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The Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing, "The Continuing Investigation into the U.S. Attorneys Controversy and Related Matters." Former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty will testify. Read his opening remarks >>

Watch the hearing live via committee webcast or on C Span 3.

Chairwoman Linda T. Sánchez of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law gives opening remarks:

From the Oversight and Government Reform Committee:

Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information

Washington, D.C. -- The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an "entity within the executive branch."

The Committee on Foreign Affairs is currently hosting the first-ever open meeting between the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Affairs of the Duma, the legislature of the Russian Federation. The joint session will mark the third in the series of meetings between the American and Russian foreign affairs committees, with previous sessions held in Moscow (June 2004) and Washington (November 2005). It is the first such meeting ever to which the media and members of the public will be invited. The gathering will focus on four key themes: democracy and human rights, unresolved regional conflicts, strategic stability and trade and economic issues.

Today the House debated the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. The Act is named in honor of Emmett Till, a teenager who was brutally murdered and mutilated while on a summer vacation in Money, Mississippi in 1955. The act establishes an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and an Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Investigative Office in the Civil Rights Unit of the FBI to investigate violations of criminal civil rights statutes in which the act occurred before January 1, 1970 and resulted in death.

Last week, Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the 44th Anniversary of her husband's death:

From the Judiciary Committee:

Deputy Attorney General to Testify About U.S. Attorney Firings

Washington -- On Thursday, June 21, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL) is scheduled to hear the testimony of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty as part of the House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the Bush Administration's mass firing of U.S. Attorneys.

WHAT: Oversight Hearing, "Hearing on the Continuing Investigation into the U.S. Attorneys Controversy"

WHEN: Thursday, June 21, 2007, 12:00 pm

WHERE: House Judiciary Committee Hearing Room

2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, DC

WHO: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty

From the Education and Labor Committee:

House Labor Committee Approves Bill to Extend Collective Bargaining Rights to Public Safety Workers in all 50 States

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- By an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 42-1, the House Education and Labor Committee today approved legislation to guarantee the rights of firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical service workers in all 50 states to collectively bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

"The brave men and women who risk their lives each day and serve as our first line of defense against medical emergencies, criminals, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks deserve the right to bargain with their employers," said Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the committee.

Once again, the President has ignored the will of the American people, of leading medical researchers, and of a bipartisan majority of the Congress. His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes of million of families across America.

Stem cell research offers the potential of lifesaving treatment and enjoys the overwhelming support of the American people.

Every family in America is just one diagnosis, one phone call, or one accident away from benefiting from embryonic stem cell research. Science has the potential to answer the prayers of America's families; it is irresponsible for the President and many Congressional Republicans to stand in the way of such progress.