Yet the current Administration has unilaterally sought to rewrite the law, not by working with the people's duly elected representatives.

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

If you're not sure what that limit is, you shouldn't come to us, the United States Supreme Court, you should go to the United States Congress.

What limiting principle could stop the President from granting, for example, capital gains tax amnesty?

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

Would the gentleman yield?

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?

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

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…

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

To respond to some of the points raised by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), the ranking member. First of all, it is not this bill that removes cases from State courts to Federal courts. It is the United States Constitution and…

I seek time in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Buck) for bringing this outstanding legislation before the House. This is very common sense. It solves a very practical problem, and most importantly, it protects the innocent. I want…

Hardworking Americans are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes. Every day, local businessowners routinely have lawsuits filed against them, based on claims they have no…

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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…

To close. Very simply, a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Eric's parents. They came to the House Judiciary Committee on the day that we marked up our prison reform legislation and included matters related…

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

Today I rise in support of S. 238, the Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015. Eric Williams was born on August 24, 1978, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Donald and Jean Williams. Eric spent most of his…

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.

I especially thank Congresswoman Comstock for leading this tribute to Justice Scalia. The Nation's legal lights faded recently with the loss of the great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but they will not be dimmed for long, for…

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.