the current hearing on social media filtering and go into executive session, in order to discuss threats to our electoral process from Russia. Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler... Read more »

Cummings and Nadler Release Statement after Marathon Hearing with Peter Strzok

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Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, released a joint statement after former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testified during a joint Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing for more than 9 hours: “With today’s marathon... Read more »

Statement of Ranking Member Nadler for the Hearing on “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election: Testimony by FBI Deputy Director Peter Strzok”

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election: Testimony by FBI Deputy Director Peter Strzok.” “Mr. Chairman, at the outset of this Congress, when my Democratic colleagues and I asked you to hold hearings about ... Read more »

Cummings and Nadler Call for Release of Full Strzok Transcript

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Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2018)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, called for the release of the full unclassified transcript of the 11-hour, closed-door interview of FBI Agent Peter Strzok, which includes hundreds of questions by Republicans regardin... Read more »

Ranking Member Nadler Statement on Nomination of Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court of the United States

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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Government Oversight

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court: "Yesterday, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Kennedy as an Associate Justice o... Read more »