Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after a February 28th memo from John Lafferty, the chief of the Asylum Division at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was leaked to press late last week.
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and several other members of the House Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Jeh Johnson requesting additional information on criminal aliens identified by Secure Communities and released into communities across the United States, as well as the specific crimes committed by these individuals and the justification for their release.
Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved a bill (S. 2195) by unanimous consent to prohibit terrorists from coming to the United States as ambassadors to the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York City. This legislation, authored by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), follows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations. Aboutabeli was a member of the Muslim student group that seized the U.S.
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, May 8th at 9:30 a.m., theHouse Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Comcast Corporation’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable. Yesterday, Comcast submitted a formal filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlining its arguments in support of the transaction. The Department of Justice and the FCC are currently reviewing the proposed transaction.
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the decision made by political appointees at the U.S. Department of Justice to make several of the grants administered by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) either noncompetitive or only partially competitive for Fiscal Year 2014 by limiting grants to only past grantees or to those “invited” to participate.
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today criticized Attorney General Eric Holder for not investigating the leak to the Wall Street Journal in January 2014 that the U.S. Department of Justice does not plan to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups.
Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 4323) by voice vote. This bipartisan bill, introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.), protects victims of rape and helps remove criminals from our streets by extending a federal grant program for state and local governments to reduce the backlog of DNA test kits through 2019.
Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.), and Congressman Ted Poe (R-Texas) will hold a press conference TODAY at 4:00 PM ET with sexual assault survivors to discuss a bipartisan bill, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 4323).
Washington, D.C. — The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 4323) by voice vote. This bipartisan bill, introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.), extends a federal grant program for state and local governments to reduce the backlog of DNA test kits through 2019.
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee approved the strongly bipartisan H.R. 4292, the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act,passed by a voice vote. By making a minor change to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, this legislation strengthens the ability of U.S. museums and schools to borrow foreign government-owned artwork and cultural artifacts.