Press Releases
February 10, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The murder of a 19-year-old in Massachusetts by at least two teens with suspected ties to the MS-13 gang has prompted questions about how the suspects entered the country. Seventeen-year-olds Jose Vasquez Ardon and Cristian Nunez-Flores are charged with the murder.
February 9, 2016
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February 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced a markup for Thursday, February 11, 2016 and revised its schedule, including time changes for two hearings, for the week of February 8-12, 2016.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1110:00 a.m. | Full Committee Markup
February 4, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee today held a hearing titled, “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?” At the hearing, members examined and heard from various witnesses on the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border and the Administration’s
February 4, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 10:15 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine the EB-5 investor visa program, which – while intended to create jobs and inject capital into the U.S.
February 4, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the criminal organizations that control the drug and human smuggling and trafficking business along the border.
More than 152,000 unaccompanied minors and families are projected to illegally cross our southwest border this year. Some estimates project the number to top 177,000 – the population of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.&n
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote a resolution authorizing a specialized task force to examine the historic increase in presidential power and executive overreach, which is distorting the fundamental system of checks and balances the framers enshrined in our nation’s founding document, the Constitution.
The Task Force on Executive Overreach is authoriz
February 3, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The Constitution grants Congress all legislative powers, leaving the President to execute those laws faithfully, according to the will of the people as expressed through their duly-elected legislative representatives in the House and Senate.
Yet presidents from both parties have for too long stretched their powers beyond the limits intended by our Founding Fathers. And too often their abuses have gone uncorrected. As law professor David Bernstein has written, “The authors of the Constitution expected that Congress as a whole would be motivated to pr
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the Committee’s plan to markup the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699), a bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986:
“In March, the House Judiciary Committee plans to markup the Email Privacy Act, a bipartisan bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
February 3, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Hard-working Americans are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes. Everyday local business owners routinely have lawsuits filed against them based on claims they have no substantive connection to, as a means of forum shopping on the part of the lawyers filing the case. These lawsuits impose a tremendous burden on small businesses and their employees.