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October 24, 2013

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) have obtained an internal Department of Homeland Security draft final regulation prepared by the Obama Administration that would lift the longstanding prohibition on Libyans to come to the U.S.

October 24, 2013

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today released the statement below following new NSA intelligence gathering allegations and the introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill authored by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.).

October 23, 2013

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), along with House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) and Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Rep.

October 14, 2013

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below following today’s announcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) that senior Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Liby, who was apprehended in Libya earlier this month, has arrived in the United States to stand trial in federal court for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa.

September 18, 2013
Chairman Goodlatte: I am pleased to be here today at this hearing on Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).  When I became Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in January of this year, I said that this Committee would play an active role in advancing an agenda to restore economic prosperity and fiscal responsibility to America.
September 18, 2013

Washington, D.C. – Today the House Judiciary Committee released basic principles pertaining to the issue of Internet sales tax. To develop these principles, the Committee received input directly from taxpayers, industry and trade groups, and representatives of state and local governments.

September 18, 2013

Washington, D.C. – Following today’s classified hearing on the Administration’s use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the statement below.

September 18, 2013

Washington, D.C.: Today Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement in honor of Constitution Day which was first observed in 2005.

September 17, 2013

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Howard Coble (R-N.C.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Mel Watt (D-N.C.), and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) today applauded the National Tele

September 17, 2013

Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday at 2:00 p.m., the Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the role of voluntary agreements in our intellectual property system.