mr. chaffetz: mr. speaker, i urge the passage and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 73. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? mr. chaffetz: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 70, the federal advisory committee act amendments of 2017, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 70, a bill to amend the federal advisory committee act to increase the transparency of federal advisory committees, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah is advised there is no amended text at the esk. - no amendments -- there is no amended text

mr. chaffetz: we have no additional speakers. but i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. johnson: i yield back. the chair: the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. chaffetz: i thank my colleague from georgia and i know he is opposed to the bill. it is reasonable to give a time frame as to when they are to issue this. i think it is reasonable. to the gentleman's point about the staffing, we don't give into that granular detail here but left to the office of management and budget. those decisions have been made by the obama administration. they will need to take into account the staffing levels and how o.m.b. will determine whether they need more or less staff. but i would support the idea if they are overwhelmed with issues, let's make sure they are properly staffed. this is an important agency. we have to make sure they are functioning properly and supportive of that. it's reasonable to offer that time line and i appreciate the support

mr. chaffetz is unwilling to have.happy with michael pence as president. >> it may take time for that. i do have a question on obamacare. they got the first votes. basically saying, let's move the debate. you have a fair amount of nervousness among republicans on capitol hill about what to do going forward. and some fears that if they repeal without having a full replacement in place, they could own what would be a difficult issue. >> the repealing and replacing of obamacare is complicated. it's what a white house and congressional leadership. a serious white house and serious congressional leadership should meet on and work on. i think that's what -- one of the things that is alarming to me. trump, and i think trump supporters seem to believe, he won, huge upset, full credit to him. has the wind at his back. republicans on the hill want him to succeed. obviously. they're deferring to him more than they deep down in private want to. they'll defer to him publicly for awhile. i think that will run out faster than people

mr. chaffetz, is doing is wrong.wants to have a secret star chamber style tribunal to hear privately from schaub. the democrats are saying, why can't we have a public hearing, which would be the normal way to do these things. we're not in the middle ages here where we haul people in that way. and he's prejudged. he hasn't heard what schaub's reasoning is. and mr. chaffetz is blessing the trump plan. john, it's not just me saying this, but the republican bush ethics czar, mr. painter, a distinguished american scholar, says the same thing. it's outrageous. >> i should say, elijah cummings, the democrat who sits on the house oversight committee, contacted me over the break to say he is calling for this hearing to be is the president-elect's plan to separate his business the type of thing you would like to see as the subject of a hearing from the oversight committee. >> of course. the oversight committee should have a hearing about the war on ethics. first, the house republicans made a sneak attack over the weekend. a ho

mr. chaffetz should be investigating the pending violation of the constitution, not this poor official thatried to do his job. >> let's take that question to him. thank you both very much. congressman chaffetz joins us. what is thes on to the question? >> the president-elect has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. he's except from most all of these laws. he has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the office of government ethics opinion i think he's done that twice. that is his duty turpd law. i hear no complaints about that. my question is about the head 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 he 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 is unethical. >> he was sending the tweets to the idea that he had heard. you are right. he was premature that he heard donald trump would dwivest.

mr. chaffetz: mr. speaker, i want to thank mr. moulton, first and foremost, for his service to our country, serving in the armed services. we really do appreciate that. can't thank him enough for that service. but also appreciate him bringing forward this bill. his working with mr. hurd of texas, mr. meadows of north rolina, i appreciate mr. desauliner and what mr. cummings have done, too, to help move this bill forward. good broad bipartisan support, strong support in the 114th congress, passing unanimously with 414 votes. i think it's worthy to bring this up early in the congress and the idea of saving money and taking advantage of technology, as mr. hurd said and mr. moulton talked about as well, save some money and tap into the technology into is available to save money for the government and ultimately for the taxpayers. it is their money indeed. i'd urge its passage and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 274. those in favor say aye. as amended. thos

mr. chaffetz's attempt to bully mr. shaub out of doing his job are absolutely despicable."joining me now, senator jeff merckly from oregon, do you share chuck schumer's assessment? >> this is a crazy situation. first the house tries to get rid of the office on day one then they attack the independent office of government ethics charged with making sure the conflicts of interests are eliminated for the president and people who are nominated for cabinet posts. boy the president himself held a press conference to say how much he was doing and it turned out his plan was as phony as his photo problems. he had these folders piled up saying "these are the contracts i'm going to divest" but they wouldn't let the reporters look at them because they had blank paper in them and the plan was to put his sons in control of the business. does not eliminate the conflicts of interest. >> here's my question at a brass tacks level. the office of government ethics is an independent body. a fixed i believe five year term, the head of that walter shaub. what does the senate or congress do when d

mr. chaffetz. thank you for coming back. is the probe over for hillary clinton? >> we never specifically were probing just hillary clinton but the mess she created at the state department. i would remind people the state department itself still has an open investigation. one of the things we need help from the trump administration is to get all the documents that we need in order to come to this conclusion. state department, the f.b.i., the department of justice, the veterans administration, the i.r.s. where we have investigations open. they've been slow walking it. if they think they'll get away with it by running out a clock and change in administration they have another think coming from the house of representatives. >> bill: from that answer the probe is not over, then, or probes as you describe them then. >> yeah, look. it's about justice not any one particular person. the house has a lot of equities in this that we want to see and that's what this committee has done since 1814. let up on the pedal. it didn't start because of a political election and it won'

mr. schaub, jason chaffetz and the house said he will have to justify and explain ethics laws. is he going that. >> chaffetz indicated he will have to come in for a private interrogation. i believe the democrats in congress have objected to that kind of forum. it looks to some of us like the republicans are trying to -- or chaffetz any way is trying to intimidate or retaliate against schaub for doing his job, announcing what the public -- what president elect trump needs to do. >> we can at minimum thank jason chaffetz for helping us keep a focus going forward on donald trump's conflicts of interest because what he's doing will actually help us do that. kathleen clark, professor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, $1 from you to the kind fund does the same work of $1 from a celebrity. we got $1,000 on monday night at the golden globes. wait until you see that. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. you fou

mr. trump strong arm members of congress like jason chaffetz to investigate voter fraud?fter all, they're investigating the russian hacking, the senate is at least. why wouldn't they also investigate voter fraud? >> i think think, carol, republicans on capitol hill don't want to be talking about voter fraud, as paul ryan and mitch mcconnell were saying, they want to change the policies of the last eight years, that's their focus. they think voter fraud and crowd sizes and talking about torture is a distraction from talking about health care and tax reform. they want to focus on policy. but as paul ryan said, this is going to be an unconventional president. they don't know what the next thing that donald trump is going to tweet. and they're going to have to dean wi deal with it. >> i have to leave it there, thanks to all of you. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" after a break. microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight disease. there are over 100 million pieces of dna in every sample. with the microsoft cloud, we ca

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