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September 14, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: “Midnight regulation” is one of the most vexing problems in Washington’s overreaching regulatory system. Administration after administration, there is a spike in rulemaking activity during the last year of a president’s term—particularly between Election Day and Inauguration Day.
These successive waves of midnight regulation present deeply troubling issues.
September 14, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: “Midnight regulation” is one of the most vexing problems in Washington’s overreaching regulatory system. Administration after administration, there is a spike in rulemaking activity during the last year of a president’s term—particularly between Election Day and Inauguration Day.
These successive waves of midnight regulation present deeply troubling issues.
September 13, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry and learning that the Obama Administration plans to set the refugee ceiling for Fiscal Year 2017 at 110,000 and bring in more Syrian refugees this coming year:
“Every year it becomes increasingly clear that our nation’s refugee resettlement program is in need of reform. For generations, the United States has been a safe haven for people fleeing persecution.
September 13, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry and learning that the Obama Administration plans to set the refugee ceiling for Fiscal Year 2017 at 110,000 and bring in more Syrian refugees this coming year:
“Every year it becomes increasingly clear that our nation’s refugee resettlement program is in need of reform. For generations, the United States has been a safe haven for people fleeing persecution.
September 13, 2016
As part of the Administration’s unprecedented clemency initiative, serious violent felons are being releasedWashington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today called on President Obama to cease commuting the sentences of serious violent felons and other drug traffickers who pose a threat to America’s public safety.
Although the President has the constitutional authority to issue pardons and commutations, President Obama has initiated an unprecedented clemency program for federal drug offenders and has granted mor
September 13, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: When we look at the array of agencies and departments within the federal government, only a certain number carry out a mission that is explicitly called for in the Constitution. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), at the Department of Commerce, is one such agency.
September 13, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: When we look at the array of agencies and departments within the federal government, only a certain number carry out a mission that is explicitly called for in the Constitution. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), at the Department of Commerce, is one such agency.
September 13, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The topic of this hearing today, federal court diversity jurisdiction, might seem dry and technical at first blush, but it’s actually near the heart of the Founder’s vision of the body politic -- namely their understanding that federal courts should hear cases between citizens of different states, especially when those lawsuits involved commercial or other subjects integral to the national economy.
Currently, when a citizen from one state sues a defendant from another state, the inter-state nature of that lawsuit gives federal courts jurisdictio
September 13, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The topic of this hearing today, federal court diversity jurisdiction, might seem dry and technical at first blush, but it’s actually near the heart of the Founder’s vision of the body politic -- namely their understanding that federal courts should hear cases between citizens of different states, especially when those lawsuits involved commercial or other subjects integral to the national economy.
Currently, when a citizen from one state sues a defendant from another state, the inter-state nature of that lawsuit gives federal courts jurisdictio
September 12, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson for information about a criminal immigrant previously deported at least five times who is currently illegally present in the United States and reportedly responsible for nearly a dozen sexual assaults.
Nicodemo Coria-Gonzales is charged with six felony offenses, including aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and aggravated kidnapp