Honorable Bob Goodlatte
United States Senator, 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 serves as Vice Chair of the Agriculture Committee. The following is from Representative Goodlatte’s opening statement before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet at an April 10, 2014, hearing titled, “Should the Department of Commerce Relinquish Direct Oversight Over ICANN?” The title of today’s hearing vastly understates its…
