Jason Chaffetz
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.
High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.
I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.
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.
We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.
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.
The White House and the president [Donald Trump] himself remains very worrisome, alarming, almost.Collection: White
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.Collection: Fishing
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Law
I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Office
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.Collection: Honor
Until we see something that is actually wrongdoing, we're probably not going to go on a fishing trip to go see look at.Collection: Fishing
[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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Successful
What you need to look at is what is required by law, which I believe that Donald Trump has complied with.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Law
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.Collection: Taxes
If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Team
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.Collection: Hero
[John Lewis] really created something that - that he didn't need toCollection: Needs
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: President
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.Collection: Believe