U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

House feels the heat on immigration reform

2013-05-22 17:07:00

WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...

White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists

2013-05-15 18:46:00

WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....

Holder pledges to probe IRS handling of conservative groups

2013-05-15 14:06:00

WASHINGTON – Testifying on Capitol Hill, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. promised a thorough criminal investigation of the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS that will look at potential civil rights violations and false statements that...

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists

2013-05-13 21:33:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...

Key lawmaker: House will be 'more thoughtful' on Internet sales tax

2013-05-07 09:19:00

WASHINGTON -- A key House committee chairman said his panel would take a "more thoughtful" approach to legislation allowing states to force retailers to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. His comments signaled that momentum from Monday's easy...

House Speaker Boehner unlikely to support Internet sales tax bill

2013-05-07 17:52:00

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner said he probably won't support legislation allowing states to require that larger retailers collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. And a key House committee chairman said his panel would take a...

Senate OKs Internet sales tax

2013-05-07 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — The Senate gave strong bipartisan approval to landmark legislation that could largely lead to the end of the nation's decades-long Internet sales tax holiday. Now the issue shifts to the more skeptical, Republican-controlled House,...

Charlotte, N.C., mayor expected to be nominated for Cabinet

2013-04-28 18:54:00

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of Transportation on Monday, a White House official said. If confirmed, Foxx would take charge of a department that has been in the spotlight of late...

House Republicans offer piecemeal approach on immigration

2013-04-25 18:59:00

WASHINGTON — House Republicans announced the first in a series of immigration-related bills that would attempt to reshape the system one piece at a time, a contrast with the comprehensive approach the Senate is pursuing. The chairman of the...

Cyber security run amok

2013-03-28 00:00:00

Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the early days of the Internet to crack down on malicious hackers, but federal prosecutors have stretched the law since then to apply to computer users who merely violated a website's terms of service....

Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws

2013-03-19 12:03:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...

Republican lawmaker: Obama should back off immigration reform

2013-02-27 12:52:00

WASHINGTON -- With President Obama making immigration reform a top priority, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has just one bit of advice: Stay away. Rep. Robert Goodlatte, a conservative immigration lawyer from Virginia, said...

US Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.

2013-05-15 12:48:29

Atty Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies during a combative hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Tighe Barry, a member of the peace movement Code Pink, waves a T-shirt urging the shutdown of Guantanamo Bay as Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. prepares to testify to the House Judiciary Committee on several issues.

2013-05-15 00:00:00