Press Releases
September 24, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
America’s voters sent the 114th Congress to Washington to help turn around this Nation’s struggling economy.
September 23, 2015
Washington, D.C.— On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, at 2:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold its second hearing on the state of competition in the health care marketplace entitled, “Healthy Competition?
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, between Kerry and leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to discuss the proposed annual number of refugees the Obama administration planned to admit into the United States.
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 of an attempted abortion, a baby is born “intact.”
As one doctor caught on tape said, “Sometimes … if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then they [the babies] are intact.&n
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 include a wide range of professionals from the music industry.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee are traveling to Nashville to kick-off a multi-city listening tour as part of the Committee’s bipart
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. The Philippine Scouts, side-by-side with U.S. National Guard and Philippine army infantry units, defeated the Japanese army in numerous actions in the interior and on the coastlines of Bataan.
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 before the federal, state and local governments. And it provides a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer pr
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. intelligence information have eroded the global public’s trust in the United States government and our technology sector. As a result, both the federal government and U.S.