United States House Committee on the Judiciary Totally Explained

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U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, or (more commonly) the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, administrative agencies and Federal law enforcement entities. The Senate version of the committee's most public role involves the approval process of the President's nominees to the Federal benches, including the United States Supreme Court. The Judiciary Committee is also the committee responsible for impeachments of federal officials, and approved articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson in 1868, Richard Nixon in 1974, and Bill Clinton in 1998. In the new 110th Congress the current chairman of the committee is Democrat John Conyers of Michigan, and the ranking minority member is Republican Lamar Smith of Texas.
The committee was created on June 3 1813 for the purpose of considering legislation related to the judicial system. Because of the legal nature of its oversight, committee members usually have a legal background, but it isn't required.

Committee Members, 110th Congress

Majority	Minority
John Conyers, Chairman, Michigan Howard L. Berman, California Rick Boucher, Virginia Jerrold Nadler, New York Robert C. Scott, Virginia Mel Watt, North Carolina Zoe Lofgren, California Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Maxine Waters, California Bill Delahunt, Massachusetts Robert Wexler, Florida Linda T. Sánchez, California Steve Cohen, Tennessee Hank Johnson, Georgia Betty Sutton, Ohio Luis Gutierrez, Illinois Brad Sherman, California Anthony D. Weiner, New York Adam B. Schiff, California Artur Davis, Alabama Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Keith Ellison, Minnesota Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin	Lamar S. Smith, Ranking Member, Texas Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Howard Coble, North Carolina Elton Gallegly, California Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Steve Chabot, Ohio Dan Lungren, California Chris Cannon, Utah Ric Keller, Florida Darrell Issa, California Mike Pence, Indiana Randy Forbes, Virginia Steve King, Iowa Tom Feeney, Florida Trent Franks, Arizona Louie Gohmert, Texas Jim Jordan, Ohio

Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Commercial and Administrative Law	Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA)	Chris Cannon (R-UT)
Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property	Howard L. Berman (D-CA)	Howard Coble (R-NC)
Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security	Robert C. Scott (D-VA)	Randy Forbes (R-VA)
Immigration, Border Security, and Claims	Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)	Steve King (R-IA)
The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties	Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)	Trent Franks (R-AZ)

Committee Task Forces

United States House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force, 110th Congress

Chairman: John Conyers (D-MI)
Ranking Member: Steve Chabot (R-OH)

The Antitrust Task Force was established February 28, 2007, is a temporary subcommittee to examine the pending merger between XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. The task force operates like any other subcommittee, except that it only has a six-month term. House Rules limit each full committee to just five subcommittees, and any task force, special subcommittee, or other subunit of a standing committee that's established for a cumulative period longer than six months in a Congress counts against that total. A longer term for the task force would cause the Judiciary Committee to exceed this limit.

United States House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force, 109th Congress

Chairman: Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Ranking Member: John Conyers (D-MI)

This task force existed from March 26, 2003, to September 26, 2003. All Judiciary Committee Members also served as members of the Task Force., and conducted hearings and investigations into consolidation of the Bell Telephone Companies.

Projects

Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project

Hearings

The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials (hearing)

Chairmen since 1813

Charles J. Ingersoll (R-PA) 1813-1815 Hugh Nelson (R-VA) 1815-1819 John Sergeant (R-PA) 1819-1822 Hugh Nelson (R-VA) 1822-1823 Daniel Webster (F-MA) 1823-1827 Philip P. Barbour (D-VA) 1827-1829 James Buchanan (D-PA) 1829-1831 Warren R. Davis (D-SC) 1831-1833 Thomas F. Foster (W-GA) 1833-1835 Samuel Beardsley (D-NY) 1835-1836 Francis Thomas (D-MD) 1836-1839 John Sergeant (W-PA) 1839-1841 Daniel D. Barnard (W-NY) 1841-1843 William Wilkins (D-PA) 1843-1844 Romulus M. Saunders (D-NC) 1844-1845 George O. Rathbun (D-NY) 1845-1847 Joseph R. Ingersoll (W-PA) 1847-1849	James Thompson (D-PA) 1849-1851 James X. McLanahan (D-PA) 1851-1853 Frederick P. Stanton (D-TN) 1853-1855 George A. Simmons (W/R-NY) 1855-1857 George S. Houston (D-AL) 1857-1859 John Hickman (R-PA) 1859-1863 James F. Wilson (R-IA) 1863-1869 John A. Bingham (R-OH) 1869-1873 Benjamin F. Butler (R-MA) 1873-1875 James P. Knott (D-KY) 1875-1881 Thomas Brackett Reed (R-ME) 1881-1883 John R. Tucker (D-VA) 1883-1887 David B. Culberson (D-TX) 1887-1889 Ezra B. Taylor (R-OH) 1889-1891 David B. Culberson (D-TX) 1891-1895 David B. Henderson (R-IA) 1895-1899 George W. Ray (R-NY) 1899-1903	John J. Jenkins (R-WI) 1903-1909 Richard W. Parker (R-NJ) 1909-1911 Henry De Lamar Clayton (D-AL) 1911-1914 Edwin Y. Webb (D-NC) 1914-1919 Andrew J. Volstead (R-MN) 1919-1923 George S. Graham (R-PA) 1923-1931 Hatton W. Sumners (D-TX) 1931-1947 Earl C. Michener (R-MI) 1947-1949 Emmanuel Celler (D-NY) 1949-1953 Chauncey W. Reed (R-IL) 1953-1955 Emmanuel Celler (D-NY) 1955-1973 Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (D-NJ) 1973-1989 Jack Brooks (D-TX) 1989-1995 Henry J. Hyde (R-IL) 1995-2001 Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) 2001-2007 John Conyers (D-MI) 2007-

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