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April 24, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today pressed the Department of Homeland Security for additional information about El Medhi Semlali Fathi who, before his recent arrest, the FBI alleges to have been planning a bomb attack on a school and a federal building. 

April 23, 2014

Washington, D.C. – The Justice Department today announced broad new criteria for federal drug offenders to receive clemency.

April 22, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after a February 28th memo from John Lafferty, the chief of the Asylum Division at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was leaked to press late last week.

April 11, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and several other members of the House Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Jeh Johnson requesting additional information on criminal aliens identified by Secure Communities and released into communities across the United St

April 10, 2014

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved a bill (S. 2195) by unanimous consent to prohibit terrorists from coming to the United States as ambassadors to the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York City.

April 8, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the decision made by political appointees at the U.S.

April 8, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today criticized Attorney General Eric Holder for not investigating the leak to the Wall Street Journal in January 2014 that the U.S.

April 8, 2014

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 4323) by voice vote.