Jason Chaffetz

I'm telling you if you look at Glen Doherty, you look at Lieutenant Tyrone Woods, they ran to the sound of the guns.

You know what else happened between October 3rd and October 10th? Congressman Chaffetz, sitting in the chair, went to Libya.

We can't even take care of what we have now.

I find it totally and wholly unacceptable that we don't have the adequate control on something so precious and so visible, so close to the White House as the Lincoln Memorial.

If President Obama wants gun control, he should start with the United States Park Police.

That is a policy we need to revisit.

One week sounds reasonable.

When can you provide to this committee--when I say 'this' committee, both committees, Oversight and Natural Resources, the actual inventory?

How do you account for the other 600 weapons?

So you have 2,500 weapons. Why that number? Why 2,500?

So how many weapons, then, does the U.S. Park Police have? What is the current inventory?

But they are in dispute. Somebody is wrong.

Chairman Chaffetz, this concludes my testimony today. I would be happy to answer any questions you or other members of the subcommittees may have.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.

We exist to secure two fundamental principles: First, Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well-spent.

The Honorable Jason Chaffetz, a Member of Congress from the State of Utah, Opening Statement.

Did you sign this memo of August 31st saying: 'I certify that all weapons inventories for which I am responsible have been completed and all weapons records have been reconciled'?

It is one of the biggest agencies that we have, and it has one of the lowest levels of morale on record, based on the surveys. And when you have vacancies at the top, you have this vacuum that is unfulfilled, and there is a total lack of…

About 65 percent of my State is controlled by the Federal Government, they are Federal lands.

We have to make an example of it. We need to get to the bottom of it.

I'm proud of the fact that we are pursuing this.

How dare anybody suggest that we are at the end of this? This is the beginning of this.

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

I think the gentleman from South Carolina would be most interested to know that based on the formula that Ms. Gambler just shared, the majority of visas that we give out in this Country are B1, B2 entry/exits.

When we don't have a viable exit system and there are no metrics, there is no information, there is not even an attempt to try to gather some names, I am really concerned about the entry/exit program.