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WATCH: Holder Delivers Epic Smackdown To Issa

The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder had tough words for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) during Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, criticizing the co...

Matt Sledge

House Task Force Could Rethink Drug Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- The House Judiciary Committee created a bipartisan task force Tuesday to investigate whether the federal code over-criminalizes minor offe...

Conservative Rep Emerges As Central Player In Immigration Debate

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Depending on whom you ask, Rep. Bob Goodlatte is either trying to stand in the way of landmark immigration legislation or he illust...

Jon Ward

John Boehner Won't Swallow This Whole

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) looks likely to try to move immigration reform through the House in a few separate bills, rather tha...

Preston Maddock

Subpoenaing Drone Memos Has 'Bipartisan Interest'

HuffingtonPost.com | Preston Maddock | Posted 02.27.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- There is "bipartisan interest" within the House Judiciary Committee in subpoenaing the Justice Department's legal memos that justify the...

Amanda Terkel

Growing Number Of Lawmakers Demand Access To Drone Memo

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is requesting access to the Obama administration's classified opinions that j...

Elise Foley

Republicans Dismiss Pathway To Citizenship As 'Toxic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans insisted on Tuesday that Democrats are showing a lack of willingness to compromise on immigration reform by calling fo...

Jack Brooks, Who Served 42 Years In Congress, Dies

AP | By MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 02.03.2013 | Politics

HOUSTON (AP) — Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted President Richard Nixon's articles of impeachment and supported civil rights bill...

Elise Foley

House Republicans Make Puzzling Accusation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee unleashed its latest attack Friday on the Obama administration for its immigration enforcement: a claim th...

Why Is the Best Attorney General Receiving the Worst Treatment?

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 08.27.2012 | Politics
Rep. John Conyers

Attorney General Holder has made a compelling offer -- one that serves the needs of the investigation, and one that is quite similar to the deal I accepted last Congress.

Laura Bassett

House Advances CIANA, Anti-Abortion Bill, Without Rape Or Incest Exceptions

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.28.2012 | Politics

The House Judiciary Committee voted 20-13 on Tuesday to advance a bill that would make it a crime for anyone but a parent to accompany a young woman o...

GOP Seeks Big Changes In Federal Prison Sentences

NPR | Posted 01.31.2012 | Crime

Every year, federal judges sentence more than 80,000 criminals. Those punishments are supposed to be fair — and predictable. But seven years ago, th...

34 Congress Members Call For NYPD-CIA Probe

AP | Posted 12.21.2011 | New York

WASHINGTON -- More than two dozen members of Congress are calling for investigation into the CIA's relationship with the New York Police Department. ...

Elise Foley

House Republicans Move Forward With Subpoena Effort On Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on the immigration subcommittee voted on Wednesday to authorize a subpoena of the Obama administration over its deport...

D.C. Concealed Weapons Amendment Fails In House Judiciary Committee

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011 | DC

WASHINGTON -- An amendment that would have allowed people with concealed-weapons permits from other states to bring their handguns into the District o...

Radley Balko

House Bill Would Apply U.S. Drug Policy Globally

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.06.2011 | Politics

The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign s...

Solyndra: Will We Learn From Science?

James M. Gentile | Posted 11.27.2011 | Technology
James M. Gentile

The key question that is being missed -- and that should be asked now -- is whether the federal government will approach this failure as politicians or as scientists.

GOP Congressman Calls For Independent Investigator In White House Loan To Failed Solar Firm

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 11.19.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday called for an independent investigator to look into a $528 million loan app...

Obama and Homeland Security Moving Nation in Right Direction on Immigration

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 11.13.2011 | Politics
Rep. Mike Honda

The Obama administration recently announced that immigration enforcement programs will no longer target DREAM Act-eligible youth and other low-priority immigration offenders.

Lamar Smith Misses the Point on Immigration and the Hispanic Electorate

Kristian Ramos | Posted 08.01.2011 | Politics
Kristian Ramos

Polling on immigration reform is incredibly consistent across party lines. Democrats, Republicans and Independents all agree that something must be done to fix our immigration system.

AT&T Wants to Give You an 80s Makeover

Timothy Karr | Posted 07.26.2011 | Technology
Timothy Karr

You might be experiencing a horrible 1980s flashback right about now. No, it's not because legwarmers are in style again. It's because AT&T, that monopoly that once lorded over your rotary phone, has resurfaced with a scheme to rule your mobile phone as well.

Looming Government Shutdown Reveals House Leadership's Fiscal Irresponsibility and Willingness to Put Americans At Risk

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 06.05.2011 | Politics
Rep. John Conyers

Based on their absolute refusal to compromise on the Federal budget, the Tea Party's actions reveal their fiscal irresponsibility and their willingness to put other Americans at risk.

Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rep. John Conyers

We are still saddened today at the senseless loss of life in the Triangle fire. We are still galvanized by the call for workers' rights in its aftermath. But I'm also struck by those who refuse to learn the lessons this tragedy can teach us.

How Many Committees Does it Take to Wage a War on Women?

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Nancy Keenan

Recent and ongoing attacks on women's freedom and privacy by the anti-choice House leadership are so far-reaching and so extreme that they've been dubbed the "War on Women."

A Medical Liability Reform That Will Actually Work

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joanne Doroshow

H.R. 5 imposes cruel measures on the backs of the innocent and injured. How could so many doctors be sued, when almost no one sues and those who do are not suing frivolously?