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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.
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.
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.
We are letting millions of people, almost a million a day, into the Country. We have no idea how many are going out, is that fair to say?
Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they are getting from the government.
Americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them.
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.
We exist to secure two fundamental principles. First, Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.
This is current law, right, that we are supposed to have an entry/exit program. Why don't we have an exit program?
The gentleman from Utah is very correct, this is very different and not nearly as controversial, I assure you. H.R. 253, the Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act, directs the Department of Agriculture to sell 80 acres of U.S. Forest Service…
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 an efficient, effective Government that works for them.
Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their Government.
If they haven't paid their Federal taxes, they should be prohibited from getting additional Federal contracts.
I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member here for their consideration. This is a good, commonsense bill. It passed out of the Congress last time, and I appreciate the bipartisan nature, particularly the gentleman from Arizona…
I stand to honor Private First Class Cody Towse, whose life was lost in Afghanistan. America lost one of its best and Utah lost one of our best. This is a young soldier who had dedicated his life to helping save others. At the age of 18…
your even-keeled, trustworthy leadership became both a symbol of New York's and our Nation's resolve.
I don't think we need to back away from being able to talk about the threats that we face.
I have talked for the last 3 years about the disappearing language of terror.
We, too, just like the ARB, should have unfettered access to all the information, all the witnesses, and all the documents.
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