WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight after the House passed the Combating International Islamophobia Act: "I'm pleased that the House has passed a bill to combat Islamophobia by creating a special envoy for that purpose at the State Department. I want to thank Rep. Omar, Rep. Schakowsky, and its other sponsors for introducing and championing this legislation. "We have seen a dangerous rise more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following opening statement at a Dec. 8, 2021, hearing entitled "Forfeiting our Rights: The Urgent Need for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform": * * * This important bipartisan hearing will be the first that Congress has held in nearly seven years focused on the need to reform the use of our civil asset forfeiture laws. Civil asset forfeiture is a tool used widely by federal, state, and local more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, along with 19 of his colleagues in the United States House of Representatives, introduced the Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act. The legislation closes a campaign finance loophole that allows for-profit U.S. corporations appreciably owned by foreign investors to pour unlimited cash into American elections. "Six days after the Supreme Court invented corporate free speech more PR