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October 4, 2011

Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in May 2011 were truthful.

October 1, 2011

Washington, D.C. -House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today applauded the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Japan.

September 30, 2011

Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued the following statement today in response to a media report that the Obama administration plans to challenge several state immigration enforcement

September 22, 2011

Bipartisan, Bicameral Measure is Biggest Effort to Reform Regulatory Process
in More Than a Decade

September 21, 2011

Washington, DC - The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885), a bill that could open up millions of jobs for unemployed American workers by requiring all U.S. employers to use E-Verify.  The bill was reported favorably to the House floor by a vote of 22-13.

September 16, 2011

Washington, D.C. - President Obama today signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R.

September 13, 2011

Washington, D.C. - A broad coalition of groups support the Legal Workforce Act, a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that could open up millions of jobs for unemployed Americans by requiring all U.S. employers to use E-Verify. 

September 12, 2011

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued the following statement calling on President Obama to include E-Verify in his jobs plan.

September 12, 2011

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano requesting information and documents about the development of the administration’s backdoor amnesty for illegal immigrants.