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[embed]https://youtu.be/fRobC3JC8BM[/embed] Chairman Goodlatte: Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of S. 238, the “Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015.” Eric Williams was born on August 24, 1978, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Donald and Jean Williams. Eric spent most of his life in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania where he attended the Nanticoke public schools and graduated from Greater Nanticoke Area High School in 1996.

Washington, D.C.  – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-10 the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3892), which calls on the State Department to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization in order to better protect national security. The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the world.

Washington, D.C.  – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-10 the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3892), which calls on the State Department to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization in order to better protect national security. The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the world.

Chairman Goodlatte: I was troubled to learn that the State Department has never designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Since the Muslim Brotherhood formed in Egypt in 1928, it has sought to foster the establishment of a global Islamic state and jihadism in Muslims around the world.  The Brotherhood’s strategic goal “in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is

Chairman Goodlatte: I was troubled to learn that the State Department has never designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Since the Muslim Brotherhood formed in Egypt in 1928, it has sought to foster the establishment of a global Islamic state and jihadism in Muslims around the world.  The Brotherhood’s strategic goal “in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is

Chairman Goodlatte: The Nation’s legal lights faded recently, with the loss of the great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But they will not be dimmed for long.  For Justice Scalia left a legacy of illumination that will continue far beyond his mortal years. Although Justice Scalia is no longer with us on Earth, his cogent, witty, and plain-spoken writings will continue to educate law students and good citizens everywhere for centuries to come. Justice Scalia was no mere legal technician.

Washington, D.C.—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today joined 205 members of the House and Senate who have signed an amicus brief to support petitioners in the State of West Virginia et al v. EPA litigation pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The petitioners are challenging the U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the plan issued by the Department of Defense to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and relocate detainees in the United States: “The Obama Administration thinks enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay deemed too dangerous for release to foreign countries should be brought to