Rep. Jason Chaffetz is gunning hard for the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and trying to outwork his more senior opponents.
Reports Breitbart’s Jonathan Strong:
In his office in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) hands me a bookmark-sized card with a gold, embossed congressional seal and his name at the top. On it are the 24 current members of the GOP Steering Committee, the secretive panel of senior Republicans who will pick the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the closing weeks of 2014.
The card is a palpable symbol of Chaffetz’s bid for the chairmanship. The Utah Republican is gunning hard for the slot and trying to outwork his more senior rivals.
Unlike many of the lawmakers on the oversight panel who pine for “A committees” like Appropriations and Ways and Means, Chaffetz is perhaps the committee’s most devoted member.
“I’ve been focused, focused, focused on the committee,” he says. “Over the last three terms, that has been my sole focus. I’m the only one on the committee that probably selects it as their number one choice. I think focus helps determine reality.”
