Press Releases

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. 4919). Chairman Goodlatte: “It is estimated that 60 percent of the 5.3 million individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and 49 percent of children with autism are susceptible to wandering, or leaving safe areas and the protection of a responsible caregiver. “The results of wandering can be devastating to the individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and children with developmental disabilities.

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 forcibly taken from their rightful owners.” This systematic looting and confiscation of the cultural property of the Jew

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 Australia left Americans in the dark about the full scope of its resettlement plans and requested a briefing to review the cla

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today pressed Secretary Jeh Johnson on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) failure to ensure immigration benefits applicants have received full background checks prior to approval of their applications. The House Judiciary Committee received from a confidential source an email that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Associate Director for the Field Operations Directorate sent to agency staff on November 29, 2016.