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REPUBLICAN MEMBERS:

Orrin Hatch, UT--Chairman

Strom Thurmond, SC
Alan Simpson, WY
Charles Grassley, IA
Arlen Specter, PA
Henry Brown, CO
Fred Thompson, TN
Jon Kyl, AZ
Mike DeWine, OH
Spence Abraham, MI

DEMOCRAT MEMBERS:

Joe Biden, DE--Ranking minority member

Ted Kennedy, MA
Pat Leahy, VT
Howell Heflin, AL
Paul Simon, IL
Herb Kohl, WI
Diane Feinstein, CA
Russell Feingold, WI

DESCRIPTION

The Committee on the Judiciary deals with:

1. Apportionment of Representatives.
2. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
3. Civil liberties.
4. Constitutional amendments.
5. Federal courts and judges.
6. Government information.
7. Holidays and celebrations.
8. Immigration and naturalization.
9. Interstate compacts generally.
10. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally.
11. Local courts in the territories and possessions.
12. Measures relating to claims against the United States.
13. National penitentiaries.
14. Patent Office.
15. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
16. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
17. Revision and codification of the statutes of the United States.
18. State and territorial boundary lines.

SUBCOMMITTEES

ANTITRUST, BUSINESS RIGHTS AND COMPETITION
IMMIGRATION
ADMINISTRATIVE OVERSIGHT AND THE COURTS
TERRORISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
CONSTITUTION, FEDERALISM, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
YOUTH VIOLENCE