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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives failed to advance two immigration bills, the Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760) and the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (H.R. 6136). “Immigration reform is a very complicated, difficult, and emotional issue. While the failure of these two bills is disappointing, what is most disappointing is that not a single Democratic member voted for either bill.

Washington, D.C. – The Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (H.R. 6136) – a consensus immigration bill that is the product of negotiations between Republicans of all perspectives – has been improved to include the Agricultural Guestworker Act, or the AG Act, which creates a new, workable agricultural guestworker program to provide America’s farmers and ranchers access to a legal, stable supply of workers for seasonal as well as year-round work. Here are what some of our nation’s leading agricultural groups are saying about these provisions.

Washington, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates vs. Becerra.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and Congressman Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) recently introduced the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018 (H.R.

Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s executive order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States:” “President Trump was right to hit pause on admitting foreign nationals and refugees from countries where adequate security screening cannot occur, and the Supreme Court made the right decision to uphold the Trump Administration’s constitutional and legal executive order.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of June 25-29, 2018. TUESDAY, JUNE 2610:00 a.m.Full Committee MarkupH. Res 938H.

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 9:30 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election.” At the hearing, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the Committee regarding the findings contained in the Justice Department Inspector General’s report about various actions taken by the Justice Department and FBI in

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today subpoenaed Peter Strzok – a former senior official in the FBI’s counterintelligence division – to come before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees for a deposition on June 27, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. as part of the Committees’ joint investigation into decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016. The Committees have repeatedly requested to interview Mr.