Emancipation was not a 1-day event; it was a promise, a promise written in the blood of all who lived in bondage and all who died to end it.
It's vitally important that we rein in such explosive growth and ask ourselves whether all of these laws and regulations...
We spend $51 billion on a so-called 'war on drugs,' and we even have 700,000 arrests for marijuana law violations.
The explosive growth of the Federal criminal code has played an important role in that.
We incarcerate more people proportionally than any other country on the planet.
I think this is an opportunity to take a long, hard look at the scourge of mandatory minimums.
Intellectual property, principally patents, are responsible for nearly one-third of all the jobs in U.S. economy.
There are few economic issues our Committee will face that are more important than whether and how to reform our patent ...
Material submitted by the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, and Rank...
The Affordable Care Act makes critical reforms to our Nation's health care system and will help millions of uninsured Am...
That is why I introduced H.R. 99, the 'Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2013,' on the very first d...