Press Releases
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. embassy in Tehran in 1979, in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981.
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.
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security will hold a joint hearing entitled, “Overturning 30 Years of Precedent: Is the Administration Ignoring the Dangers of Training Libyan Pilots and Nuclear Scientists?”
Witnesses for the hearing will be:
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.) issued the joint statement below following President Obama’s proposal to end the bulk telephone data collection program operated under the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) and reform other aspects of our nation’s intelligence gathering programs.