Executive over-reach has become the hallmark of this Administration, and will be part of its legacy.

I spoke earlier about the precedent of the House, which has always provided some basic due process to an accused official.

In 2015, the inspector general released a report that concluded no evidence was uncovered that any IRS employees had been directed to destroy or hide information from the Congress.

The head of the IRS ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could review them.

Of course you didn't. According to PolitiFact, there is no, zero evidence to support this claim.

the effort to impeach Commissioner Koskinen is destined to fail on both the merits and as a matter of process.

the commissioner's critics simply have not proved their case.

I mean, you and I are old enough to remember--I am older than you, but--that when they were going after the mafia in New York, the FBI and the NYPD were in the Italian American community, not because they didn't trust Italian Americans…

We shouldn't ban them all. Just like we wouldn't ban all the Skittles because there might be one bad Skittle.

I just wanted to get that on the record because of many of the unfair allegations that have been made against the NYPD over the years from certain organizations and from the media.

I want to thank all the witnesses for their testimony.

This Administration seems to have set a record for the number of agency heads who have wrongly deleted work-related emails.

The Internal Revenue Service targeted organizations solely on the basis of their conservative views.

Clinging fearlessly to my job and title for a few more weeks, I thank the chairman.

This regulatory scheme is an attempt to accomplish something Congress specifically chose not to do.

The administration is not allowed to rewrite law.

Everybody in the chain of command is gone. Are there any remaining culprits within the IRS today?

There are some of us who feel like that is in fact what is happening here with this administration.