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May 14, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) discusses five things to know about the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048) in the video below.

May 13, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: As we speak, thousands -- no millions -- of telephone metadata records are flowing into the NSA on a daily basis.  Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.  Despite changes to the NSA bulk telephone metadata program announced by President Obama last year, the bulk collection of the records has not ceased and will not cease unless and until Congress a

May 13, 2015

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 338-88 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048).

May 12, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015 (S. 665) by voice vote and the bill is now headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
May 12, 2015
Chairman Goodlatte: This week in Washington, D.C., we are celebrating National Police Week.  This annual tradition, which draws tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from around the country, is a time to celebrate the critical role that police play in maintaining a free and safe society.  It is also a time to mourn our nation’s fallen heroes. Last year, 127 men and w
May 11, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Editorial boards across the United States have come out in support of the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048), a strong, bipartisan bill that reforms our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

May 7, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the statement below after the Second Circuit Court of

April 30, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 25-2 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048).
April 29, 2015
Washington, D.C. – Following the introduction of the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048) a broad coalition has expressed support for this legislation.
April 28, 2015

Washington, D.C. – Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) today will introduce H.R.