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February 18, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement on the announcement that Joseph Clancy has been selected as the Director of the U.S. Secret Service.

Chairman Goodlatte:  “I applaud the selection of Joseph Clancy as the next Director of the Secret Service.  Mr. Clancy has an exemplary record of service as the head of the Presidential Protective Division and took over as Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service at a critical juncture for the agency.

February 18, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement on the announcement that Joseph Clancy has been selected as the Director of the U.S. Secret Service.

Chairman Goodlatte:  “I applaud the selection of Joseph Clancy as the next Director of the Secret Service.  Mr. Clancy has an exemplary record of service as the head of the Presidential Protective Division and took over as Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service at a critical juncture for the agency.

February 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below after Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas temporarily blocked President Obama’s unilateral immigration actions: “President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration poses a clear and present danger to our Constitution and I am pleased that the President’s actions have been temporarily halted so that the states’ lawsuit can move forward.
February 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below after Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas temporarily blocked President Obama’s unilateral immigration actions: “President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration poses a clear and present danger to our Constitution and I am pleased that the President’s actions have been temporarily halted so that the states’ lawsuit can move forward.
February 17, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below after Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas temporarily blocked President Obama’s unilateral immigration actions: “President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration poses a clear and present danger to our Constitution and I am pleased that the President’s actions have been temporarily halted so that the states’ lawsuit can move forward.
February 13, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today sent a letter to Department of Homeland of Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson expressing concern about the startling new changes made to the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that could place potentially hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants on a pathway to citizenship.  

February 13, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today sent a letter to Department of Homeland of Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson expressing concern about the startling new changes made to the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that could place potentially hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants on a pathway to citizenship.  

February 13, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and 169 other House Republicans today sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) demanding him to stop censoring debate on a critical bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security’s operations for Fiscal Year 2015 and defund unconstitutional programs created unilaterally by President Obama. These signatures were gathered in about 24 hours.

February 12, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) today sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels, Jr. expressing outrage over the measures taken by the Obama Administration to help a convicted Cuban spy artificially inseminate his wife in Panama while he was imprisoned in a U.S. federal prison.
February 12, 2015
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) today sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels, Jr. expressing outrage over the measures taken by the Obama Administration to help a convicted Cuban spy artificially inseminate his wife in Panama while he was imprisoned in a U.S. federal prison.