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Proudly working to protect and defend the safety, privacy, consumer rights, civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans. Ranking Member ⚖

Washington, D.C.
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    Dec 25

    Another tragic death in CBP custody just reinforces the need for the IG to investigate conditions in CBP’s short-term holding facilities, and of course the general suitability of such facilities for families, given that Border Patrol stations were never designed to hold children.

    BREAKING: 8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies of unknown causes in custody of US Customs and Border Protection on Christmas, the agency says.
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    Dec 20

    “Every dollar we spend on incarceration actually makes us less safe.” - on criminal justice reform and the

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    Dec 20

    Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Speaks at the House Judiciary Committee and questions of the Department of Homeland Security

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    Dec 20

    The provides retroactive relief to thousands of Americans harshly treated by unjust crack-cocaine laws

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    Dec 20

    Proud to join my House colleagues following passage of the First Step Act, bringing important reforms to our criminal justice system.

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    Dec 20

    Further, my office is still waiting for a response from Acting AG Whitaker to my previous letters, and we have not received anything from regarding Mr. Whitaker’s announcement that he will not recuse himself from overseeing the Special Counsel investigation.

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    Dec 20

    Read my statement on acting AG Whitaker’s refusal to recuse himself from overseeing the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, despite numerous objections from senior ethics officials:

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    Dec 20

    BREAKING: House just passed historic bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation, 358 - 36. This bill strikes a serious blow against the mass incarceration epidemic in America

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  9. Dec 20

    READ: RM floor statement in support of the First Step Act.

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    Dec 20

    Watch my opening statement from today's Oversight Hearing with :

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    Dec 18

    (3)...system. I along with the Judiciary Committee look forward to working on that bill now in the House.

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    Dec 18

    (2)...grateful that our work will help many, many families, and I am pleased this legislation includes my amendment to include a committee to oversee the progress of prison reform.. This legislation now is substantial progress towards fair treatment in the criminal justice...

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    Dec 18

    I applaud and Chrmn who worked with a number of us in to insist that the prison bill that passed in the House be substantially modified to include important reduction provisions which include retroactivity. I am...

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    Dec 19

    The School Safety Commission report includes dangerous recommendations that would make schools less safe and exacerbate discrimination in our educational system. It is shameful that refuses to recognize the role easily accessible firearms play in school shootings.

    Trump administration releases school safety report, but demands of Parkland activists largely unaddressed.
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    Dec 19

    The is an important bill that will advance criminal justice reform, making critical changes to our sentencing laws to reduce the impact of some mandatory minimum sentences among other improvements. I applaud for their work on this leg.

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    Dec 19

    Stories like this are piling up and suggest a really disturbing pattern. These one-off excuses are not convincing. We will look into these privacy violations in the new Congress.

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    Dec 14

    This ruling will be challenged, it will be heard on appeal, and based on any and all common sense understandings of the law and our constitution that appeal will succeed in overturning this unfortunate decision.

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    Dec 14

    A federal judge in Texas has ruled to strike down the Affordable Care Act, including pre-existing conditions. Trump and said they would never let that happen, but that was never the truth. This will not stand, and we will fight to !

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  19. Dec 12

    📺Tune in live: Chair & Assistant AG will testify before the committee for a hearing on oversight of antitrust enforcement agencies at 2 P.M. E.T. Watch

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  20. Dec 12

    Committee Democrats questioned about how Google is responding to foreign disinformation campaigns and threats to democracy, addressing racist threats and hate speech, and managing consumer data & privacy.

    Yesterday, CEO testified before the committee. : “No credible evidence supports the conspiracy theory that online platforms have an anti-conservative bias. Out of context statements won't make it true."
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