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The subcommittee heard testimony on trials involving domestic violence cases, specifically battered wives who are charged with killing or assaulting their husbands. The subcommittee is consi…

House Judiciary Committee members debated the provisions of H.R. 25, the Freedom of Choice Act. Proponents expressed that the bill would simply codify Roe v. Wade, while opponents feared it …

The committee heard testimony from current and former members of the Bush administration in the second of a series of hearings investigating U.S. economic aid to Iraq prior to Iraq’s invasio…

The subcommittee examined the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision that upheld a 1989 opinion of the Justice Department that affirmed the right of the FBI and DEA to kidnap suspec…

The subcommittee heard testimony on legislation that would reauthorize funding for the Justice Department Civil Rights Division. Witnesses included the assistant attorney general for civil r…

House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice heard testimony from doctors, patients and anti-abortion activist about access to abortion clinics.

The Subcommittee heard testimony on the issue of police misconduct. Following the riots that broke out during the previous week after four white police officers in Los Angeles were acquitted…

The House Judiciary Sub-Committee on Civil and Constitutional Rights held a hearing to examine the Freedom of Rights Act. This bill would forbid states to place restrictions on most abortion…

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Economic & Commercial Law held a hearing on Competition policy in the telecommunications Industry. The witnesses discussed the future of the industry, a…

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration held a hearing on Cuban and Haitian refugees. Representatives from the State Department and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service te…

The committee heard testimony on the results of the 1982 federal court decision requiring the giant telephone corporation AT&T to divest its local operating companies and maintain itself onl…

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime & Criminal Justice heard testimonies in another of a series of hearings on the 1991 Crime bill. Specifically, the subcommittee investigated methods …

The subcommittee heard testimony from John Dunne, assistant attorney general for civil rights, on the budget request and performance of the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice…

The Committee heard testimony on police brutality and the Bush Administration’s actions to eliminate the excessive use of force by police authorities. The hearings were held in part because …