Goodlatte to Outline House Judiciary Agenda Feb. 1

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., plans to outline the committee’s agenda for the 115th Congress during a Wednesday Federalist Society event, a committee spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. House Judiciary is expected among other things to take up the Email Privacy Act to update the three-decade-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act and consider legislation to revamp copyright and patent litigation laws. Goodlatte’s speech will come the day after comments are due in to House Judiciary on a joint proposal by Goodlatte and committee ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich., on Copyright Office-centric issues. The proposal mentioned granting the CO more autonomy from the Library of Congress (see 1612080061).