114th Congress
September 22, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Today’s proceeding marks the fourth in our series of hearings focused on competition in the health care marketplace. Now, the Committee turns its attention to the pharmaceutical industry and the drugs that are used in the treatment of opioid overdose and addiction.
Competition in the addiction medicine markets, like the pharmaceutical market as a whole, involves a delicate balance. On the one hand, we want to encourage pharmaceutical companies to invest in expensive research and development in order to bring innovative and life-saving drugs to market. On the other hand, we also want to encourage sufficient competition to ensure that there is an approp
September 22, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) today called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson to investigate and begin the process of revoking citizenship for people that obtained citizenship despite being ineligible and due to the Department’s systemic failures.
Earlier this month, the DHS Office of Inspector General (IG) issued a report finding that at least 858 individuals who were ordered deported were instead granted citizenship because they used another identity wh
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September 22, 2016
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
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September 22, 2016
Letter from Chairmen asks DHS to explain vulnerabilitiesWashington, D.C. - Today, after obtaining an internal document from U.S.
September 21, 2016
Washington, D.C.—Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and the bill’s sponsor Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) issued the following statements upon the passage of the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2015 (H.R. 2315), by the House of Representatives by voice vote.
Chairman Goodlatte: “American small businesses should not face added regulatory burdens just because they must send their employees across state lines to conduct their business.
September 21, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: The Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act provides a clear, uniform framework for when States may tax nonresident employees who travel to the taxing State to perform work.
In particular, this bill prevents States from imposing income tax compliance burdens on nonresidents who work in a foreign State for fewer than 30 days in a year.
The State tax laws that determine when a nonresident must pay a foreign State's income tax and when employers must withhold this tax are numerous and varied.
Some States tax income earned within their borders by nonresidents even if the employee only works in the State for just one day. These complicated
September 21, 2016
Washington, D.C. —House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.) issued the following statements on today’s approval by the House of Representatives of the “Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists (REVIEW) Act of 2016” (H.R.
September 21, 2016
Chairman Goodlatte: Washington’s regulatory system one that virtually every day places new obstacles in the path of American jobs and economic growth. The biggest obstacles of all are new regulations that impose more than $1 billion per year in costs on the American economy.
Struggling workers, families and small business owners have every right to ask why regulations that cost this much are ever promulgated at all. Surely there are less costly measures that are effective and should be adopted instead.
September 21, 2016
Director James Comey to testify and answer questions from committee membersWashington, D.C. – On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., Director James Comey will testify before the House Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Established in 1908, the FBI is a national security and law enforcement agency tasked with protecting the United States from terrorist threats and upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States.