Press Releases
January 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on President Obama’s executive actions on firearms:
Chairman Goodlatte: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is one of the fundamental principles of our Republic and is not to be infringed. Over the course of President Obama’s tenure in office, his Administration has sought to undermine the Second Amendment on numerous occasions but opposition from the American people and Congress often have stopped his attempts to restrict this constitutional right.
December 23, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), and Rep.
December 23, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below regarding the significant drop in removals for unlawful and criminal aliens in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015. In FY 2015, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted only 235,000 removals, which is down from last fiscal year’s low of 315,000 removals.
December 19, 2015
***Update: Following up on Chairman Goodlatte’s statement from Saturday (12/19/15) regarding Tashfeen Malik’s immigration file, please find a copy of Malik’s K-1 Visa application here.**Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after reviewing Tashfeen Malik’s immigration file:
Chairman Goodlatte: “After reviewing Tashfeen Malik’s immigration file, it is clear that immigration officials did not thoroughly vet her application.
December 18, 2015
Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) issued the following statement upon passage of the omnibus legislation, which includes a provision to renew the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund:
“Today’s passage of a fully-funded 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) will ensure that those who suffered terrible loss as a result of the 9/11 attacks receive compensation for their losses. What’s more, the money used to reauthorize the VCF appropriately comes primarily from assets seized from state sponsors of terrorism and not from U.S.
December 18, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) issued the following statement on bipartisan, bicameral efforts to reform the EB-5 investor visa program:
“We are disappointed that the omnibus appropriations bill did not contain bipartisan, bicameral reforms to the EB-5 investor visa program. For months, we have worked with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Leahy to address concerns about rampant fraud and abuse in this visa program.
December 18, 2015
Washington, DC – Today Congressmen Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the House co-chairs of the Congressional International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus, issued the following statement in support of the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) efforts to identify areas of concern in its 2015 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.
“These notorious markets exemplify global counterfeiting and piracy concerns and cause significant economic harm to U.S. intellectual property rights holders.
December 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below on the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border.
December 14, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced that the House Judiciary Committee is working on legislation to reform visa security processing, including K-1 visas, and ensure that open source information is reviewed as part of the background check for visa applicants:
December 11, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Mr. Speaker, time is short. A temporary ban on state taxation of Internet access is expiring. Section 922 of the Conference Report aids taxpayers by making this ban permanent.
If the ban on Internet access taxes is not renewed, the potential tax burden on Americans would be substantial. It is estimated that Internet access tax rates could be more than twice the average rate of all other goods and services. Low-income households could pay ten times as much as high-income households, as a share of income.
Congress has passed numerous temporary bans with enormous bipartisan support.