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Immigration, Refugees and Border Security

Jurisdiction:  (1) Immigration, citizenship, and refugee laws; (2) Oversight of the immigration functions of the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Ombudsman Citizenship and Immigration Services; (3) Oversight of the immigration-related functions of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Department of Labor; (4) Oversight of international migration, internally displaced persons, and refugee laws and policy; and (5) Private immigration relief bills.

Membership - 6:4
Democratic Members
 Charles E. Schumer, New York (Chairman)
Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont
Dianne Feinstein, California
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
Member To Be Announced
Republican Members
 John Cornyn, Texas (Ranking Member)
Charles E. Grassley, Iowa
Jon Kyl, Arizona
Jeff Sessions, Alabama

U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Majority Office
Phone: 202-224-8352
Fax: 202-228-2260
 Minority Office
Phone: 202-224-7840

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noteworthy

Did You Know?  Only three U.S. Presidents have not appointed a justice to the Supreme Court.  Thirty-nine Presidents have made a total of 159 nominations to the Supreme Court.  Eleven of those nominations were rejected in Senate roll-call votes, 11 were withdrawn, and 14 lapsed at the end of a Congressional session.  There have been 12 instances when the President has made temporary recess appointments to the Court, without submitting nominations to the Senate.

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