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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.
I want to highlight, again, that when there was a report done by the GAO, they found that 90 percent of retrospective regulation reviews led agencies to revise, clarify, or eliminate regulatory text. All this does is ask for a report. It…
How much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.
To take a metric of the gross domestic product, the entire economy, and then have that be the weighted factor by what may happen to a dairy farmer, for instance, who is out there in Utah or Kansas or Colorado is not the way that we should…
I want to thank the body, thank the Speaker, and the process by which we did this. This bill came up in regular order in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. We had a full and complete markup. That was followed by going to the…
A cost-benefit analysis prior to the implementation of a regulation requires a number of assumptions that make an accurate analysis difficult, if not impossible. H.R. 50 allows committee chairmen and ranking members to ask for the…
The one who is in the power position, the one who has got the resources, the one that has got the attorneys is the government. The government is the one that has got all the cards. All we are asking for is to allow input from individuals…
I thank the gentleman, and I appreciate my colleague from Virginia. I appreciate his tenacity and good work on these issues and on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. But I do have to suggest that if the economy is…
I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Meadows).
At this time, I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina, Dr. Foxx, the prime sponsor of this bill.
I appreciate Congressman Reed and what he is trying to do here. I think this makes a lot of sense. His amendment asks agencies to consider the effects of regulatory action upon private property owners. The amendment furthers the bill's…
I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the distinguished majority leader. Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, there are many parts of government that like to act in…
I would like to point to the bill because it keeps getting repeated on this floor that it doesn't include the public, it doesn't include individuals. That is just not true. On page 12 of the bill: Agencies shall, to the extent practicable…
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