Jason Chaffetz
Politician
1967-03-26
Books by Jason Chaffetz
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Obstruction
How the Democrats Abuse Congressional Rules and Committees to Block the Trump Agenda
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Quotes by Jason Chaffetz
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Straw purchasing is illegal.
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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.
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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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I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.
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High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
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Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.
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We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.
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