Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy IIIis an American attorney, politician and former prosecutor. He currently serves as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party. His district includes much of the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville and Spartanburg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
bad-ass media liberty
Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.
bad-ass law memos
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
bad-ass president letters
What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?
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She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.
bad-ass government want
The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.
bad-ass law president
You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?
bad-ass numbers republican
I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.
columbia
I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.
bad-ass remedy recourse
What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?
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October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
jury summoned
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
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The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
impacts people positions trust
When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.
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Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.