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Representative Bob Goodlatte , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, yesterday hosted a hearing essentially designed to argue against the Senate bill championed by a "gang of eight." Meanwhile, a House bipartisan "gang" that announced a deal only a week ago is increasingly beset by infighting and may be crippled by the concerns of minority ... (more)

Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will be one of the most important men on Capitol Hill in the fight to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

So you're a Republican politician in Virginia and your whack-a-doodle party has just nominated a whack-a-doodle wingnut named E.W. Jackson to be its nominee for lieutenant governor.

So you're a Republican politician in Virginia and your whack-a-doodle party has just nominated a whack-a-doodle wingnut named E.W. Jackson to be its nominee for lieutenant governor.

Lawmakers say they don't know much more than the public on The Associated Press phone records controversy, but a key Republican said he intends to pursue the matter once the administration's investigation ends.

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into a flawed Milwaukee sting as part of a larger review into how agents handle certain sensitive cases.

Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois confer on Capitol Hill, May 20.

There will be an event on Capitol Hill this week that will tell us a lot about the future of comprehensive immigration reform.

But he seems to be proud of how little he knows. Why didn't his Justice Department inform The Associated Press, as the law requires, before pawing through reporters' phone records? "I do not know," the attorney general told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday afternoon, "why that was or was not done.

The controversial military tool is cleared for use domestically in 2015. Miranda Green reports from the House committee charged with what setting the rules on new eyes in the sky.

A pack of Loudoun County and 10th Congressional District Republicans will head south to Richmond this weekend to help nominate the GOP's candidates for high office in 2013 at the party's state-run convention.

This happened because GOP members on the Agriculture Committee, including some who style themselves tea partiers, joined hands with Democrats to fund a spree of Big Government corporatism predicated on an increasingly remote interest in improving the American agricultural sector.

A man holds a sign protesting the Guantanamo detention facility as Attorney General Eric Holder, right, arrives to testify at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.

New identities created for known terrorists or terror suspects in the government Witness Security Program were not passed on for inclusion on national terrorist watch lists, an internal Justice Department report has found.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday they had reached a tentative deal to revamp the immigration system, after disputes over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits threatened to derail their efforts.

Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee continually interrupted ranking member Darrell Issa during a Judiciary Committee hearing today by claiming that she was lodging parliamentary objections.

President Barack Obama gestures during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Monday, May 13, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, where they talked about subjects ranging from Syria's civil war to preparations for a coming summit in Northern Ireland.

After lawmakers question the IRS over the undue scrutiny the agency put on conservative groups that filed for tax-exempt status during the 2012 elections, they'll want to take action -- to hold people accountable and eventually consider legislation to amend any systemic problems that led to this kind of political discrimination.