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Jason Chaffetz is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Utah's 3rd congressional district from 2009 to 2017. During his tenure, he served as the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he was known for his focus on government accountability and transparency. Chaffetz was a vocal critic of the Obama administration and played a significant role in various investigations, including those related to the Benghazi attack and the Clinton email controversy.
This amendment indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and the function of the bill. The SCRUB Act merely clears the underbrush of outdated and unnecessary regulations. There is no reason to exclude any specific agency from…
I have the greatest respect for our Members here. But to suggest that what we are doing is throwing a sledgehammer and that it is pandering, come on. This is a serious effort to suggest, in a bipartisan way, to go back and review things…
I would just remind our colleagues that the cutting doesn't apply until the commission reports back. So until they have had a chance to go in and look and review, then there is an opportunity to cut out this underbrush. And I think I have…
The congressional oversight and investigative work does not need to be an adversarial activity.
Why is it that Members of Congress with security clearances--I happen to sit on the Judiciary Committee, I am on the Crimes Subcommittee--why is it that I cannot actually see what you are sending out far and wide?
As Members of Congress, we should be able to see what you are doing and how you are doing it.
So we are after the truth here most of the time, but I do want to highlight that aspect of this, that we have to be fairer in conducting oversight as well.
You want funding from the American people, there is possible legislation, there are all sorts of things.
I appreciate the gentleman's passion for this issue. All we are asking for, in a bipartisan way--and I sound like a broken record up here--is to review these regulations, go back over an indefinite amount of time to look way back, back…
I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes.
I think it is important that we get these documents, and I think the American people have a right to know is the Department of Justice violating the law when it comes to privacy.
The SCRUB Act is not going to take away the entire FDA. Our food, and the people that work at the FDA, the food safety is an important part of the function that they hold. But I would appreciate anybody to have us understand--we actually…
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, we are not proposing to hurt or kill babies, and we are not proposing to put handcuffs on certain regulators in the financial institutions. What we are asking for is to simply have a…
I would like to make my counterpart aware that I have one additional speaker and then I am prepared to close. At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren).
It has been a year. And we issued a subpoena. It is not like we are not serious about that.
The amendment indicates a fundamental, I think, misunderstanding of the purpose and the functionality of the bill. The SCRUB Act is intended to cut out unnecessary regulations. So the first question you really have to ask yourself is, are…
Here is the problem. The Federal bureaucracy continues to grow and expand to the point where we have millions of people who wake up every day. A lot of them are regulators. They can't justify their existence unless they regulate something…
This is so screwed up about the Obama administration. You're here illegally, you commit a crime, you deport them.
I really do believe that one of the untold stories, the biggest--one of the biggest threats that we have, are those that are coming illegally to the United States.
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