[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 43 (Monday, March 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WORK

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to serve on the Judiciary 
Committee in the House and be the chairman of the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee.
  I want to report to the American people that we passed out H.R. 1 
that helps clean up corruption in our government, makes our government 
more transparent, makes voting easier and open to more people, and does 
other improvements the American people want.
  We also passed out H.R. 8, the first gun reform bill in over 20 years 
that says you have to have background checks on all sales.
  This week, we will be marking up the Violence Against Women Act. 
Hopefully, we will have bipartisan support for that.
  We will also have a hearing on renewing the Voting Rights Act that 
never should have been discarded by the Supreme Court. We will be 
having hearings to get the Voting Rights Act back on the law books in 
the United States.
  And our subcommittee had a hearing last week on the President's 
powers on emergency actions. We have bipartisan agreement that we need 
to reform that bill and will work together in a bipartisan fashion.

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