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Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has a generous refugee program and has provided millions of people fleeing persecution with safe haven.  And while we should continue that great tradition, it is clear that our refugee laws are being abused and need to be reformed. The Refugee Act of 1980 created our current refugee resettlement process, in which the President sets the annual limit for the number of refugees the United States can resettle during the next fiscal year. And the Act set forth who could be considered admissible as a refugee and how and when t

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), along with Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), House Judiciary Committee member John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), will speak on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 1:00 PM EST at the Heritage Foundation’s event entitled, “Should the Chevron Doctrine Be Abandoned or Modified?” Members of the House and Senate will deliver a series of speeches on the consequences of the Chevron deference jurisprudence; what Chevron d

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), along with Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), House Judiciary Committee member John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), will speak on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 1:00 PM EST at the Heritage Foundation’s event entitled, “Should the Chevron Doctrine Be Abandoned or Modified?” Members of the House and Senate will deliver a series of speeches on the consequences of the Chevron deference jurisprudence; what Chevron d

Washington, D.C.  – The Task Force on Executive Overreach today held its second hearing titled “Executive Overreach in Domestic Affairs Part I – Health Care and Immigration.” At the hearing, members heard from several legal experts and examined recent examples of executive overreach in which President Obama has failed to faithfully execute the law, including his failure to constitutionally implement the Affordable Care Act and his abrogation of the nation’s immigration laws. The Facts:

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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have pressed the Obama Administration for answers about how a previously-deported criminal known to authorities went on to murder five people. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, an unlawful immigrant, allegedly murdered five people last week in Kansas City, Kansas and Montgomery County, Missouri. According to information provided by U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have pressed the Obama Administration for answers about how a previously-deported criminal known to authorities went on to murder five people. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, an unlawful immigrant, allegedly murdered five people last week in Kansas City, Kansas and Montgomery County, Missouri. According to information provided by U.S.

Chairman Goodlatte: Thank you, Chairman King, for convening this second hearing of the Task Force on Executive Overreach.  The topic today includes recent case studies of the abuse of executive power, and I’ll focus my remarks on the President’s recent actions regarding the implementation of his own Obamacare law. The witness invited by the minority to the Task Force’s last hearing based his testimony around the proposition that the most “pernicious” violations of the separation of powers involve a President’s – quote -- “inappropriate claim of indefeasible power, where even th

Chairman Goodlatte: Thank you, Chairman King, for convening this second hearing of the Task Force on Executive Overreach.  The topic today includes recent case studies of the abuse of executive power, and I’ll focus my remarks on the President’s recent actions regarding the implementation of his own Obamacare law. The witness invited by the minority to the Task Force’s last hearing based his testimony around the proposition that the most “pernicious” violations of the separation of powers involve a President’s – quote -- “inappropriate claim of indefeasible power, where even th