Press Releases
February 3, 2016
Washington, D.C—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and the bill’s sponsor and House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) released the following statements upon House Judiciary Committee approval of the Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act of 2015 (H.R.
February 2, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Today’s hearing will look at design protection to determine whether amendments should be made to the law to limit protection for component parts of automobiles.
Chapter 16 of the Patent Act allows an inventor a design patent for any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
However, the chief limitation on the patentability of designs is that they must be primarily ornamental in character.
If the design is dictated by the performance of the article, then it is judged primarily functional and ineligible for design pat
January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 1-5, 2016.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 210:00 a.m. | Full CommitteeClassified Hearing on: FISA Amendments Act
*This hearing is for Members only.
Witnesses:
- Mr. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Mr.
January 29, 2016
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?” At the hearing, members will examine the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border and the Administration’s lack of vetting of unaccompanied children’s sponsors in the U.S.
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January 28, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), and Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), the author of The Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, today sent a letter to President Obama regarding his unilateral changes to the law allowing certain people who have traveled to nations of terrorism-related concern (i.e.
January 25, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the Associated Press investigation finding that the U.S.
January 21, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after the Obama Administration announced that it will apply the limited law enforcement waiver authority in the Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 to allow entire categories of dual citizens and people who have traveled to Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Sudan to come to the U.S.
January 20, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats rejected the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038):
“It’s inexcusable that Senate Democrats today rejected a commonsense, targeted bill that would protect the American people from a very real threat posed by ISIS. ISIS terrorists have vowed to use the refugee system to enter Western countries and top national security officials within the Obama Administration have repeatedly warned that the U.S.
January 20, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s “Entry/Exit Overstay Report for Fiscal Year 2015”, which looked at only two of the many categories of temporary visitors to the U.S. and found that more than 500,000 temporary visitors overstayed their visas last year:
“It’s estimated that 30 to 40 percent of unlawful immigrants came to the U.S.