Jason Chaffetz

We have a moral imperative to pursue this. We have four dead Americans.

This is not an environment where posts should be directed to normalize operations and reduce security resources in accordance with artificial timelines.

I believe personally with more assets, more resources, just meeting the minimum standards, we could have and should have saved the life of Ambassador Stevens and the other people that were there.

I have no additional speakers, but I will continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I think one of the untold sad stories that we are going to look back here upon in Afghanistan years, decades from now is the waste, the fraud, the abuse, that we were exacerbating the problem, we were funneling money to the enemy, we were…

I just can't--I just fundamentally have trouble sending money directly to these governments without the accountability metrics in place.

We have a dead Border Patrol agent, nearly 2,000 AK-47s released, hundreds of dead Mexicans...

I want the firewood records. Where are the firewood records?

The idea of rooting out corruption, fraud, abuse is something I think that we are all dedicated to.

I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Buerkle), the prime sponsor and author of this piece of legislation.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will be, under the general leave, inserting a couple of letters. One is from Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense under President Reagan, who wrote us a letter saying…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. The need for reforms in the Federal appointments process is not a new topic. There is little dispute that the current nominations process has grown too cumbersome and complicated, in some cases…

There is a need for this. I wish there wasn't a need for this. There are other more pressing things that we should be focused on. But this is $1 billion in uncollected taxes, taxes that are due by Federal workers. Again, I don't want to…

This is a good, commonsense piece of legislation, and I urge its adoption. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz) that the House suspend…

Let me say, in conclusion here, look, if Federal workers aren't paying their Federal taxes, they should be fired. If they're not paying their Federal taxes and they want employment here, they should not be employed as Federal workers. We…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, almost every Federal employee that I have run into, they're good, hardworking, patriotic people trying to do the right thing; but unfortunately we have a few that really aren't doing…

I would like to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert).

I appreciate the great work Senator Grassley has done on this bill. I urge its adoption. I think we can do so in a bipartisan way, and I urge a ``yes'' vote. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on…

S. 300 puts commonsense controls on the users of government charge cards which allow Federal workers to purchase goods and to travel in a timely and cost-efficient manner. In any economy, but especially the one we're in now, there is no…

We knowingly gave the drug cartels nearly 2,000 weapons. Mostly AK-47s. And there didn't seem to be an adult in the room that said, do we really do that? Maybe this is a bad idea.

One of the things that brother me personally is you have the acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, in almost 2 1/2 years that he was there, he met with his boss, the attorney general, Attorney General Holder, one time.

Just because the Bush administration did it and did it poorly doesn't mean they have an excuse to continue to do it.

Well, remember, that the House held Attorney General Holder, the Department of Justice, in contempt. It wasn't about him personally.

I mean one of the things that brother me personally is you have the acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, in almost 2 1/2 years that he was there, he met with his boss, the attorney general, Attorney General Holder, one time.

Well, just because the Bush administration did it and did it poorly doesn't mean they have an excuse to continue to do it.