Committee on the Judiciary

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also known as the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over a wide range of issues related to the administration of justice, including:

Federal courts and judicial procedures
Civil rights and civil liberties
Constitutional amendments
Immigration and nationality
Monopolies and antitrust issues
Crime control and law enforcement
Drug policy

The committee is responsible for considering and reporting legislation related to these areas, as well as conducting oversight of the executive branch and the federal judiciary. The committee also has the authority to impeach federal officials, including the President, and to consider articles of impeachment.

The House Judiciary Committee is chaired by the Speaker of the House or, in the Speaker's absence, the Majority Leader. The ranking minority member is the Minority Leader or, in the Minority Leader's absence, the Minority Whip. The committee is composed of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, with each state represented by at least one member.

Goodlatte, Conyers, Sensenbrenner, Nadler Statement on Implementation of the USA Freedom Act

November 30, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement on the implementation of the USA Freedom Act:

Goodlatte & Ratcliffe Applaud Passage of Bill to Strengthen Local Efforts to Fight Cybercrime

November 30, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by voice vote the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act (H.R. 3490).

House Judiciary Committee Announces Hearing on Electronic Communications Privacy Act

November 24, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine H.R. 699, the Email Privacy Act, a bill authored by Rep.

New Sentencing Reform Video Launched Ahead of House Judiciary Committee Markup

November 18, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee released a new video on the bipartisan Sentencing Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3713).

House Judiciary Committee Approves Bipartisan Sentencing Reform Legislation

November 18, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote bipartisan legislation to reform federal sentencing laws. The Sentencing Reform Act of 2015 (H.R.

Statement of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Markup of H.R. 2830, “A Bill to Make Technical Amendments to Update Statutory References To Certain Provisions Classified to Title 2, U.S. Code”

November 18, 2015

Press Release

Chairman Goodlatte: The Office of the Law Revision Counsel has an ongoing responsibility under section 285b of title 2 of the United States Code to maintain the United States Code and assist the House Judiciary Committee in the revision and codification of Federal statutes. In order to maintain and improve the United States Code, the Office of the Law Revision Counsel must occasionally undertake editorial reclassification projects to reorganize areas of law that have outgrown their original boundaries, or to eliminate organizational units that are no longer efficient.

Statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Markup of H.R. 3713, the “Sentencing Reform Act of 2015”

November 18, 2015

Press Release

Chairman Goodlatte: The legislation the Committee will consider today is the culmination of three years of work on over-criminalization and criminal justice reform. In the 113th Congress, I along with Ranking Member Conyers, established an Over-Criminalization Task Force, which held nine hearings on a variety of topics including over-criminalization, over federalization, sentencing reform, prison reform, and regulatory crime. Building upon the work of the Task Force, the Ranking Member and I launched a Criminal Justice Reform Initiative in June of this year.

House Judiciary Committee Approves Bills to Address Federal Over-Criminalization

November 18, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved four bills to rein in the explosion of federal criminal law, commonly referred to as over-criminalization. First, the Committee approved the Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015 (H.R. 4002) by voice vote, authored by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). This legislation creates a default mens rea standard that applies when federal law does not provide a state of mind requirement.

Markup of H.R. 2830; H.R. 2831; H.R. 2832; H.R. 3713; H.R. 4002; H.R. 4003; H.R. 4001; H.R. 4023

Markup

Date:

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 10:00 AM

Location:

2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

Subcommittees:

Committee on the Judiciary (114th Congress)

House Judiciary Committee Unveils Bills to Address Federal Over-Criminalization

November 17, 2015

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – As part of the House Judiciary Committee’s criminal justice reform initiative, members of the House Judiciary Committee unveiled four bills to rein in the explosion of federal criminal law, commonly referred to as over-criminalization. These bills, along with the Sentencing Reform Act (H.R.

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