Others, like Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sub-committee on Crime and Drugs, have recently complained about what they deem to be inadequate sentencing in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases.
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On this point -- and here I'll fend off the wrath or maybe the scorn of the managers by quoting not a scholar or a professor, but rather a witness called by the majority members of the Judiciary Committee to testify as an expert on the issue of perjury, a witness who had served on the Judiciary Committee in 1974.
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Indeed, legislators showed a desire to tap on the brakes this week, with the House Judiciary Committee postponing action on the bill scheduled for Tuesday.
Schiff also serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Last week I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the need to reform our immigration system so that we recruit and retain the most talented entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world.
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Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, appeared on the CBS program "Face the Nation" to outline concerns over what he called Sotomayor's possible racial bias.
On Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said Holder "was forthright and did not mislead the committee" on May 15.
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In the House Judiciary Committee a panel of distinguished former Federal prosecutors testified that a responsible Federal prosecutor would not have brought a criminal prosecution on the basis of the case set out in the Starr Report on which the House Judiciary Committee relied.
Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hasn't taken a position on the Durbin bill.
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For another, the balance of power on the Judiciary Committee, which will conduct the inquiry, will remain the same in the next Congress, beginning in January, as in the present one.
Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, was one of the first conservatives to publicly connect the bombings to the roiling immigration debate and question whether the attacks would suggest a need to slow down and re-examine immigration reform efforts.
And my sense in talking to the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee and staff aides is that the White House is going to have to produce some of the stuff, but hardly all of it.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday at the first congressional hearing since the scandal erupted.
The 79-year-old Kansas native and former Philadelphia district attorney has been a leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee for much of the past two decades, serving as its chairman from 2005 to 2007.
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She has offered to brief the House and Senate Judiciary Committee chairmen on the memos and her independent counsel decision once it is made.
Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he did not think Republicans would block the nomination with a filibuster.
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He was, she explained in a very convoluted way to the Senate Judiciary Committee, placed on the terrorism watch list, briefly, after the Boston bombing.
On Tuesday, December 1, The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing in Washington on 'The Consequences of Perjury and Related Crimes.
He had never mentioned it before and it was certainly missing from his testimony at two hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee on prosecutions of fraud by major banks during the financial meltdown.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday evening passed a broad measure that aims to reduce the number of patent lawsuits.
Mr Schumer sits on the Senate Judiciary committee, and committee chair Patrick Leahy - a Vermont Democrat - said that the panel would hold hearings in the autumn that would look at promoting competition in the computer and internet industry.
Since there are arguments on each side, neither is likely to change the views of politicians on the House Judiciary Committee.
The GOP memo is dated September 17, 2010, shortly before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (which we legal privacy geeks lovingly refer to as ECPA).
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"I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to uphold equal rights for all and to strike down government decisions based on race, " said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
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Specter serves as the temporary chair of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the measure on Thursday, said Leahy, who is the committee's chairman.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is to begin voting on the legislation next week.
The Assembly judiciary committee will hold a hearing on the bill in mid-April.
I've sat on the Judiciary Committee and worked there, trying to get good ones.
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