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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) highlighted Breitbart News while telling Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the company’s search engine “overly [uses] conservative news organizations” in its news feeds, offering his remarks in a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai repeatedly denied that the platforms used features and donations to turn out Latino voters in “key states” in 2016, despite the existence of leaked emails from its head of multicultural marketing claiming the contrary.

After Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about reports of Google’s bias against conservatives during Pichai’s hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, Pichai denied any bias, dodged questions, and claimed human employees were unable to manipulate algorithms.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee today at 10:00 a.m. EST to discuss Google’s collection and use of user data.

In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey says that prior to signing a FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, Comey was aware that the dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele was financed by Democrats who opposed President Donald Trump.

James Comey told House investigators that he does not believe firing Robert Mueller would end the Russia probe.

James Comey refused to answer several questions during his closed-door interview with House investigators on Friday, according to a report. 

Former FBI Director James Comey filed a lawsuit in a federal court challenging a subpoena issued by Republican investigators as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s probe into political bias at the FBI. 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on December 5 about political bias against conservatives and the company’s operations in China — including the censored search app “Project Dragonfly.”

Incoming House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) plans to launch an investigation into the rise of “white nationalism” in the United States when Democrats take over the House of Representatives next year.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, stated that the transcript of former FBI Director James Comey’s interview before the committee “will be made public.” Biggs said

Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” political analyst and Daily Beast Washington bureau chief Jackie Kucinich weighed in on Ivanka Trump’s usage of emails as a member of the Trump administration amid the House Judiciary Committee issuing subpoenas for former Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Goodlatte will subpoena Comey and Lynch to appear before lawmakers ahead of House Republicans ceding power to the Democrats next year.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will appear in front of Congress after all, next Wednesday, for a transcribed interview.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Judiciary Committee member Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated he welcomed Republicans on the committee bringing back former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the committee and he welcomes Comey telling “his story

NEW YORK — Social media sensations Diamond and Silk sounded off on the news that Facebook’s stock plunged nearly 20 percent last week, with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally losing about $15 billion in stock shares.

Democrats attempted to a derail a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on social media censorship to discuss alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Representatives from major tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 17.

The House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it will hold a hearing on July 17 regarding Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s censorship practices.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page might be held in contempt of Congress because she rejected a subpoena to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

Bob Goodlatte warned former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that lawmakers would “use all tools” at their disposal to obtain her testimony.

The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok to publicly testify on July 10.

The House on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all Justice Department and FBI documents requested by members of Congress investigating the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by July 7. 

The House is preparing to vote this Thursday on a resolution demanding that the Justice Department hand over requested documents related to the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation, according to Politico.

The House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution on Tuesday demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all requested documents regarding the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation in seven days, or else face potential impeachment or contempt.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte subpoenaed FBI agent Peter Strzok Friday — days after an attorney for the embattled investigator said he would testify voluntarily before Congress. 

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed from the Mueller probe following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages, is ready to testify before Congress.

Fired FBI Director James Comey skipped a Wednesday closed-door Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, where top current and former Intelligence Community officials reviewed conclusions about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Congressional Democrats launched an all-out war against conservative concerns about censorship on social media today, calling the concerns a “conspiracy theory”, even as they defended tech giants’ right to censor content on the basis of political viewpoint.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, arguing that thanks to Facebook and Google’s censorship practices, free speech “is endangered even here in America.”

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Thursday on online censorship “to examine social media filtering and policing practices,” a press release states.

After Trump vented his frustration over the Justice Department’s failure to meet the House Judiciary Committee’s deadline to produce documents from the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server, DOJ leadership unveiled Monday the latest attempt to appease their critics.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) are calling for a second special counsel to investigate potential bias, conflicts of interest, and decisions made by the Justice Department and FBI in 2016 and 2017.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed prosecutors in 2017 to investigate matters Congress referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as growing scandals possibly involved criminal activities. These prosecutors will report directly back to Sessions, who told Fox News on Wednesday night that he will then decide whether a second special prosecutor is necessary to take these matters to court.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called on President Trump to release a four-page memo detailing alleged abuse by senior Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations officials during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page discussed in text messages a “secret society” set up within the Justice Department and the FBI after the 2016 election, according to two House Judiciary Committee members who have seen the latest release of text messages between them.