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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

• H.R. 2947, the “Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2015”: This bill is a product of the Judiciary Committee’s long-standing oversight of U.S.

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 

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. economy – has become plagued with fraud and abuse and poses significant national security concerns. Under the EB-5 program, foreign nationals, as well as their spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21, are eligible to apply for a green card if they invest at least $500,000 in American businesses and create or preserve 10 jobs for U.S.

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.  This would surpass the previous high-mark in 2014 by nearly 30%. These minors, more than two-thirds of whom are be

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 authorized for six months and will study the impact the increase in presidential and executive branch power has had on the abili

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 preserve its authority against presidential encroachment.  The Founders, however, did not anticipate the development

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.