Conservatives Push Legislation to End the Bureau of Land Management's Reign of Terror!

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has put forth a piece of legislation that would "terminate the law enforcement functions of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and to provide block grants to States for the enforcement of Federal law on Federal land under the jurisdiction of these agencies, and for other purposes." --HR 4751 is titled "Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act." The bill does the following... Read more at Eagle Rising Read More......

Another Secret Service Scandal — This One’s Not Just About Sex or Drugs

Let’s not shy away from what the Secret Service actually was up to in the matter of its illegal spying on Representative Jason Chaffetz: conspiracy to commit blackmail against a member of Congress. --Representative Chaffetz has been investigating the scandal-plagued protective agency — the habitual drunkenness and whoring of its agents, among other things — when Secret Service personnel improperly accessed his protected records in a hunt for dirt. The aim of this was made clear by assistant director Ed Lowery, who wrote to assistant director Faron Paramore: “Some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out.”

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GOP reinstates punished lawmaker

Facing enormous blowback, Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Thursday reversed course and said he was reinstating Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) as a subcommittee chairman. Chaffetz stripped Meadows of his subcommittee gavel last week after the congressman joined nearly three dozen other conservatives in voting against leadership on a procedural motion that nearly scuttled a major trade package.

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Chaffetz: State Department Hiding Benghazi Survivors

"Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he has been 'thwarted' by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there were Americans who survived the Benghazi attack, some of whom were badly injured and are still recovering." Read more at Breitbart/Big Peace...

 Rep. Chaffetz is a member of Congress, and Chair of a foreign relations and national security subcommittee. Read More......