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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today issued the following statement on the formal announcement from President Trump declaring the opioid crisis as a public health emergency: “The opioid epidemic in the United States has destroyed too many lives, families, and communities across the United States. We have all heard the grim statistics: 91 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose. That is more than 33,000 a year. These people are our neighbors, friends, and loved ones and need our help.

Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee's hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Refugee Admission Program”. Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has a generous refugee program and has provided millions of people fleeing persecution with safe haven.

Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee's hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Refugee Admission Program”. Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has a generous refugee program and has provided millions of people fleeing persecution with safe haven.

Washington, D.C. -- The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 20-10 the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 3711). This bill, introduced by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), preserves jobs for citizens and legal workers by requiring U.S. employers to check the work eligibility of all future hires through the E-Verify system. Created in 1996 and operated by U.S.

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed the Congressional Article I Powers Strengthening Act (H.R. 469), a product of the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 234-187.

Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives is considering the Congressional Article I Powers Strengthening Act (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-16 a bill to create a new, workable agricultural guestworker program for America’s farmers and ranchers. H.R. 4092, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act), authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), replaces the outdated and broken H-2A guestworker program with a reliable, efficient, and fair program. The H-2A program is widely known to be expensive, time-consuming, and flawed.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-16 a bill to create a new, workable agricultural guestworker program for America’s farmers and ranchers. H.R. 4092, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act), authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), replaces the outdated and broken H-2A guestworker program with a reliable, efficient, and fair program. The H-2A program is widely known to be expensive, time-consuming, and flawed.