Robert William Goodlatte is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives representing for 13 terms.
18 Facts About Bob Goodlatte
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Bob Goodlatte's district covered Roanoke and included Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Staunton.
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In 2017, Bob Goodlatte presided over a GOP effort, conducted in a secret session, to weaken the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, a move widely criticized by House leaders and the opposition party.
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On November 9,2017, Bob Goodlatte announced that he would not seek reelection in 2018.
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Bob Goodlatte's paternal ancestry includes English and Irish and his maternal grandfather was a Baltic German from Riga.
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Bob Goodlatte holds a Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, received in 1977.
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Bob Goodlatte went on to work as a lawyer in private practice from 1980 to 1993.
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Bob Goodlatte received the Republican nomination at the Republican District convention after Democratic Party candidate Jim Olin opted not to run for reelection in 1992.
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In 2010, Bob Goodlatte was challenged by Independent Jeffrey Vanke and Libertarian Stuart Bain.
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In 2009, Goodlatte was appointed to serve as the co-lead impeachment manager alongside Adam Schiff for the impeachment trial of Judge Samuel B Kent.
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The proposed amendment to House Rules, spearheaded by Bob Goodlatte, gave the House Ethics Committee - made up of partisan elected officials - oversight of what would be the renamed Office and power to stop inquiries that had the potential to lead to criminal charges.
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Bob Goodlatte wrote and put forward both the "clean" Balanced Budget Amendment which had a higher chance of actually passing the House and the Senate as well as a version that makes it harder to increase taxes by requiring a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers to raise taxes.
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Bob Goodlatte supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry to the US to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Bob Goodlatte is the co-chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Internet Caucus, Chairman of the House Republican High-Technology Working Group, and Co-Chairman of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus.
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Bob Goodlatte is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online gambling.
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In September 2006, working with then Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, Bob Goodlatte was a major House supporter of the Unlawful Internet gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.
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Bob Goodlatte's last act as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee before leaving in December 2018 was to block Savanna's Act, a bill introduced by Heidi Heitkamp and which had passed without opposition in the Senate.
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Bob Goodlatte has been married since 1974; he and his wife have two children.