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Committee Members
Leahy (D-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Kohl (D-WI)
Hatch (R-UT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Grassley (R-NE)
Feingold (D-WI)
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The Witness List
American Bar Association Witnesses
- Kim Askew, Chair of the Standing Committee
- Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer
Majority Witnesses
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
- Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
- David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
- Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
- Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
- Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York County, New York
- Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
- Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York Sixteenth District
- Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
- Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Minority Witnesses
- Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
- Sandy Froman, Esq., former President, National Rifle Association of America
- Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
- Tim Jefires, Founder, P7 Enterprises
- Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
- John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
- Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Saftey and Health)
- David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
- Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
- Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
- Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life
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