United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of eight subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Jurisdiction
From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:
- (1) Amendments to the United States Constitution
- (2) Civil rights oversight
- (3) Property rights
- (4) Federal-state relations
- (5) Individual rights
- (6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
- (7) Interstate compacts
Members, 118th Congress
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Historical subcommittee rosters
117th Congress
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See also
References
- ^ https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/subcommittees
External links
- Senate Judiciary Committee website, Subcommittee page
- Govtrack.us site on subcommittee
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Current United States Senate Judiciary subcommittees
- Bankruptcy and the Courts
- Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights
- Constitution
- Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism
- Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights
- Human Rights and the Law
- Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety
- Intellectual Property
- Privacy, Technology and the Law
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