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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Judiciary Committee Republicans today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein calling for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate unaddressed matters, some connected to the 2016 election and others, including many actions taken by Obama Administration officials like Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has been and continues to be a champion of free and open markets. An open marketplace cultivates competition among sellers and is the very foundation of maintaining lower prices, higher quality products and services, and superior innovation. The antitrust laws established in this country serve a valuable role in promoting competition, and the Judiciary Committee routinely exercises its oversight authority to ensure that these laws are applied in a manner that is transparent, fair, predictable, and reasonably stable over time. One area of essential antitrust oversight is the health care industry.

Chairman Goodlatte: March 2, 1995, was a pivotal day in the history of our country.  On that day, the U.S.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 19-11 legislation to reform the asylum system. The Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act (H.R. 391), originally introduced by Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and now sponsored by Representative Mike Johnson (R-La.), makes a number of improvements to our nation’s laws to prevent fraud and abuse in the asylum system and ensure that it is reserved for those truly fleeing persecution in their home countries.

Washington, D.C. -- On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 1:00 p.m., the Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine antitrust concerns with the Food and Drug Administration processes to approve new drugs. This hearing will continue the Subcommittee’s investigation of competition in the healthcare sector and will explore potential antitrust concerns with the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), citizen petitions, the Unapproved Drug Initiative, and “Pay-for-Delay” settlements. The witnesses for the hearing include: Panel I:

Washington, D.C. -- On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a full committee hearing on the need for a Constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget. The federal budget deficit and the national debt have become two of America’s most persistent political issues. Recently, due to the federal government’s habitual failure to balance the budget that has produced a gross federal debt of nearly $20 trillion, efforts to secure a constitutional rule to require a balanced federal budget have intensified.

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 Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act (H.R. 391). Chairman Goodlatte: Many of the actions the Obama Administration took regarding immigration policy were based on a lack of respect for our nation’s immigration laws themselves, and represented abuses of the discretion provided to the Executive by the Constitution and Congress. One of the immigration programs the last administration most abused was the U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today issued the following statement on the announcement from the Department of Justice that state and local governments obtaining federal law enforcement grant funding must comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts: “I applaud Attorney General Sessions for his commitment to combating dangerous sanctuary policies that needlessly jeopardize innocent lives. We are all too familiar with how these reckless policies have devastated families across the United States and today’s action by the Department of Justice is a good first step.