Press Releases

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.  But that’s not what we go for.”  Another business executive said, “If you had intact cases, which we’ve done a

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. The legislation, sponsored by the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), would protect all children who are born alive. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act severely penalizes abortion practitioners who violate federal law by killing innocent children who are born during failed abortion procedures.

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 bipartisan copyright review.

WHO:	House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R

Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 758, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA) by a vote of 241-185. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chief sponsor of LARA, praised the House’s approval of the legislation that will reduce frivolous lawsuits in the United States. The bill imposes mandatory sanctions on attorneys who file baseless lawsuits in federal courts. Chairman Goodlatte: “Frivolous lawsuits have no place in the American courtroom, and current loopholes allow too many lawyers to take advantage of innocent victims.

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. Survivors of the Battle of Bataan, to a man, describe the Philippine scouts as the backbone of the American defense there.

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 programs. The organization received a federal charter in 1932.  DAV is seeking enactment of H.R.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Judicial Redress Act of 2015  (H.R. 1428) by voice vote.