The Latest Breaking News from House Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON — A congressional committee held an emergency session Thursday to take up a package of gun violence prevention bills, likely setting up votes on the House floor next week.

‘I’m at my house. I can do whatever I want with my guns,’ Florida lawmaker says

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee announced a rare recess week markup for Thursday, with Democrats intent on advancing a bill with a suite of gun control proposals that they have floated in recent years.

The House Judiciary Committee announced a Thursday vote on a bill with a suite of gun control proposals that Democrats have floated in recent years.

The package would ban the import, sale, manufacture, transfer or possession of large capacity magazines.

Last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion access featured, shall we say, some interesting moments. Such as Catherine Glenn Foster, president of Americans United for Life, testifying that aborted fetuses help power streetlights in Washington, and Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina trying to create a gotcha moment…

Her remarks come as a final Supreme Court decision may result in the overturning of ‘Roe v Wade’

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee contemplated the overturning of Roe v. Wade at a hearing Wednesday, where doctors testified about the potential for prosecution of miscarriages, one House member told an unusually personal story of her pregnancies and Republicans called for the end of “abortion on demand.”

The hearing offered a preview of the explosive debates in Congress and statehouses if the justices overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.