Jason Chaffetz

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.

I thank Chairman Goodlatte for bringing this piece of legislation forward, and I appreciate the bipartisan manner in which it is done. The Internet is working. It is working. It is one of the great things about our economy. It is one of…

I wish to speak about the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Interstate commerce has blossomed with the wires and connectivity that the Internet has provided us for these last couple of decades, and since 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has…

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.

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?

Did they ask for the Lois Lerner emails?

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

You have a subpoena from the United States Congress.

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

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

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.

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

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 really do want to come to a resolution.

It was April 2009 when President Obama said that he was going to form an integrated electronic health record project to take the records between the DOD and Veterans Administration and, together, he said that it ``would represent a huge…

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

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

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.

I want you to find the list, get us that information.

But the concern is, when we are $102 billion into it, and most of that is DOD, it is not USAID, we continue to pour money into this thing and we haven't tackled the most basic problem which I think is corruption.

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.

This place is falling apart, and we are over here trying to figure out how to get more Libyans into the United States to be trained on nuclear sciences.