Press Releases
March 18, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of March 21-25, 2016.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2210:15 a.m. | Full Committee Markup
H.R. 4771, the “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2016” (Rep.
March 17, 2016
Washington, D.C.— Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), and House Judiciary Committee member John L. Ratcliffe (R-Texas) today introduced the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (H.R. 4768) to restore accountability to the regulatory process.
March 17, 2016
Authorizes Speaker to file brief in Supreme Court challenging President’s unilateral actions on immigration
March 17, 2016
Floor Statement of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte on H. Res. 639, authorizing the Speaker to appear as amicus curiae on behalf of the House of Representatives in the matter of United States v.
March 16, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 18-9 the Refugee Program Integrity Restoration Act (H.R. 4731). This bill, authored by Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Vice Chairman Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), reforms the refugee program by curbing fraud and strengthening public safety and national security.
March 16, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has a generous refugee program and has provided millions of people fleeing persecution with safe haven. And while we should continue that great tradition, it is clear that our refugee laws are being abused and need to be reformed.
The Refugee Act of 1980 created our current refugee resettlement process, in which the President sets the annual limit for the number of refugees the United States can resettl
March 15, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), along with Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), House Judiciary Committee member John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), will speak on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 1:00 PM EST at the Heritage Foundation’s event entitled, “Should the Chevron Doctrine Be Abandoned or Modified?” Members of the House and Senate will deliver a series of s
March 15, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The Task Force on Executive Overreach today held its second hearing titled “Executive Overreach in Domestic Affairs Part I – Health Care and Immigration.” At the hearing, members heard from several legal experts and examined recent examples of executive overreach in which President Obama has failed to faithfully execute the law, including his failure to constitutionally implement the Affordable Care Act
March 15, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have pressed the Obama Administration for answers about how a previously-deported criminal known to authorities went on to murder five people.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, an unlawful immigrant, allegedly murdered five people last week in Kansas City, Kansas and Montgomery County, Missouri. According to information provided by U.S.