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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on June 28, 2017, 04:10:40 PM
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Via CBS:
Outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has signed on with Fox News as a contributor, effective one day after he resigns from Congress this week.
The 50-year-old Chaffetz had left the possibility of a contract with Fox open to speculation, and his decision not to finish his current term fueled speculation about the reasons behind his abrupt departure.
“For those that would speculate otherwise, let me be clear that I have no ulterior motives,” he said in Facebook post first announcing his decision not to seek re-election. “I am healthy. I am confident I would continue to be re-elected by large margins.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-signs-outgoing-gop-congressman-jason-chaffetz-as-contributor/
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by Josh Siegel | Jun 28, 2017
Retiring Rep. Jason Chaffetz says money helped fuel decision to leave Congress
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who resigns from Congress at the end of the week, said money played a part in his decision to retire.
"I mean, look, we're paid a very handsome salary, but our home is in Utah. I didn't move to Washington, D.C. I sleep in a cot in my office," Chaffetz, R-Utah, said on Fox News Wednesday night.
"And faced with another 100 to 200 nights a year where my wife's by herself in Utah and I'm in a cot in Washington, D.C. – as nice as the salary is — I can't afford to have two places and have a quality of life I'd like to have at this point," he said, adding that serving in Congress is a "rich man's game."
Chaffetz signed a contract this week with Fox News to be a political analyst.
On Monday, he told The Hill that members of the House and Senate should receive a $2,500 monthly housing allowance.
"Washington, D.C., is one of the most expensive places in the world, and I flat-out can't afford a mortgage in Utah, kids in college and a second place here in Washington, D.C.," Chaffetz said in the interview with The Hill. "I think a $2,500 housing allowance would be appropriate and a real help to have at least a decent quality of life in Washington if you're going to expect people to spend hundreds of nights a year here."
Members of Congress get paid $174,000 per year.
Chaffetz was the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Congress. He recently stepped aside, and South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy took his place.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/retiring-rep-jason-chaffetz-says-money-helped-fuel-decision-to-leave-congress/article/2627402
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No. Just No.
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I've lived in Utah and I know how reasonable the cost of living is in that place. Maybe, just maybe, Jason, if your kids put themselves through college, or if they went to a trade school instead of college, or if your wife went to work, or if your home wasn't the f'n Taj Mahal, maybe you wouldn't have to sleep on a cot in your office.
**** you and your $2,500 housing allowance. You and your ilk ain't worth it.
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I've lived in Utah and I know how reasonable the cost of living is in that place. Maybe, just maybe, Jason, if your kids put themselves through college, or if they went to a trade school instead of college, or if your wife went to work, or if your home wasn't the f'n Taj Mahal, maybe you wouldn't have to sleep on a cot in your office.
**** you and your $2,500 housing allowance. You and your ilk ain't worth it.
Are you suggesting that Congresspersons should use a budget, like just about every other family in America? Instead of just appropriating themselves money taken under threat of force from the taxpayer?
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Are you suggesting that Congresspersons should use a budget, like just about every other family in America? Instead of just appropriating themselves money taken under threat of force from the taxpayer?
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