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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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Sep 21, 2016

You have managed to do something that I have not seen done in the five years I have been here.

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Sep 21, 2016

You should never have to choose between your career and justice ever.

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Sep 20, 2016

I want you to imagine waking up and you learn that agents of an agency that you already fear... are targeting people based on their political ideology.

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Sep 20, 2016

Congress... has not only the right but, frankly, an obligation to provide oversight over an agency.

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Sep 20, 2016

The President of the United States... prejudges an investigation while the investigation is pending.

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Sep 20, 2016

There is a palpable animus, a hostility toward conservatives that comes through in her work emails.

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Sep 12, 2016

Mr. Gowdy's just right; he is exactly right.

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Jul 11, 2016

the same rules ought to apply to everyone.

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Jul 6, 2016

Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private email. Was that true?

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Jul 6, 2016

I think Comey is doing exactly what you want. He's doing a serious investigation behind closed doors, away from the media's attention, and I'm going to trust him until I see a reason not to.

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Jul 6, 2016

Mr. Gowdy said, you know, in your statement, Mr. Director, you mentioned that there was no precedent for this, but we believe that you have set a precedent, and it's a dangerous one.

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Jun 27, 2016

They are a sons and husbands and brothers to the people that we talked to at the very beginning and the last group that I talked who which are the family.

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May 23, 2016

Impeachment is a penalty, a punishment, and you're exactly right it is, it is a punishment.

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May 23, 2016

The notion that you can only impeach someone who commits an actual violation of the criminal code is nonsense.

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May 16, 2016

Reporters call us to explain to them what is happening in Moscow and Cairo.

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May 12, 2016

I thank Sheriff Reichert for his service to the country and to the great State of Washington. I want to thank Judge Poe, Sheriff Nugent, and my friend and colleague from South Carolina, Joe Wilson, who is the father of a prosecutor. Mr…

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Apr 27, 2016

I was surprised when you used the phrase 'political bantering' in your opening.

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Mar 21, 2016

Drug courts can save people's lives and get them off. I just hope they get off before they do acts of violence against the innocent public.

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Mar 17, 2016

I will say this, Mr. Speaker. In conclusion, in the oath of citizenship that we require new citizens to take--and I am sure the Speaker already knows this, and perhaps some of my colleagues on the other side may know this as well--but in…

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Mar 17, 2016

Four really quick points. I would say to my friend from Colorado, through the Speaker, that one reason Congress may not enact new laws is that we have absolutely zero confidence they will actually be enforced. Maybe if this President…

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Mar 17, 2016

They did not lift a finger. So with all of the ideas I hear my friends talking about, it just makes me wonder: Where were you when you had the House? Where were you when you had the Senate? Where were you when you had the White House? You…

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Mar 17, 2016

The issue in this case actually implicates the very existence of the House. The law is the reason we exist. We do not exist to pass ideas or to pass suggestions. We make law with the corresponding expectation that that law will be…

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Feb 29, 2016

I am trying to determine whether or not we as a society are going to accept that, that there are certain--no matter how compelling the government's interest is in accessing that evidence, we are declaring right now this is an evidence-free…

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