washington<u+2014>house oversight and government reform committee chairman jason chaffetz (r., utah) said he would continue to focus on hillary clinton <u+2019>s email practices from her time as secretary of state, although she last week lost the presidential election to donald trump. <u+201c>task number one is to get what are literally tens of thousands of documents out of the state department,<u+201d> mr. chaffetz said on monday. <u+201c>the administration has given us a stiff arm for years, and hopefully now it will get loosened up.<u+201d> the state department is in the process of releasing several thousand emails forensically recovered by the federal bureau of investigation from mrs. clinton<u+2019>s time heading the agency. mr. chaffetz<u+2019>s comments contrast with the position taken by house majority leader kevin mccarthy (r., calif.), who said over the weekend that he was setting an agenda for the republican party focused on repealing the affordable care act, replacing jobs, and boosting investment in infrastructure. speaking on fox news about investigating mrs. clinton, he said <u+201c>i leave that portion to law enforcement. that<u+2019>s just the way i do it. keep politics out of it.<u+201d> brian fallon, a spokesman for mrs. clinton, declined to comment other than to note that mr. mccarthy had ruled out continuing such investigations into mrs. clinton. democrats have moved on, and are now focused on mr. trump<u+2019>s business holdings, with rep. elijah cummings (d., md.), the top democrat on mr. chaffetz<u+2019>s panel, calling for a review of mr. trump<u+2019>s investments to ensure the president-elect doesn<u+2019>t have any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m happy to look at any letter that the democrats send,<u+201d> mr. chaffetz said, adding he would need to see some type of connection between mr. trump<u+2019>s investments and the federal government. <u+201c>there needs to be a federal nexus,<u+201d> mr. chaffetz said. <u+201c>his past business dealings didn<u+2019>t necessarily have a federal nexus.<u+201d> mr. trump does business with the federal government. most prominently, he has a lease with the u.s. for the federal building he developed into a hotel on pennsylvania avenue in washington. his businesses would also be directly affected by tax and immigration policies. asked about mr. trump<u+2019>s campaign-trail promise to appoint a special prosecutor to prove mrs. clinton, mr. chaffetz said that he communicated with reince priebus, who was picked to be mr. trump<u+2019>s new chief of staff, last night and that the trump administration still needed to fill positions before addressing such questions. <u+201c>i look forward to having a discussion with whoever they appoint in the administration,<u+201d> he said. <u+2014>richard rubin contributed to this article. write to siobhan hughes at siobhan.hughes@wsj.com
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