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Washington, D.C.  – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote a resolution authorizing a specialized task force to examine the historic increase in presidential power and executive overreach, which is distorting the fundamental system of checks and balances the framers enshrined in our nation’s founding document, the Constitution. The Task Force on Executive Overreach is authoriz

Chairman Goodlatte: The Constitution grants Congress all legislative powers, leaving the President to execute those laws faithfully, according to the will of the people as expressed through their duly-elected legislative representatives in the House and Senate. Yet presidents from both parties have for too long stretched their powers beyond the limits intended by our Founding Fathers.  And too often their abuses have gone uncorrected.  As law professor David Bernstein has written, “The authors of the Constitution expected that Congress as a whole would be motivated to pr

Chairman Goodlatte: The Constitution grants Congress all legislative powers, leaving the President to execute those laws faithfully, according to the will of the people as expressed through their duly-elected legislative representatives in the House and Senate. Yet presidents from both parties have for too long stretched their powers beyond the limits intended by our Founding Fathers.  And too often their abuses have gone uncorrected.  As law professor David Bernstein has written, “The authors of the Constitution expected that Congress as a whole would be motivated to pr

Chairman Goodlatte: Hard-working Americans are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes.  Everyday local business owners routinely have lawsuits filed against them based on claims they have no substantive connection to, as a means of forum shopping on the part of the lawyers filing the case. These lawsuits impose a tremendous burden on small businesses and their employees.

Chairman Goodlatte: Hard-working Americans are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes.  Everyday local business owners routinely have lawsuits filed against them based on claims they have no substantive connection to, as a means of forum shopping on the part of the lawyers filing the case. These lawsuits impose a tremendous burden on small businesses and their employees.