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December 18, 2015
Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) issued the following statement upon passage of the omnibus legislation, which includes a provision to renew the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund:
“Today’s passage of a fully-funded 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) will ensure that those who suffered terrible loss as a result of the 9/11 attacks receive compensation for their losses. What’s more, the money used to reauthorize the VCF appropriately comes primarily from assets seized from state sponsors of terrorism and not from U.S.
December 18, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) issued the following statement on bipartisan, bicameral efforts to reform the EB-5 investor visa program:
“We are disappointed that the omnibus appropriations bill did not contain bipartisan, bicameral reforms to the EB-5 investor visa program. For months, we have worked with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Leahy to address concerns about rampant fraud and abuse in this visa program.
December 18, 2015
Washington, DC – Today Congressmen Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the House co-chairs of the Congressional International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus, issued the following statement in support of the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) efforts to identify areas of concern in its 2015 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.
“These notorious markets exemplify global counterfeiting and piracy concerns and cause significant economic harm to U.S. intellectual property rights holders.
December 18, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) issued the following statement on bipartisan, bicameral efforts to reform the EB-5 investor visa program:
“We are disappointed that the omnibus appropriations bill did not contain bipartisan, bicameral reforms to the EB-5 investor visa program. For months, we have worked with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Leahy to address concerns about rampant fraud and abuse in this visa program.
December 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below on the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border.
December 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below on the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border.
December 14, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced that the House Judiciary Committee is working on legislation to reform visa security processing, including K-1 visas, and ensure that open source information is reviewed as part of the background check for visa applicants:
December 14, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced that the House Judiciary Committee is working on legislation to reform visa security processing, including K-1 visas, and ensure that open source information is reviewed as part of the background check for visa applicants:
December 11, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: Mr. Speaker, time is short. A temporary ban on state taxation of Internet access is expiring. Section 922 of the Conference Report aids taxpayers by making this ban permanent.
If the ban on Internet access taxes is not renewed, the potential tax burden on Americans would be substantial. It is estimated that Internet access tax rates could be more than twice the average rate of all other goods and services. Low-income households could pay ten times as much as high-income households, as a share of income.
Congress has passed numerous temporary bans with enormous bipartisan support.
December 11, 2015
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed a provision within the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 644) permanently banning state taxation of Internet access.
A temporary ban was first put in place in 1998.