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December 8, 2016
Proposal on Copyright Office ReformWashington, D.C. – Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the first policy proposal to come out of the Committee’s review of U.S.
December 8, 2016
Proposal on Copyright Office ReformWashington, D.C. – Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the first policy proposal to come out of the Committee’s review of U.S.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today amended and approved the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act (S. 2854) by voice vote to extend a critical program that helps investigate and prosecute Civil Rights era crimes.
In 2008, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush to create a structured effort to investigate and prosecute racially-motivated crimes committed decades ago.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Reauthorization Act of 2016 (S. 2854).
Chairman Goodlatte: “This bill is an important step in continuing to investigate the crimes and terror inflicted on so many involved in the civil rights movement.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved the Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act of 2016 (H.R. 6431) by voice vote.
In March 2015, Canada and the United States signed the Agreement on Land, Rail, Marine, and Air Transport Preclearance. This agreement established an immigration and trade preclearance system in order to strengthen economic competitiveness and national security. Preclearance facilities permit travelers to pass through U.S.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act of 2016 (H.R. 6431).
Chairman Goodlatte: “Today we consider on suspension, H.R.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act of 2016 (H.R. 6431).
Chairman Goodlatte: “Today we consider on suspension, H.R.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Kevin and Avonte’s Law of 2016 (H.R. 4919).
Chairman Goodlatte: “It is estimated that 60 percent of the 5.3 million individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and 49 percent of children with autism are susceptible to wandering, or leaving safe areas and the protection of a responsible caregiver.
“The results of wandering can be devastating to the individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and children with developmental disabilities.
December 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. —House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement upon the House’s passage of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act (H.R. 6130) by voice vote.
“The Holocaust was one of the darkest times in human history, and so many lost so much as a result of those horrific actions.
December 7, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: From 1933, when Hitler took power in Germany, until 1945, when the Allied Forces liberated Europe, the Nazis and their collaborators stole countless works of art and cultural objects from museums and private collections throughout Europe.
Indeed, according to the American Alliance of Museums, “the Nazi regime orchestrated a system of theft, confiscation, coercive transfer, looting, pillage, and destruction of objects of art and other cultural property in Europe on a massive and unprecedented scale. Millions of such objects were unlawfully and often forcibly taken from their rightful owners.”
This systematic looting and confiscation of the cultural property of the Jew