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Chairman Goodlatte: H.R. 5052 is a bill that will require an evaluation of the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Grant Program authorized by H.R. 5046 and a number of complementary bills authorizing grants to address opioid abuse that have been marked up by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Chairman Goodlatte: I would like to begin by thanking Representative Posey and Judiciary Committee Members, David Trott, Ted Deutch, Hank Johnson, and Randy Forbes for introducing this bipartisan legislation. The CAPTIVE Act makes two small, but important changes to section 201 of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to make it easier for U.S.

Chairman Goodlatte: H.R. 5048, the “Good Samaritan Assessment Act of 2016,” was introduced by our colleague Congressman Frank Guinta from New Hampshire.  I thank Mr. Guinta, co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, for his ongoing efforts on this critical issue. H.R.

Chairman Goodlatte: Today we consider H.R.

Chairman Goodlatte: Today we continue with the Committee’s efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.  H.R.

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.