Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, February 11 at 10:30 a.m., the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Federal Asset Forfeiture: Uses and Reforms.” Members of the subcommittee will examine current asset forfeiture procedures and practices and the Justice Department’s recently revised guidelines issued governing the circumstances under which state seizures will be “adopted” by the federal government for forfeiture
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, February 11 at 1:00 p.m., the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing on three legislative proposals introduced last Congress that strengthen the enforcement of immigration laws in the interior of the United States, reform asylum laws in order to eliminate fraud and abuse, and end the Obama Administration’s policies that encourage illegal immigration:
Ken Buck represents the Fourth Congressional District of Colorado. After graduating from Princeton University and Wyoming University College of Law, Ken worked for Congressman Dick Cheney (R-WY) on the Iran-Contra Investigation. He served as a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1990 Ken joined the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office where he became the Chief of the Criminal Division. In 2004 he was elected Weld County District Attorney.
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 12th at 10:30 a.m., the Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing entitled “Consumers Shortchanged? Oversight of the Justice Department’s Mortgage Lending Settlements.”
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today was joined by Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Representative Zoe Logren (D-Calif.), and Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in introducing a bill to address the ever increasing problem of abusive patent litigation. The bipartisan Innovation Act (
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tom Wheeler’s net neutrality proposal detailed to Congress today.