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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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Mar 29, 2018

In Congress, we just politics infects and invades everything.

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Mar 29, 2018

I think they are devastating. They are beyond showing political preferences. It very much impacts peoples' perception of fairness.

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Mar 29, 2018

He is the best hope to produce a product that my fellow citizens can have confidence in. It will not come from Congress. Let me assure you of that.

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Mar 19, 2018

If there is a restraining order with the element of violence, that person is prohibited from having a single bullet, much less an AR-15.

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Mar 19, 2018

Since there is a lot of conversation about mental health and mental illness, we have a statute that if you have been adjudicated mentally defective, or you have been committed to a mental institution, you are prohibited from possessing a…

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Mar 19, 2018

You cannot possess a bullet, if you have been convicted of domestic violence.

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Mar 19, 2018

Anytime you have a hearing title that has the word 'preventable' in it, I think we owe it to our fellow citizens to discuss the limitations of our justice system.

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Mar 19, 2018

My colleague from Virginia, Mr. Goodlatte, made a reference to domestic violence convictions as being a prohibiting act from possessing, even a single bullet, much less an AR-15.

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Mar 18, 2018

Mr. President, if you are innocent, including of collusion, why are you acting the way you have been acting?

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Mar 18, 2018

Given the time, the resources, the independence to do his job and when you are innocent, if the allegations collude you with the Russians and there is no evidence of that and you're innocent of that, act like it.

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Mar 18, 2018

When you are innocent, if the allegation collusion with the Russians, and there is no evidence of that. And you're innocent of that, act like it.

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Feb 22, 2018

He is the best hope to produce a product that my fellow citizens can have confidence in. It will not come from Congress, let me assured you of that.

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Feb 22, 2018

In Congress we just assume politics infects and invades everything.

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Dec 12, 2017

I am not talking about people convicted of violent offenses. I am not talking about people being convicted of crimes against children.

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Dec 12, 2017

What do you propose? What would work?

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Dec 12, 2017

I received a phone call over the weekend from Cory Booker, who is very interested in this bill.

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Dec 12, 2017

Let us assume your research is correct. Let us assume there is a reason you are a professor and I am not.

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Nov 27, 2017

Now NIH needs, I think, to be a fair broker in all this so that the right compounds get the right money spent on them to develop them.

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Nov 14, 2017

We should not have to resort to compulsory process to gain access to documents or witnesses, but I want every agency that's paying attention to know that we will.

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Nov 13, 2017

my motivation is a love for that Department and a love for the concept of blind justice

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Nov 13, 2017

it is not appropriate for the President to weigh in on an ongoing investigation

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Nov 13, 2017

the Department of Justice should not be.

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