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115th Congress

March 23, 2018
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) recently sat down with AgDay TV host Clinton Griffiths to discuss his bill, the Agricultural Guestworker Act. This bill creates a new, workable agricultural guestworker program for America’s farmers and ranchers and is also contained in the Securing America’s FutureAct (H.R.
March 22, 2018
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, today made the following statement on the failure of congress to reform the deeply flawed and fraud-ridden EB-5 Visa Regional Center program. “We, as chairmen of the Senate and House committees of jurisdiction, have been working in good faith with stakeholders for years on a compromise solution to fix the corrupt and fraud-ridden EB-5 regional center program.
March 22, 2018
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today subpoenaed the Department of Justice for documents regarding charging decisions in the investigation surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommendation to fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Last year, the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced a
March 22, 2018

Washington, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the

March 22, 2018
Washington, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released this statement following House passage of the omnibus spending package, which includes the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act (H.R.
March 21, 2018
Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee held a hearing on “Preventing Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy.” Witnesses at this hearing discussed lapses in information sharing between local and federal law enforcement, as well as public policy guidance that limits the ability of
March 21, 2018
Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee held a hearing on “Preventing Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy.” Witnesses at this hearing d
March 20, 2018
Washington, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) delivered the following remarks at the Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee hearing on “Assessing the Effectiveness of the Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents.Chairman Goodlatte: A strong and healthy patent system is important to the economy and to American technological leadership.  A st
March 20, 2018
Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks at a Crime Subcommitte Hearing on “Preventable Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy.” This hearing will examine misguided public policy decisions that prevent law enforcement from interceding against violent individuals at schools,
March 19, 2018
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News to discuss the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and renew the call for a second special counsel to investigate inconsistencies in decisions made by the Department of justice in 2016. “I think the Attorney General did the right thing.