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April 30, 2014

Chairman Goodlatte:  The United States is in the midst of a criminal epidemic and our children are the target.  We’ve been referring all morning to this epidemic as domestic minor sex trafficking.  But let’s call it what it really is – the forcible rape of children for profit. 

April 30, 2014

Washington, D.C.The House Judiciary Committee today approved H.R. 776, the Security in Bonding Act,by voice vote.   

 

April 25, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement marking World Intellectual Property (IP) Day.

April 24, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today pressed the Department of Homeland Security for additional information about El Medhi Semlali Fathi who, before his recent arrest, the FBI alleges to have been planning a bomb attack on a school and a federal building. 

April 23, 2014

Washington, D.C. – The Justice Department today announced broad new criteria for federal drug offenders to receive clemency. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will re-assign dozens of attorneys to its Pardon Attorney’s Office to accommodate a projected surge of applications from current federal inmates for clemency.

April 22, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after a February 28th memo from John Lafferty, the chief of the Asylum Division at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was leaked to press late last week.

April 11, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and several other members of the House Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Jeh Johnson requesting additional information on criminal aliens identified by Secure Communities and released into communities across the United States, as well as the specific crimes committed by these individuals and the justification for their release.

April 10, 2014

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved a bill (S. 2195) by unanimous consent to prohibit terrorists from coming to the United States as ambassadors to the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York City. This legislation, authored by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), follows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations. Aboutabeli was a member of the Muslim student group that seized the U.S.

April 10, 2014

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today approved a bill (S. 2195) by unanimous consent to prohibit terrorists from coming to the United States as ambassadors to the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York City. This legislation, authored by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), follows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations. Aboutabeli was a member of the Muslim student group that seized the U.S.

April 9, 2014

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, May 8th at 9:30 a.m., theHouse Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Comcast Corporation’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable. Yesterday, Comcast submitted a formal filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlining its arguments in support of the transaction. The Department of Justice and the FCC are currently reviewing the proposed transaction.