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Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers released the following statement in response to the President's assertion of executive privilege in response to the committee's June 13 subpoena for documents:

The Committee on Homeland Security is currently holding a hearing, "Over-Classification and Pseudo-Classification: Making DHS the Gold Standard for Designating Classified and Sensitive Homeland Security Information." Witnesses will include Mr. J. William Leonard, Director of the Information Security Oversight Office for the National Archives and Record Administration; Mr. Scott Armstrong, Founder of the Information Trust; Ms. Suzanne E.

Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, and Oversight and Government Reform Information Policy Subcommittee Chairman Wm. Lacy Clay today called upon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to explain his role in the Vice President's extraordinary attempt to remove his office from executive branch oversight and the subsequent refusal to comply with procedures to protect classified information in the Office of the Vice President (OVP).

The Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, along with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, chaired by Reps. Gary Ackerman and Brad Sherman respectively, are currently holding a joint hearing, "A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Wal-Mart: Out of Business or Under New Management?" Witnesses will include Mr.

This morning Democrats took to the House floor to discuss recent calls from influential Republican Senators for redeployment in Iraq:

Democratic Caucus Chairman Emanuel:

Today the Oversight Committee released a report entitled More Dollars, Less Sense: Worsening Contracting Trends Under the Bush Administration.

The Foreign Affairs Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Iraq: Is the Escalation Working?" Witnesses will include Major General John Batiste, USA, Retired; Mr. Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Frederick W. Kagan, Resident Scholar

at the American Enterprise Institute.

The Washington Post prints an update on the question of the Vice President's handling of classified information:

Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material

Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post - June 27, 2007