Bob Goodlatte

The contributions of highly-skilled and educated immigrants to the United States are well-documented.

This litigiousness has created what amounts to a 'tort tax,' which imposes an added cost on every product Americans purchase and every service we consume.

Unfortunately, the United States has become the world's most litigious country.

We need to have a tort system and a civil justice system that is like these other countries.

We need a civil justice system that deters wrongdoers and fully compensates victims.

With America's facing high unemployment and stagnant economic growth, it is the role of every congressional committee to do its part to get America moving again.

We must not forget that it was the lack of adequate regulation which caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Sago Mine disaster, the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession that followed.

One of my top priorities in this Congress will be to do everything possible to reduce the regulatory burdens that our nation's small businesses are facing.

The overreach of Obama administration regulations is one of the chief reasons the economy has failed adequately to recover.

Let me be clear. Congress cannot sit silent while America's economic growth is imperiled.

Let me be clear, Congress cannot sit silent while America's economic growth is imperiled.

Nearly every discussion regarding the reform of U.S. immigration laws acknowledges that we must have in place a nationwide, mandatory system for employers to electronically verify the work authorization of their employees.

E-verify is not the entire solution, but it is a critical part of the enforcement solution.

I do want to say how important I think E-Verify is as we work through the entire issue of immigration law reform.

We have not had cooperation from the Administration in terms of producing important documents that we need to review

This needs to have the Administration actually show up to the game.

We will continue to work together in a bipartisan fashion to conduct the oversight that is necessary

We don't want to put ourselves in the position with this analogy drawn by Mr. Wittes that we are going to rely on the foreign government to protect the rights of the United States citizen, as opposed to our own government protecting those…

We need to know more, and I hope that the way that we conduct this hearing individually among our Members of the Committee will convince the Administration that this is not personal, nor political, and that all we are seeking is…

I share it, and I will work with him and the other Members on his side of the aisle, as well as the other Members on our side of the aisle to see what we can do to bring about better cooperation.

I don't think that the Attorney General of the United States can decline to come before this Committee on a subject that is so clearly within our jurisdiction.

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

Thus, antitrust laws set important limits on companies' freedom to merge with one another.

The preservation of free and fair competition, however, is critical to a free market.

In a free market economy like ours, companies are generally free to organize themselves and their assets as they see fit, including by merger.