Tag: Bob Goodlatte

Two House Republican chairmen called for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications on Carter Page to be unredacted.

A Republican lawmaker says the testimony of former FBI attorney Lisa Page before House investigators differed greatly from her lover and bureau special agent Peter Strzok.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) reiterated he and fellow House Republicans’ plans to hold disgraced FBI attorney Lisa Page in Contempt of Congress over her refusal to testify.

FBI agent Peter Strzok refused Thursday to hand over his text messages to Congress for further investigation, telling the U.S. House of Representatives that the Inspector General had already reviewed the relevant texts and found “no acts of bias.”

FBI agent Peter Strzok testified Thursday before the U.S. House that the Office of the Inspector General allowed him to decide which of his text messages with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page he would turn over to investigators — and which he would withhold.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page might be held in contempt of Congress because she rejected a subpoena to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok to publicly testify on July 10.

The Paul Ryan amnesty bill failed to pass through the House on Wednesday and garnered less votes than the Trump-endorsed Goodlatte immigration bill.

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein praised Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) for introducing H.R. 6095, the Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act (EAADA), which will help stop left-wing attempts to urge companies and consumers to boycott Israel.

A group of Republican lawmakers have requested Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hand over the names of every individual working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

House investigators scored a victory this week after the FBI turned over documents detailing how senior law enforcement officials handled “surveillance records,” involving Trump associates, along with documents on the agency’s informant program.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte subpoenaed FBI agent Peter Strzok Friday — days after an attorney for the embattled investigator said he would testify voluntarily before Congress. 

The House of Representatives failed to pass the Donald Trump-endorsed Goodlatte immigration reform bill on Thursday.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)  appeared to reject both immigration reform bills up for a vote in the House Wednesday, citing provisions that provide amnesty for illegal aliens.

“In his remarks, he endorsed both House immigration bills,” Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said in a statement sent to Breitbart News. “He told the members, ‘I’m with you 100%.’” 

Jim Jordan said that the Paul Ryan amnesty bill is inconsistent with the mandate of the 2016 election to build a border wall and reform immigration.

Last week on Fox and Friends, President Trump was asked about Speaker Ryan’s proposed compromise immigration bill and the conservative alternative proposed by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.  “I’m looking at both of them,” Trump said. “I certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one.” 

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed from the Mueller probe following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages, is ready to testify before Congress.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) stated that if an agreement is not reached for Peter Strzok to be produced as a witness, he will be subpoenaed. House Oversight

“James Comey Memos just out and show clearly that there was NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Also, he leaked classified information. WOW! Will the Witch Hunt continue?”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter in reply to a group of leading Republicans on Thursday, indicating he would not be appointing a special counsel to investigate certain aspects of the FBI’s handling of probes into Russian election interference.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a letter on Tuesday from Assistant Attorney General Steven Boyd to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), officially acknowledging for the first time the subpoena the committee sent the DOJ.

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) praised Attorney General Jeff Sessions for firing Andrew McCabe from his position as deputy director of the FBI, saying Sessions “did the right thing.” “I think the attorney general did the right thing,”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed prosecutors in 2017 to investigate matters Congress referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as growing scandals possibly involved criminal activities. These prosecutors will report directly back to Sessions, who told Fox News on Wednesday night that he will then decide whether a second special prosecutor is necessary to take these matters to court.

The GOP chairman of the House judiciary committee is trying to boost his immigration-reform and DACA-amnesty bill by including a separate bill to accelerate the immigration of Indian and Chinese tech-workers.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s “Fox News @ Night,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that the Department of Justice will “consider seriously” the request made by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a

“Trump is the wild card” in ongoing Capitol Hill legislative negotiations on immigration reform and border security, said Chris Chmielenski, Director of Content & Activism for NumbersUSA.

“I think these kids are the American Dream, and they are conservatives,” said Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) of illegal aliens registered with the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“If this bill passes as is, we will be in a better position,” said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations for NumbersUSA, of the Republican-led Securing America’s Future (SAF) Act. The proposed bill grants amnesty for illegal alien recipients of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Bob Goodlatte blasted the DOJ, calling recent revelations of “insider bias” on FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team “deeply troubling.”

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will not seek re-election in 2018, he announced Thursday, ending a 13-term run representing Virginia’s solid-red Sixth Congressional District.

Legislators canceled a scheduled Tuesday committee vote on the huge Agricultural Guestworker Act, and have not set a new date.

House lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that would make suspected membership in the violent MS-13 street gang a sufficient cause for deportation.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has created a 10-person panel to draft a GOP immigration plans in response to President Donald Trump’s no-wall deal support of the Democrats huge ‘dream’ amnesty.

House conservatives will launch an effort to conduct an official House Judiciary Committee-led congressional investigation into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and fired former FBI director James Comey, a notorious leaker, Breitbart News can confirm exclusively.