114th Congress

Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a third hearing to examine the allegations of misconduct and articles of impeachment filed against IRS Commissioner J

Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), and Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman, and sponsor of the bill Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) praised the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of the Midnight Rules Relief Act

Chairman Goodlatte: “Midnight regulation” is one of the most vexing problems in Washington’s overreaching regulatory system.  Administration after administration, there is a spike in rulemaking activity during the last year of a president’s term—particularly between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These successive waves of midnight regulation present deeply troubling

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry and learning that the Obama Administration plans to set the refugee ceiling for Fiscal Year 2017 at 110,000 and bring in more Syrian refugees this coming year: “Every year it becomes increasingly clear that our na

As part of the Administration’s unprecedented clemency initiative, serious violent felons are being releasedWashington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today called on President Obama to cease commuting the sentences of serious violent felons and other drug traffickers who pose a threat to America’s public safety. A

Chairman Goodlatte: When we look at the array of agencies and departments within the federal government, only a certain number carry out a mission that is explicitly called for in the Constitution. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), at the Department of Commerce, is one such agency.