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Trey Gowdy

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Trey Gowdy is a former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district, serving from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Gowdy gained national prominence as the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where he led investigations into the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. His tenure in Congress was marked by a focus on issues such as government oversight and national security. Prior to his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor and was known for his legal expertise and assertive questioning style during hearings.

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Oct 21, 2015

We are going to be writing the final definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues, but make no mistake we are going to do it nonetheless.

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Oct 21, 2015

We are going to write that final definitive accounting of what happened at Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues but make no mistake, we are going to do it nonetheless.

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Oct 18, 2015

What I want to know is while violence was going up in Libya, why was our security profile going down? It wasn't even staying the same. It was going down. I want to know why certain things made it to your inbox madam secretary, but the…

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Jul 23, 2015

I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his leadership on this and so many other issues of significance on the Judiciary Committee. His steady hand and brilliant legal mind are without equal on our committee. Mr. Speaker, I also want to…

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Jul 13, 2015

What I find ironic is you are not willing to mandate Federal detainers, but you are willing to mandate that State and local law enforcement cannot assist you in enforcing immigration laws.

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Jul 13, 2015

He is not any kind of person who would qualify for any type of version of deferred action in my book or earned path to citizenship. He is a criminal, a dangerous criminal multiple times over.

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Jul 13, 2015

I mean, if they really are refusing to cooperate, surely we have to have something more than just going back to them and talking to them again.

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Jul 13, 2015

when I hear the term 'sanctuary city,' the only sanctuary it ought to be is for law-abiding citizens.

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May 18, 2015

I want to thank my friends Cedric Richmond and Hakeem Jeffries and others who are working on this issue, because they want a justice system that is colorblind.

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Feb 27, 2015

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 226, noes 186, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 19, as follows: [Roll…

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Feb 25, 2015

I think we both learned something that night.

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Feb 25, 2015

I want to ask you this. Mr. Koskinen, Commissioner Koskinen, in June 2014, said that there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

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