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Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved the Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act of 2016 (H.R. 6431) by voice vote. In March 2015, Canada and the United States signed the Agreement on Land, Rail, Marine, and Air Transport Preclearance. This agreement established an immigration and trade preclearance system in order to strengthen economic competitiveness and national security. Preclearance facilities permit travelers to pass through U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act of 2016 (H.R. 6431). Chairman Goodlatte: “Today we consider on suspension, H.R.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Kevin and Avonte’s Law of 2016 (H.R.

Washington, D.C. —House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement upon the House’s passage of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act (H.R. 6130) by voice vote.

“The Holocaust was one of the darkest times in human history, and so many lost so much as a result of those horrific actions.

Chairman Goodlatte: From 1933, when Hitler took power in Germany, until 1945, when the Allied Forces liberated Europe, the Nazis and their collaborators stole countless works of art and cultural objects from museums and private collections throughout Europe. Indeed, according to the American Alliance of Museums, “the Nazi regime orchestrated a system of theft, confiscation, coercive transfer, looting, pillage, and destruction of objects of art and other cultural property in Europe on a massive and unprecedented scale.  Millions of such objects were unlawfully and often f

Washington, D.C. – Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) today introduced Justice for Child Victims Act of 2016 (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on the Obama Administration to declassify its plan to admit into the United States potentially over 2,400 refugees who Australia has refused to admit. Last month, Chairmen Goodlatte and Grassley expressed concern that the Obama Administration’s secret negotiations with Austra