Press Releases
June 27, 2016
Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released a statement following the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt:
Chairman Goodlatte: “Every human life is sacred and precious, and should be protected from the horrors of abortion.
June 27, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today raised concerns about Obama Administration efforts to relinquish stewardship of key internet functions in light of unanswered legal, constitutional and human rights questions. Other concerns include whether such a transition
June 24, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mimi Walters (CA-45) recently introduced the Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016, H.R. 5578, along with Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) and 20 original cosponsors.
June 23, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of United States v. Texas:
“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively ends President Obama’s unilateral rewrite of our nation’s immigration laws for the remainder of the Obama Administration.
June 22, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.
June 22, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: It’s clear that our founders believed that the free expression of ideas was integral to the wellbeing of our nation.
June 22, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The Constitution sets forth a system of checks and balances which grants each branch of government tools to ensure that no one branch of government attains too much power. The legislative branch’s tools include the power to write the laws, the power of the purse, the impeachment power, and the power to censure, among others. These tools empower
June 21, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has learned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) significantly underreported the criminal convictions of aliens who the agency released in Fiscal Year 2014.
June 17, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of June 20-24, 2016. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeHearing on
June 16, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at 1:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice will hold a legislative hearing on H.R.