The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
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September 25, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced the following hearings for next week.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2911:30 a.m. - Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil JusticeHearing on: H.R. ___, the “Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act of 2015”
Witnesses:
- Ms. Elizabeth Milito, Senior Executive Counsel, NFIB Small Business Legal Center
- Mr. Cary Silverman, Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Mr.
September 18, 2015
Washington, D.C.— Today the House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 3504) by a vote of 248-177, 1 Present.
September 18, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Millions of people have viewed videos of representatives of the organization Planned Parenthood, which performs some forty percent of all abortions each year. Those videos, recorded undercover, include discussions of instances in which, during the course of an attempted abortion, a baby is born “intact.”
As one doctor caught on tape said, “Sometimes … if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then they [the babies] are intact.&n
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: H.R.
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Conyers for introducing this important, bi-partisan legislation to help ensure that the flow of law enforcement information between the European Union and the United States continues unimpeded.
In recent years, several broad and highly publicized leaks of classified U.S. intelligence information have eroded the global public’s trust in the United States government and our technology sector. As a result, both the federal government and U.S.
September 17, 2015
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 758, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA) by a vote of 241-185. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chief sponsor of LARA, praised the House’s approval of the legislation that will reduce frivolous lawsuits in the United States.
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2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
July 8, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act (H.R. 2329) by voice vote.
July 7, 2015
Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, July 9, 2015, at 2:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice will hold a hearing on the state of property rights in the United States on the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Kelo v. City of New London.