115th Congress
October 26, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today issued the following statement on the formal announcement from President Trump declaring the opioid crisis as a public health emergency:
“The opioid epidemic in the United States has destroyed too many lives, families, and communities across the United States. We have all heard the grim statistics: 91 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose. That is more than 33,000 a year. These people are our neighbors, friends, and loved ones and need our help. I’ve heard from constituents about how the opioid epidemic has hit home and affected their families.
October 26, 2017
Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee's hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Refugee Admission Program”.
Chairman Goodlatte: The United States has a generous refugee program and has provided millions of people fleeing persecution with safe haven.
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October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. -- The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 20-10 the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 3711). This bill, introduced by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), preserves jobs for citizens and legal workers by requiring U.S. employers to check the work eligibility of all future hires through the E-Verify system.
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October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed the Congressional Article I Powers Strengthening Act (H.R. 469), a product of the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 234-187.
October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives is considering the Congressional Article I Powers Strengthening Act (H.R.
October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-16 a bill to create a new, workable agricultural guestworker program for America’s farmers and ranchers.
H.R. 4092, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act), authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), replaces the outdated and broken H-2A guestworker program with a reliable, efficient, and fair program. The H-2A program is widely known to be expensive, time-consuming, and flawed. Each year, employers using the H-2A program have to comply with a lengthy labor certification process that is slow and plagued with red tape.
October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of the Legal Workforce Act (H.R.
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October 25, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Today’s markup for the House Judiciary Committee will now begin at 11:00 a.m. Below is the Committee’s schedule for the remainder of the week.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2511:00 a.m.Full Committee MarkupH.R. 4092, the “Agricultural Guestworker Act”
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