The Latest Breaking News from House Judiciary Committee

Christopher Wray has been a regular donor to Republican candidates throughout his career

WASHINGTON — As the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a federal data privacy bill last week, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee were looking to plug a gap in the law that allows government agencies to conduct broad surveillance without obtaining warrants or subpoenas to do so.

Lawmakers say government purchases of data from private companies violates the Fourth Amendment and are looking to close the gap.

Tuesday's vote in the House is part political strategy in an election-year roll call that will force all lawmakers to go on the record with their views on the high-profile social issue.

HRC director Sarah Warbelow, who identifies as bisexual, corrected Gaetz during a House Judiciary Committee hearing

Catherine Glenn Foster was a Republican witness before Chairman Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee

California Democrat has played a role in multiple impeachments

California Democrat has played a role in multiple impeachments

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday about Aaron Salter Jr who he said had ‘no chance’ against an AR-15

This week’s January 6 committee hearings concern the most serious allegations of presidential wrongdoing since Watergate. They come almost exactly 50 years after the break-in that spawned the scandal leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. And they carry some striking similarities.

House Democrats plan to press forward on voting, starting Wednesday, on a series of gun control proposals, most of which appear to have slim chance to become law amid Republican opposition in the evenly divided Senate.