Jason Chaffetz

I yield such time as he may consume to the chairman of our full committee, Mr. Lamar Smith of Texas.

I have no additional speakers at this time. I would encourage my colleagues to vote for this. It's a good day when we can come to the floor of the House and vote in support of our Guardsmen and those serving in our military. I appreciate…

I have no additional speakers. I just want to, again, thank Chairman Smith. I also want to recognize the good work and the working relationship that I have with Ms. Lofgren of California and the gentleman from Illinois, Luis Gutierrez, who…

Before us today is an important bill sponsored by my colleagues from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen) and Virginia (Mr. Forbes). On the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Americans paused to honor the memory of the innocent victims who perished…

I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on H.R. 2192 currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection…

I guess the concern is you have had this report since February, and I just would appreciate an update.

These firms' activities were detailed in a report from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to the administration in February.

To just merely point out that since Barack Obama took office until now, there are more than 141,000 additional Federal workers on the payroll. So while there has been some discussion about not appreciating Federal workers, I fully…

While the gentleman from Maryland and I may disagree on the statistics of the number of Federal employees, I think we can be united in supporting this bill, H.R. 2061. There are so many good people who are doing the right thing, they're…

illegal immigration truly is the fault of the Federal Government, isn't that correct?

the States are having to live with the consequences of the Federal Government not doing its job.

the Administration is making a very concerted effort to diminish those funds, put them down to a point where they are starting to approach zero.

Federal land ownership is a heated, but critical, topic in my home state of Utah, and I appreciate the Committee for holding a hearing and advancing this dialogue.

It is neither logical nor responsible for the Federal government to own and manage surplus lands.

The current land disposal and exchange system is broken.

It is totally unacceptable to think that our troops would be there without immunity as they enjoy currently.

What is the value? How much have they purchased?

Will our troops have immunity, yes or no?

These people should be fired and sent home.

Our kindness and our generosity is being abused in this case. And it needs to stop.

I don't think it is enough. We have to get a better handle on this, and I think it needs to be a tighter rein and a greater concern for the theft, the theft of billions of dollars of American taxpayer money.

The waste, fraud and abuse that is happening in the theater of war is unacceptably high.

constraints on the Federal Government that would not constrain a private seller need to be modified, replaced, or suspended, as proposed in Representative Chaffetz's bill.

Mr. Chaffetz's legislation would create a pilot program run by OMB to require that selected properties be sold for cash.

This is not acceptable.