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Chairman Goodlatte: Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the criminal organizations that control the drug and human smuggling and trafficking business along the border. More than 152,000 unaccompanied minors and families are projected to illegally cross our southwest border this year.  Some estimates project the number to top 177,000 – the population of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  This would surpass the previous high-mark in 2014 by nearly 30%. These minors, more than two-thirds of whom are be

Chairman Goodlatte: Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the criminal organizations that control the drug and human smuggling and trafficking business along the border. More than 152,000 unaccompanied minors and families are projected to illegally cross our southwest border this year.  Some estimates project the number to top 177,000 – the population of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  This would surpass the previous high-mark in 2014 by nearly 30%. These minors, more than two-thirds of whom are be

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 authorized for six months and will study the impact the increase in presidential and executive branch power has had on the abili

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 authorized for six months and will study the impact the increase in presidential and executive branch power has had on the abili

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 preserve its authority against presidential encroachment.  The Founders, however, did not anticipate the development

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 preserve its authority against presidential encroachment.  The Founders, however, did not anticipate the development