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January 7, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: It has been years since federal officials declared that the “Great Recession” had ended and recovery had begun. It has been years since the Obama Administration took office, promising to deliver prosperity and security once more to our Nation.
We are now approaching American voters’ next choice of leadership for the United States. And the Obama Administration seeks to assure us that times are better, and times are safer.
Workers, small business owners and Main Street families across our Nation know better. America is still struggling to creat
January 7, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: It has been years since federal officials declared that the “Great Recession” had ended and recovery had begun. It has been years since the Obama Administration took office, promising to deliver prosperity and security once more to our Nation.
We are now approaching American voters’ next choice of leadership for the United States. And the Obama Administration seeks to assure us that times are better, and times are safer.
Workers, small business owners and Main Street families across our Nation know better. America is still struggling to creat
January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act (H.R. 1155) by a vote of 245-174.
The bill seeks to establish a blue-ribbon review committee to provide Congress with recommendations for the elimination of obsolete or unnecessary regulations that are costly to the American people.
January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act (H.R. 1155) by a vote of 245-174.
The bill seeks to establish a blue-ribbon review committee to provide Congress with recommendations for the elimination of obsolete or unnecessary regulations that are costly to the American people.
January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C.— Today the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2015 (H.R. 712), by a vote of 244-173.
January 6, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: As we begin 2016, we face the same difficulty we have faced since the beginning of the Obama Administration. Because the Administration and the entrenched Washington regulatory bureaucracy insist on piling burden upon burden on the backs of workers, Main Street families and small business owners, America is still struggling to create enough new jobs and economic growth to produce the prosperity.
To turn this problem around, we must not only stem the tide of unnecessarily costly new regulations.
January 6, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: As we begin 2016, we face the same difficulty we have faced since the beginning of the Obama Administration. Because the Administration and the entrenched Washington regulatory bureaucracy insist on piling burden upon burden on the backs of workers, Main Street families and small business owners, America is still struggling to create enough new jobs and economic growth to produce the prosperity.
To turn this problem around, we must not only stem the tide of unnecessarily costly new regulations.
January 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on President Obama’s executive actions on firearms:
Chairman Goodlatte: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is one of the fundamental principles of our Republic and is not to be infringed. Over the course of President Obama’s tenure in office, his Administration has sought to undermine the Second Amendment on numerous occasions but opposition from the American people and Congress often have stopped his attempts to restrict this constitutional right.
January 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on President Obama’s executive actions on firearms:
Chairman Goodlatte: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is one of the fundamental principles of our Republic and is not to be infringed. Over the course of President Obama’s tenure in office, his Administration has sought to undermine the Second Amendment on numerous occasions but opposition from the American people and Congress often have stopped his attempts to restrict this constitutional right.
December 23, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), and Rep.