United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
- United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of seven subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The subcomittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Jurisdiction
From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:
*(1) Constitutional amendments
*(2) Civil rights oversight
*(3) Property rights
*(4) Federal-State relations
*(5) Individual rights
*(6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
*(7) Interstate compacts
=Members, 110th Congress=
The Committee is chaired by Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and the Ranking Minority member is Republican Sam Brownback, of Kansas.
"Senior Subcommittee Staff"
Robert F. Schiff, Democratic Chief Counsel
Ajit Pai, Republican Chief Counsel
Contact information
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
ee also
*United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
External links
* [http://judiciary.senate.gov/subcommittees/110/constitution110.cfm Senate Judiciary Committee wesbite, Subcommittee page]
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