Honorable Bob Goodlatte
United States Representative, Virginia, Republican
Representative Goodlatte, of the Sixth District of Virginia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He was the District Director for then-Representative Caldwell Butler (VA-R) from 1977 to 1979 and a practicing attorney from 1979 to 1992. He chairs the Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Agriculture Committee. The following is from the May 22, 2018, House floor debate on H.R. 5682, the FIRST STEP (Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person) Act. I rise in strong support of H.R. 5682, the FIRST STEP Act. The bipartisan bill before us is a meaningful,…
