WASHINGTON, April 4 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: * * * Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap - Week of March 31, 2025 Here's a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week: Appropriations On Tuesday, April 1, the Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies held a Member Day hearing. Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart of the National Security, Department of State, and Related Progra  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution released the following testimony by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway from a March 25, 2025, hearing entitled "The Censorship Industrial Complex": * * * For our Constitutionally protected freedom of speech to mean anything beyond the theoretical, we must actively practice it. President John F. Kennedy said the American people must be entrusted to confront "unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies,  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following news release on April 1, 2025: * * * Hearing Wrap Up: Task Force Examines Newly Declassified JFK Files, Vows More Transparency for the American People WASHINGTON--Today, the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), held a hearing on the JFK files. At the hearing, members underscored the significance  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release: * * * Lawyers' Committee Files Court Brief to Defend Legal Profession and Judicial Branch Civil Rights Advocacy and Pro Bono Legal Assistance Lawyers' Committee Relies on at Risk WASHINGTON, DC -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed an amicus brief in Perkins Coie v. DOJ asking a federal court to block the Trump administration's executive orde  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, issued the following news release on April 1, 2025: * * * Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, today opened the panel's hearing on the JFK Files. She underscored the significance of newly declassified documents related to President John F. Kennedy's   more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, issued the following news release: * * * Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets to Hold Hearing on the JFK Files WASHINGTON-- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, announced today that the panel will hold a hearing on the JFK files. Recently, the Trump Administration released a trov  more