Jason Chaffetz

Our duty on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights.

We exist to secure two fundamental principles, first, Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent; and, second, Americans deserve efficient, effective government that works for them.

I want to thank you particularly for the good work the men and women are doing in Homeland Security.

I happen to believe, Mr. Chairman, that there is a proper place for asylum for those people who are truly in harm's way, whose life is in danger.

How can you provide us nothing? We don't have documents that Mr. Lynch or Mr. Welch or myself or Mr. Walberg can look at.

From the onset, the Obama administration has made it clear that certain broad classes of unlawful aliens would not be deported.

You have a subpoena from the United States Congress.

Did they ask for the Lois Lerner emails?

So the Inspector General is trying to get to the bottom of this matter, and nobody informs them that her computer had crashed and there were emails lost?

That would have been fortuitous with the 6-month month backup available.

I think that the court got Kirtsaeng right. I am a big proponent of that.

It is a very difficult issue. If this was simple, we would not be gathered here this day.

Thank you. And thank you, Chairman, for holding this hearing.

If I simply hand somebody my phone and they open up a game on it, they wouldn't have the protections of Section 117.

I think it is one of these overlapping areas, which of course makes it more complicated.

I really do want to come to a resolution.

We have a big piracy problem in this Nation and certainly globally.

I think that is wrong. That is why we are having a hearing.

The administrator of the EPA is saying to temporarily halt its investigation.

That is halting and stopping, and I believe obstructing their ability to do their job.

We didn't run to the sound of the guns. They were issuing press releases. We had Americans dying.

How is this relationship 'normalized' when our Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi 18 months ago?

Why is the Administration proposing to lift a 30-year ban on Libyans coming to the US to train as nuclear scientists now?

I don't think bringing people in to train them on nuclear sciences when they have no nuclear power plants is where we would start.

I think it would be prudent to allow public comment and to allow the public notice, and then public comment and to better inform Congress of what you are trying to do.