Skip to main content

Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security

March 11, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General today issued a scathing report identifying significant concerns with the Department’s handling of sex offenders in the Witness Security Program and the threat they pose after being terminated from the program. As of July 2014, the Inspector General found that a total of 58 sex offenders at one point were in the Witness Security Program, including 10 individuals who were convicted of sex offenses prior to admittance to the program, 10 i
Date:
Location:
2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

Date:
Location:
2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

February 25, 2015

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “ISIL in America: Domestic Terror and Radicalization.” At the hearing, members of the subcommittee will examine domestic terrorism, in particular the increasing threat posed by the Islamic State through the assassination of American captives, recruitment of American citizens, self-radicalization, and domestic terr

February 25, 2015
Washington, D.C. – Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) today introduced the Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation and Safety of Maritime Navigation Act (H.R.
February 24, 2015
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:15 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the unconstitutionality of President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration.
February 19, 2015
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “ISIL in America: Domestic Terror and Radicalization”.
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 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.
Date:
Location:
2141 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING