United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights

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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.

Contents

1 Jurisdiction
2 Members, 110th Congress
3 Contact information
4 See also
5 External links

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

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and the Ranking Minority member is Republican Sam Brownback, of Kansas.

Majority
Member		State
	Russ Feingold, Chairman	Wisconsin
	Ted Kennedy	Massachusetts
	Dianne Feinstein	California
	Dick Durbin	Illinois
	Ben Cardin	Maryland

Minority
Member		State
	Sam Brownback, Ranking Member	Kansas
	Arlen Specter	Pennsylvania
	Lindsey Graham	South Carolina
	John Cornyn	Texas

Senior Subcommittee Staff

Robert F. Schiff, Democratic Chief Counsel
Ajit Pai, Republican Chief Counsel

U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

Senate Judiciary Committee wesbite, Subcommittee page

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