Jason Chaffetz
Jason Chaffetz
Jason E. Chaffetzis the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district, first elected in 2008. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is also the chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.
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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.
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Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.
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In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.
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The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
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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.
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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.
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There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.
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When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
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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.
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While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
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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.
It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.