115th Congress

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the letter outlining the joint investigation conducted by the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into decisions made by the Justice Department in 2016 and 2017 was released.

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified for the first time before the Committee in her capacity as head of the department. Asylum seekers will remain in Mexico.  Secretary Nielsen outlined DHS’s agreement with Mexico that asylum seekers coming from Mexico will remain in Mexico while their as

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 386-5 a bill that helps to reduce our growing over-criminalization problem by eliminating several sections of the criminal code that are bizarre, and/or have never before been prosecuted, the Clean Up the Code Act (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 358-36 a bill that improves the federal prison system through the implementation of corrections policy reforms, the First Step Act. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Vice Subcommittee Chairman Doug Collins (R-Va.) issued the following statements below.  Chairman Goodlatte: “We can all agree that America needs criminal justice reform.

Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following statement during the Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee’s hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.” Chairman Goodlatte: When President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson first testified in front of this Committee, I told him that he was not responsible for the dangerous and irr

WASHINGTON, DC - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) today released the transcript of the second day of former FBI Director James Comey's interview before the Committees. The transcript of Mr.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement at the Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Oversight Hearing for the Antitrust Enforcement Agencies (Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division). Chairman Goodl