Press Releases
September 20, 2015
Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States would accept ten thousand additional Syrian refugees on top of the 75,000 worldwide refugees the Secretary announced after a consultation, as required by law, bet
September 18, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Millions of people have viewed videos of representatives of the organization Planned Parenthood, which performs some forty percent of all abortions each year. Those videos, recorded undercover, include discussions of instances in which, during the course
September 18, 2015
Washington, D.C.— Today the House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 3504) by a vote of 248-177, 1 Present.
September 18, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), along with other Members of the Judiciary Committee, will hold a roundtable discussion on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM CT on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. The roundtable discussion, which is part of the Committee’s copyright review, will inclu
September 17, 2015
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed H.R.
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Many Filipinos bravely served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II in the Philippine Scouts.
The U.S. Army writes that:
[Early in World War II, General] MacArthur had his entire Army withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula and to Corregidor Island to hold off the [Japanese Army] until the U.S. Navy could bring reinforcements and supplies.
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Since 1920, Disabled American Veterans has been serving American veterans who were wounded in the line of duty. It provides free assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining federal benefits and services earned through military service. It represents the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses and their orphans bef
September 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Judicial Redress Act of 2015 (H.R. 1428) by voice vote.
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Conyers for introducing this important, bi-partisan legislation to help ensure that the flow of law enforcement information between the European Union and the United States continues unimpeded.
In recent years, several broad and highly publicized leaks of classified U.S.
September 17, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: H.R.