Press Releases
January 12, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced the creation of a Task Force on Executive Overreach to examine the historic breakdown of the separation of powers and checks and balances that has led to the unprecedented increase in presidential power and executive overreach. The House Judiciary Committee plans to mark up a resolution to
January 12, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Today we consider H.R.
January 12, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: I want to thank the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Jackson Lee, for introducing H.R. 4240.
H.R. 4240, the No Fly for Foreign Fighters Act, is a common sense bill that requires the U.S.
January 11, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today sent letters to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson urging them to send the message that our laws will be enforced to the surge of minors and families making the dangerous journey to the United States.
Earlier this month, Secretary Johnson announced t
January 8, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: I rise today in support of a bill that combines two important reforms, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act and the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act or the FACT Act.
January 8, 2016
Washington, D.C—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) released the following statement upon the passage of the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015 (H.R
January 8, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, January 12th at 8:30 a.m., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) will join The Atlantic’s Washington Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons for a discussion on the Committee’s bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative. The House Judiciary Committee has already approved numerous bills to reform federal s
January 8, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the arrest of two refugees from Iraq for allegedly attempting to provide material support to ISIS and for lying to U.S.
January 8, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of January 11-15, 2016, including the markup of two criminal justice reform bills.
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January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act (H.R.