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The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Law
President
Trump
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There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Floating
Numbers
Smarter
Social Security
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I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Mean
Squares
Winning
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My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Fought
Passed
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The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Deserve
Doe
Good Place
Protection
Sage
Good Place Good Place
French
Federal
Listed
Menu
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If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Administration
Thinking
Trump
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I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Tax Breaks
Breaks
Economically
Offset
Rates
Reductions
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People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Benghazi
Furious
Host
Irs
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Fighting Me People
Me Fighting People
Planned
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Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Dollar
Pocket
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Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Principles
Guide
Stood
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My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Citizens
Facts
Honor
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From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Average
December
Employee
June
Percent
Increased
Salaries
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What is the government doing or not doing in terms of tracking you, following you, investigating you? And if you're suspicionless, it should be none of the above.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Following
Investigating
Tracking
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I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Communicate
Firing
Democrats
Unify
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If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Battle
Fewer
Fiscal Responsibility
Selling
Seniority
Fiscal
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I want to cut - personally, I want to cut spending. Personally, I just don't believe we can continue to add to the deficit. So, actually, personally, I like the budget cap.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Add
Deficit
Budget
Cap
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I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Amendment
Debates
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You've got to speak; you've got to be able to articulate the Republican message to the American people and take that fight to the president, but you also have to bridge internally.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
American People
Articulate
Bridge
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The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Debt Ceiling
Preference
Trajectory
Ceiling
Committee
Raise
Solution
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My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Aisle
Both Sides
Congress
Department
Integrity
Lied
Members
Sides
Agent
Department Of Justice
Stand Up
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I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Agency
Department
Anywhere Else
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[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Government
Law
Thinking
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I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. And so I do believe that he has set up a plan where the revenue or the profits that are coming to the hotel will be given directly to the Treasury.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Believe
Mean
Trump
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Incredible how unnecessary it [questions the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump] was, because John Lewis was articulating something that most Democrats simply aren't, calling Trump illegitimate.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Calling
President
Unnecessary
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I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Cutting
Debt
Depth
Ought
Talking
Thinking
United States Of America
Worry
Biggest
Truly
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I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there was classified information housed in a non-classified setting.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Action
Information
Office
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I'm not going to go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to, the president has a duty and obligation to comply with the law. But again he's exempt from almost all of these things.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Fishing
Law
President
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The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Accountability
Constitution
Constitution Of The United States
Defense
Deserve
Discipline
Limited Government
National Defense
Principles
Government People Deserve
American People
Blueprint
Fiscal
Limited
Strong National Defense
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I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for internal reform that is how we bring bills up, getting back to regular order, how we offer amendments or don't offer amendments.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Bills
Caucus
Political Spectrum
Spectrum
Amendment
Broad
Internal
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When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Basketball
Basketball Team
Madness
March
Maryland
Resolution
Brings
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If you saw General [James] Mattis and General [John] Kelly and Senator [Jeff] Sessions and Mr.[Rex] Tillerson and Congressman [Mike] Pompeo testify, you thought, look, this is a reasonable more than a reasonable, I would say, cabinet.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Cabinets
Looks
Saws
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CNN has given me a platform to share my experiences. My Web site, YouTube Channel and Facebook page have exposed me to thousands of voters who share my concerns. My lack of seniority has not impeded my ability to communicate in any way.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Cnn
Communicate
Exposed
Seniority
Site
Voters
Youtube
Channel
Concerns
Facebook
Page
Platform
Thousands
Web
Web Site
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There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Extraction
Gas
Alternative
Pursuing
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That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't even been sworn in yet. So, all this flailing about how he's done everything wrong it's a little premature at best.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Done
Law
President
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When you're on a football scholarship, you get a stipend that's supposed to cover your rent and a few incidentals. It was $360 a month. This was the late 1980s, and the NCAA has an interesting rule where you're not allowed to supplement your income with a part-time job.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Income
Ncaa
Part Time
Scholarship
Month
Cover
Rent
Supplement
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When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Appropriate
Compensation
Determine
Employee
Entity
Impact
Levels
Management
Rate
Turnover
Performance
Low
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I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Benghazi
Facility
Minimum
Personnel
Request
Standards
Unanswered
Consequently
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The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Allegations
Detention
Facility
Framework
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Irresponsible
National Security
President Obama
Rule Of Law
Soil
Bay
Injustices
Respects
Terrorists
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I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Fishing
Successful
Thinking
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My question is about the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Is he acting ethically when he sent out nine tweets praising Donald Trump saying that his plan was brilliant. How did he come to that conclusion? And how does come to his current conclusions having never done an investigation and never looked at the paperwork in the point where he can actually come to a reasonable conclusion?I think that's unethical.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Government
Office
Thinking
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The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
College
Team
Winning
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I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
Bridges
Inspire
Mean
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