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Regulatory Reform Subcommittee to Hold Hearing to Scrutinize the Leeway Bureaucrats Have in Interpreting Federal Statutes

March 8, 2016

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Washington, D.C.— On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 1:30 p.m., the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold a hearing entitled, “The Chevron Doctrine: Constitutional and Statutory Questions in Judicial Deference to Agencies.” The hearing will examine how much leeway bureaucrats currently have to interpret laws already passed by Congress since the Supreme Co

Goodlatte, Conyers, Sensenbrenner and Jackson Lee on the Passing of Tiffany Joslyn

March 8, 2016

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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) today released the following joint statement in the wake of the death of Tiffany May Joslyn, Deputy Chief Counsel of the Crime Subcommittee (Democratic staff), who died on Saturday, March 5, 2016:

“We are dee

Goodlatte and King Ask GAO to Study the Cost of Crime in the United States

March 4, 2016

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Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study the cost of crime in the United States to better inform members of the House Judiciary Committee as it continues its bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative. In 2014, there were nearly 1.2 million violent crimes and 8.3 million property crimes in the United States, generating substantial costs for Americans, commun

Goodlatte and Grassley: ICE Policy Allows Drunk Drivers Who Kill and Injure Americans to Go Free

March 2, 2016

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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 on his department’s policy that allowed three unlawful, criminal immigrants charged with drunk driving go free. On February 24, 2016, Esmid Valentine Pedraza was arrested in San Francisco, California, for the murder of Stacey Aguilar. Prior to allegedly committing the murder, Pedraza was reportedly arrested by U.S.

Task Force on National Security Releases Mission Statement

March 2, 2016

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Task Force on National Security Releases Mission Statement

Hearing Wrap Up: House Judiciary Committee Examines Encryption

March 2, 2016

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Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on “The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy.” At the hearing, members of the House Judiciary Committee closely examined the concerns raised by law enforcement and American technology companies in order to help find a solution that allows law enforcement to effectively enforce the law without harming the competitiveness of U.S.

Hearing Wrap Up: House Judiciary Committee Examines Encryption

March 2, 2016

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Hearing Wrap Up: Executive Overreach Task Force Hearing on Congress’ Constitutional Authority

March 2, 2016

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Washington, D.C. – The Task Force on Executive Overreach today held its first hearing on “The Original Understanding of the Role of Congress and How Far We’ve Drifted From It.” At the hearing, members heard from several experts and examined the House of Representatives’ legislative and budgetary power and how the executive branch has usurped this over the years. The Task Force on Executive Overreach is

Chairman Goodlatte Statement at Encryption Hearing

March 2, 2016

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Chairman Goodlatte: We welcome everyone today to this timely and important hearing on encryption. Encryption is a good thing. It prevents crime, it prevents terrorist attacks. It keeps our most valuable information safe. Yet it is not used as effectively today as is necessary to protect against the ever increasing sophistication of foreign governments, criminal enterprises and just plain hackers. We see this manifest almost every week in the reports of losses of massive amounts of our most valuable information from government agencies, retailers, financial insti

Chairman Goodlatte Statement at Executive Overreach Task Force Hearing

March 2, 2016

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Chairman Goodlatte: James Madison wrote in Federalist No.

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