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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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Jan 23, 2012

If you do not like the law, change it, but to ask Mr. Jarvis, Chief Lanier, the Capital Hill Police who all have very difficult jobs to also have to decide which laws to enforce and which ones not to.

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Jan 18, 2012

You don't decide to go to the matinee instead of the 9 p.m. movie and order a cheaper appetizer when you're $142,000 in debt. You make real, dramatic, systemic transformative change. Each one of us received an inheritance, Mr. Speaker…

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Jan 18, 2012

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I want to thank my friend and colleague from the great State of South Carolina, Mr. Tim Scott, for his outstanding work on the Rules Committee. So here we are again, Mr. Speaker, less than 6 months removed from…

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Dec 7, 2011

Well, Mr. Attorney General, it contained material demonstrably false statements. Agreed?

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Dec 6, 2011

I look forward to today's hearing and hearing from our witnesses and hopefully flushing out ideas for eliminating the amount of tax dollars that are being wasted through the Medicaid program.

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Dec 6, 2011

I would once again thank our colleague Ms. Holmes Norton and Ranking Member Cummings. Mr. Davis, the ranking member of the subcommittee, as my colleague so aptly pointed out, also deserves credit. With that, I would urge all of our fellow…

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Dec 6, 2011

Although the United States Constitution gives Congress exclusive legislative authority over the Federal District, in 1973 we granted the District of Columbia some significant autonomy by approving the Home Rule Act. Congress still must…

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Dec 6, 2011

This is wholly unacceptable. And this is why people have lost trust in the institutions of government.

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Dec 6, 2011

I would again thank our colleagues Ms. Norton and Mr. Cummings, and I urge Members to support the passage of H.R. 3237. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman…

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Dec 6, 2011

Earlier this year, this body debated and ultimately approved legislation authorizing scholarships to give needy District of Columbia students the opportunity to leave their public school and enroll in a private school of their choice…

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Dec 6, 2011

Why the reluctance to say which States can't get their act together with respect to Medicaid payments?

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Dec 1, 2011

The President in this very Chamber said we should have no more regulation than is necessary for the health, safety, and security of the American people. Mr. Speaker, the President in this very Chamber conceded overregulation has stifled…

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