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.

Excluded from the $681 billion cap were Social Security Medicare veterans programs and interest payments. After the nearly 1200 3rd District delegates were elected on March 25 2008 Chaffetz sent a mailer telling delegates he would run a different kind of campaign. ”
Chaffetz himself has been criticized for politicizing the Benghazi incident acknowledging in an interview with CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security" and that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

He is a member of the Republican Party. S.