Press Releases
July 18, 2017
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Agricultural Guestworkers: Meeting the Growing Needs of American Agriculture.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMgnr2Cxwjg
The current agricultural guestworker program, known as the H-2A program, is costly, time-consuming, and flawed.
July 17, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.J.Res. 76, an interstate compact dealing with the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.
July 17, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.J.Res. 92, dealing with the Washington-area transit system. H.J. Res 92 passed the House by a vote of 402-0.
Chairman Goodlatte: House Joint Resolution 92, introduced by my Virginia colleague, Rep.
July 14, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of July 17-21, 2017.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 192:00 p.m.
July 13, 2017
Chairman Goodlatte: When I became Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I placed a priority on reducing litigation abuse wherever it occurred. As the Committee that oversees our nation’s federal judicial system, the Judiciary Committee must fight all abuses of our nation’s judicial system whether abuse occurs in the patent system or elsewhere.
July 12, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by voice vote the Empowering Law Enforcement to Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act (H.R. 2480).
July 12, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Empowering Law Enforcement to Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act (H.R. 2480).
Chairman Goodlatte: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Today, Mr. Speaker, we continue our battle against the scourge of human trafficking with H.R. 2480, the Empowering Law Enforcement to Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act.
July 12, 2017
Washington, D.C. -- Today the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 469, the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017, by a vote of 15-8.
July 12, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill by voice vote to combat our nation’s synthetic drug epidemic, the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017 (H.R. 2851).
Goodlatte Statement at Markup of the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act
July 12, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017 (H.R. 2851).