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114th Congress

February 2, 2015

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte welcomed five new Republican members to the House Judiciary Committee for the 114th Congress. For the next five weeks, we will profile each new member.

January 31, 2015

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) made the statement below following the announcement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that it will begin accepting applications for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Feb.

January 30, 2015

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced the following hearings for next week.

January 29, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General today issued a report on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) use of cold consent encounters.
January 28, 2015

Washington, D.C. – The Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee today announced that it will hold two hearings in early February to examine legislative proposals introduced last Congress that strengthen the enforcement of immigration laws in the interior of the United States, reform asylum laws in order to eliminate fraud and abuse, end the Obama Administration’s policies that e

January 28, 2015
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, February 11 at 10:00 a.m., the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing on civil asset forfeiture.  Members of the subcommittee will examine current asset forfeiture procedures and practices and the Justice Department’s recently revised guidelines
January 27, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: Few nightmares equal the terrible reality that thousands of American children awake to each day.  Held against their will, before the day is out they will be forced to share perhaps a dozen strangers’ beds, and be subjected to arbitrary violence for any real or imagined infraction.

January 27, 2015

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 527, the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015,by a vote of 19-8. House Judiciary Committee Member and Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) is the chief sponsor of the bill. The bill passed the House of Representatives last Congress.

January 27, 2015

Chairman Goodlatte: While it goes without saying that the growth of the Internet and smartphones has proved to be of great value in many aspects of our lives, these tools can also be used by criminals to facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of children and other victims by providing an easy way for pimps, or traffickers, to market child sex trafficking victims to those who seek

January 27, 2015
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved four bills by voice vote to combat human trafficking in America. These bills were unanimously approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week.