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January 27, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: While it goes without saying that the growth of the Internet and smartphones has proved to be of great value in many aspects of our lives, these tools can also be used by criminals to facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of children and other victims by providing an easy way for pimps, or traffickers, to market child sex trafficking victims to those who seek

January 27, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: Few nightmares equal the terrible reality that thousands of American children awake to each day.  Held against their will, before the day is out they will be forced to share perhaps a dozen strangers’ beds, and be subjected to arbitrary violence for any real or imagined infraction.

January 27, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Next Tuesday, February 3 at 11:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the lack of interior enforcement of immigration laws in the United States and how it has led to a broken immigration system.

January 27, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: While it goes without saying that the growth of the Internet and smartphones has proved to be of great value in many aspects of our lives, these tools can also be used by criminals to facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of children and other victims by providing an easy way for pimps, or traffickers, to market child sex trafficking victims to those who seek

January 27, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Next Tuesday, February 3 at 11:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the lack of interior enforcement of immigration laws in the United States and how it has led to a broken immigration system.

January 26, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Today, Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 526, the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act (FACT Act).

January 26, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Today, Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 526, the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act (FACT Act).

January 26, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Today, Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 526, the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act (FACT Act).

January 26, 2015

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced the following markup for next week.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

1:30 p.m. Full Committee Markup

January 22, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives passed H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, by a vote of 242-179 on the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act was introduced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.).