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Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today introduced the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016 (H.R. 5063) to stop the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “pattern or practice” of systematically subverting Congress’s budget authority by using settlements from financial institutions to funnel money to left-wing activist groups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5bw3WEzsZM Washington, D.C.  – Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) spoke at the World Intellectual Property Day event hosted by the U.S. Copyright Office and the Copyright Alliance.  Below are his remarks as delivered via video: Chairman Goodlatte: “Thank you for the opportunity to give remarks at today’s event.

Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 4:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice will hold a hearing titled, “Oversight of the False Claims Act.” The hearing will examine the False Claims Act, which is one of the government’s principal anti-fraud laws that has proven to be effective at recovering taxpayer money lost as a result of fraud against the federal government.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of April 25-29, 2016. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2710:00 a.m. | Full Committee Markup

• H.R. __, the “Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016” (Rep.

Members of the working group met this week to discuss the path forwardWashington, D.C.  – The bipartisan encryption working group – announced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.

These bills are one component of the Committee’s efforts to combat the opioid epidemicWashington, D.C.  – The House Judiciary Committee today approved two bills to curtail international drug trafficking into the United States and protect classified information pertaining to drug kingpins. First, the Committee approved by a voice vote the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015 (H.R. 3380) to combat drug trafficking and the importation of chemicals used to make illicit drugs in the United States.

Chairman Goodlatte: Nearly 21 years ago, the President issued an Executive Order to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to our national security, foreign policy, and economy posed by narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia.  The actions of these narcotics traffickers produced an extreme level of violence, corruption and harm in the United States and abroad. The following year, the U.S.

Chairman Goodlatte: Today we consider H.R.