Bob Goodlatte

These are not just academic questions. They are fundamental questions that go to the heart of how our government works.

The modern federal administrative state is an institution unforeseen by the Framers of our Constitution and rapidly mushrooming out of control.

The issue before this Task Force is to determine how best to restore those powers to the United States Congress.

The Congress is the body of the three most close to the people because all of us are directly are elected by the people.

The House of Representatives is so constituted as to support in the members and habitual recollection of their dependence on the people.

The concentration of executive, legislative, and judicial power in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny.

Both Mr. Sewell and Ms. Landau did not say subject to an authorized court-ordered warrant.

Would the gentleman yield?

If what happens here is that Apple is forced to write a new operating system, to degrade the safety and security in phones belonging to tens or hundreds of millions of innocent people, it will weaken our safety and security, but it will…

What we need to talk about as a country is we're moving to a place where there are warrant-proof places in our life...

It will set a precedent for other requests from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and any other law enforcement agency to seek the same assistance in many, many, many other cases?

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Our goal is that when we choose a country to conclude such an agreement with, we would want to ensure that country has adequate substantive and procedural base lines to ensure that the orders that they are submitting and serving on our…

One of the primary benefits in an agreement of this nature would be to have reciprocal benefits for the United States in lifting any conflicts of law that might be present in the other country from where we request data.

The Honorable Bob Goodlatte, a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, and Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary

With 63,000 people in the pipeline, 21,000-plus petitions, would they have scared off investors?

At the core of the House Judiciary Committee priorities are the fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed to Americans such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom from having the government…

Does the EPA not view the financial impact of the rules it inflicts upon America's farmers, and homeowners, and taxpayers, and small communities that dot the Shenandoah Valley in my district, do you not view that financial impact to be of…

But when you take the law into your own hands, and do it contrary to what the Clean Water Act provides, you get lawsuits, rather than progress.

I know you can't, because you never did the homework. You never did the work necessary to prove that this was a worthwhile undertaking.

A leaked DHS intelligence report shows the Obama administration's lax immigration policies are fueling this current surge.

This surge will undoubtedly produce similar victims.

Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming Federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the…

Is essentially rewriting the law by blowing wide open a small window of discretion that Congress gave it for law enforcement and national security reasons.

I would hope that regardless of what position people take on the substantive issues that come before the Congress, including health care and the Affordable Care Act, that people would not attempt to change the meaning of the Constitution…