Press Releases
February 4, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee today held a hearing titled, “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?” At
February 4, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 10:15 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine the EB-5 investor visa program, which – while intended to create jobs and inject capital into the U.S.
February 4, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the criminal organizations that control the drug and human smuggling and trafficking business along the border.
More than 152,000 u
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote a resolution authorizing a specialized task force to examine the historic increase in presidential power and executive ov
February 3, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The Constitution grants Congress all legislative powers, leaving the President to execute those laws faithfully, according to the will of the people as expressed through their duly-elected legislative representatives in the House and Senate.
Yet presidents from both parties have for too long stretched their powers beyond the limits intended by our Founding Fathers.
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the Committee’s plan to markup the Email Privacy Act (H.R.
February 3, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Hard-working Americans are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes. Everyday local business owners routinely have lawsuits filed against them based on claims they have no substantive connection to, as a means of forum shopping on the part of the lawyers filing the case.
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and the bill’s sponsor and House Judiciary Committee member Rep.
February 2, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Today’s hearing will look at design protection to determine whether amendments should be made to the law to limit protection for component parts of automobiles.
Chapter 16 of the Patent Act allows an inventor a design patent for any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
However, the chief limitation on the patentabili
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m.