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Chairman Goodlatte: The modern federal administrative state is an institution unforeseen by the Framers of our Constitution and rapidly mushrooming out of control. The “Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016” takes square aim at one of the biggest roots of this problem – the Chevron doctrine, under which federal courts regularly defer to regulatory agencies’ self-serving interpretations of the statutes they administer.  Similarly, the bill takes on the related Auer doctrine, under which courts defer to agencies’ interpretations of their own regulations. In perhaps the most famous of the Supreme Court’s early decisions, Marbury v.

Chairman Goodlatte: The Judiciary Committee routinely exercises its oversight authority to ensure that our nation’s antitrust laws are applied in a manner that is transparent, fair, predictable, and reasonably stable over time.  A natural extension of this oversight is ensuring that our nation’s companies and citizens receive comparable treatment in foreign jurisdictions. As commerce becomes an increasingly global enterprise, the manner in which antitrust and competition laws are applied to companies and citizens located or engaged in business outside of the United States also grows in importance.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of June 6-10, 2016. TUESDAY, JUNE 74:00 p.m. | Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust LawHearing on: “International Antitrust Enforcement: China and Beyond” Witnesses:

• Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, Federal Trade Commission
• Mr. Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Mr.

Washington, D.C.— On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, at 4:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold a hearing entitled, “International Antitrust Enforcement: China and Beyond.” The hearing will focus on the enforcement of antitrust and competition laws against companies and citizens that engage in the ever-expanding global marketplace. Specifically, the hearing will focus on China’s enforcement of its competition laws and the potential impact of China’s enforcement on other international jurisdictions.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following joint statement on the one year anniversary of the enactment of the USA Freedom Act: “One year has passed since the enactment of the USA Freedom Act and the law is working.

Civil asset forfeiture reform is part of the House Judiciary Committee’s criminal justice reform initiativeWashington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote H.R.

Chairman Goodlatte: In February of 2015, this committee held a hearing on civil asset forfeiture.  In the intervening months, the committee has continuously met with and discussed this issue with reformers, law enforcement agencies, and members and staff in an attempt to find a bill that strikes the proper balance between the need to ensure that criminals do not retain the profits of their crimes and the need to protect Americans’ property rights. The bill the committee is considering today is the product of countless hours of discussions with those groups and it addresses the abuses we learned about during our hearing. I want to thank Crime Subcommittee Chairman Sensenbrenner for i

Chairman Goodlatte: H.R. 3636, the “Oversee Visa Integrity with Stakeholder Advisories Act,” introduced by Mimi Walters, makes a valuable improvement to the O visa program.  It will provide needed transparency while helping to combat fraud. An O-1 visa is a temporary visa for an alien who “has extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics . . . and seeks to enter the United States to continue work in the area of extraordinary ability.”  An O-2 visa is a temporary visa for an alien who “seeks to enter the United States [to] accompany[] and assist[] in the . . .