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Federal Legislation Committee

Overview

This is no longer an active committee of the New York City Bar Association
Reports
- Letter to Congress on H.R. 157, H.R. 665 and S. 160 which would extend voting rights to Representatives from the District of Columbia (August 2010) (September 01, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Letter to Congress regarding S 2977/HR 4556 which would terminate Department of Justice funding intended to further the prosecution of non-citizen suspected terrorists in an Article III court of the US that could potentially be prosecuted by a military commission (February 28, 2010) PDF
  
  Author(s): International Human Rights Committee Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Federal Legislation Committee Council on International Affairs Task Force on National Security & the Rule of Law
  
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- Checks and Balances: Congressional Restriction of Federal Court Jurisdiction (May 01, 2008) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Letter to Congress opposing proposed Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act (S.489/HR1229) (March 01, 2006) PDF
  
  Author(s): Civil Rights Committee Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Letter to Congress urging that the McCain Amendment which seeks to codify and preserve long-established basic standards of treatment for enemy detainees by the United States Government in times of war be included in H.R. 2863, the Fiscal Year 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Conference Report (October 01, 2005) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee Military and Veterans Affairs Committee
  
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- Letter re: S.471, The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (April 01, 2005) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Proposed Amendment to Federal Dilution Statute (March 01, 2005) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Proposed Constitutional Amendment Providing for the Direct Election of the President and Vice President of the United States (December 01, 2004) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- Alternatives to Impeachment: What May Congress Do? (December 09, 1998) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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- The Law of Presidential Impeachments (1974) (January 21, 1974) PDF
  
  Author(s): Federal Legislation Committee
  
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News & Media
- Supreme Court - A Year in Review, 2018 Term - July 17 (June 26, 2019)
- NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION OPPOSES BILL TO LIMIT TERRORISM PROSECUTIONS TO MILITARY TRIBUNALS (March 04, 2010)

Federal Legislation Committee

This is no longer an active committee of the New York City Bar Association

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Federal Legislation Committee

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