If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?
Trey GowdyMembers of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.
Trey GowdyYour memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
Trey GowdyThe president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
Trey GowdyEven someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
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