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Jason Chaffetz

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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.

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Mar 18, 2015

Your budget request requested less beds, not more beds. You could have detained these people.

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Mar 18, 2015

You have 167,000 convicted criminals who are here illegally that should be deported.

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Mar 18, 2015

It is inexcusable to have somebody who has been convicted of these crimes and not immediately deport them.

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Mar 18, 2015

I don't know how you look into the eye of Mr. Shaw. Our heart bleeds for somebody like that.

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Mar 3, 2015

U.S. SECRET SERVICE: ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MARCH 4, 2015 INCIDENT

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Mar 3, 2015

It's time for this Director and this Secretary to take some definitive, conclusive action and fix the problem.

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Mar 3, 2015

The agents' impaired judgment resulted in them driving into a crime scene inches from what the rest of the Secret Service was treating as a potential explosive device.

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Mar 3, 2015

Now that the facts are in, it is time for accountability.

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Mar 3, 2015

If you are going to go consume alcohol and then show up at the White House, disturb a crime scene, get out of here.

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Feb 25, 2015

I just find it curious, out of all the thousands of lawyers in the Department of Justice, why they stumbled upon one who was a max-out donor to the DNC.

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Feb 11, 2015

I will tell you that you can receive a classified briefing about that.

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Feb 10, 2015

We need to work even harder and do more on the government reform side of things.

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Feb 10, 2015

Our mission is to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the Federal Government and all of its agencies.

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Feb 10, 2015

Genuinely good government oversight requires a committee commitment to expose mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Feb 10, 2015

Personnel is the number one issue. We have such a broad swatch of responsibility.

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Feb 4, 2015

I want to thank the body, thank the Speaker, and the process by which we did this. This bill came up in regular order in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. We had a full and complete markup. That was followed by going to the…

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Feb 4, 2015

To take a metric of the gross domestic product, the entire economy, and then have that be the weighted factor by what may happen to a dairy farmer, for instance, who is out there in Utah or Kansas or Colorado is not the way that we should…

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Feb 4, 2015

How much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Feb 4, 2015

I want to highlight, again, that when there was a report done by the GAO, they found that 90 percent of retrospective regulation reviews led agencies to revise, clarify, or eliminate regulatory text. All this does is ask for a report. It…

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Feb 4, 2015

A cost-benefit analysis prior to the implementation of a regulation requires a number of assumptions that make an accurate analysis difficult, if not impossible. H.R. 50 allows committee chairmen and ranking members to ask for the…

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Feb 4, 2015

The one who is in the power position, the one who has got the resources, the one that has got the attorneys is the government. The government is the one that has got all the cards. All we are asking for is to allow input from individuals…

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Feb 4, 2015

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Walker).

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Feb 4, 2015

May I inquire of the time left on both sides? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah has 15\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Maryland has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Feb 4, 2015

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the distinguished majority leader. Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, there are many parts of government that like to act in…

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Feb 4, 2015

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Meadows).

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