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On the recordJuly 4, 2012
It would be as if I went to interview the head of Countrywide and I spent the first 30 minutes of the interview or before the cameras are rolling complaining about my personal mortgage to the guy and then get directed to some program. I would be fired for that.
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Jason Chaffetz
Republican · Utah

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Chaffetz compares the preferential treatment received by Congress members to a hypothetical situation where he would be fired for similar behavior.

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