Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) released the following statement regarding copyright concerns with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) set-top box proposal. “Regardless of whether one supports or opposes the FCC’s efforts to create set-top box alternatives, we have very se

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), today sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the agency’s set-top box proposal. The committee

Director Saldaña to testifyWashington, D.C. – On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing on U.S.

Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a third hearing to examine the allegations of misconduct and articles of impeachment filed against IRS Commissioner J

Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), and Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman, and sponsor of the bill Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) praised the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of the Midnight Rules Relief Act

Chairman Goodlatte: “Midnight regulation” is one of the most vexing problems in Washington’s overreaching regulatory system.  Administration after administration, there is a spike in rulemaking activity during the last year of a president’s term—particularly between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These successive waves of midnight regulation present deeply troubling

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry and learning that the Obama Administration plans to set the refugee ceiling for Fiscal Year 2017 at 110,000 and bring in more Syrian refugees this coming year: “Every year it becomes increasingly clear that our na