Press Releases
September 28, 2015
Washington, D.C. – A bicameral group of lawmakers is questioning the constitutionality of the Department of Commerce’s plans to transition critical Internet infrastructure systems away from U.S.
September 25, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced the following hearings for next week.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2911:30 a.m. - Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil JusticeHearing on: H.R. ___, the “Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act of 2015”
Witnesses:
- Ms. Elizabeth Milito, Senior Executive Counsel, NFIB Small Business Legal Center
- Mr. Cary Silverman, Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Mr.
September 25, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement on the announcement that Speaker John Boehner will resign from the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of October:
“Speaker Boehner has been a tireless public servant for his constituents. I respect his courageous decision to step down at the end of October in an effort to unite the Republican Conference, and thank him for his leadership in the House, as well as for his personal friendship over the years. I wish John and Debbie the best as they start a new chapter in their lives. The fight for the conservative cause must go on.
September 25, 2015
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed the Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development (RAPID) Act of 2015 (H.R. 348) by a vote of 233-170.
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? An Examination of the Proposed Health Insurance Mergers and the Consequent Impact on Competition.” The hearing will examine consolidation in the health insurance industry, including the proposed mergers between the health insurance companies Aetna and Humana, and, if finalized, Anthem and Cigna.
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.
“ISIS and other terrorist groups have made it abundantly clear that they will
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. But that’s not what we go for.” Another business executive said, “If you had intact cases, which we’ve done a
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. 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.
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 bipartisan copyright review.
| WHO: | House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R |