So Mr. Koskinen was quoted last week as saying we have got systems that go back to the Kennedy Administration.

Well, do these cuts and reductions have an impact on productivity, customer service?

That is my right as a member of this committee, and I will not be silenced by deliberating trying to personalize it.

It makes for good television, and it riles up the base, and it probably raises money, but it is not worthy of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

We could reduce the debt over 10 years by $3 and a half trillion without raising anyone's taxes and without cutting any essential services.

We need the IRS. We need it to be functional.

I am tired of these hearings. I am tired of insinuation. I am tired, frankly, of what looks to a lot of people like demagoguery.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend from Massachusetts for his leadership. I want to say to my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), whom I respect and admire, this isn't like a simple, homespun, sit around the kitchen table and work this…

If Iran wants to take its place in the family of nations, if it wants to end its own self-inflicted isolation, it must account for Bob Levinson.

It is never okay for a U.S. citizen to be detained without charge, without explanation.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 1428) to extend Privacy Act remedies to citizens of certified states, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate…

With 63,000 people in the pipeline, 21,000-plus petitions, would they have scared off investors?

At the core of the House Judiciary Committee priorities are the fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed to Americans such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom from having the government…

I know you can't, because you never did the homework. You never did the work necessary to prove that this was a worthwhile undertaking.

Does the EPA not view the financial impact of the rules it inflicts upon America's farmers, and homeowners, and taxpayers, and small communities that dot the Shenandoah Valley in my district, do you not view that financial impact to be of…

But when you take the law into your own hands, and do it contrary to what the Clean Water Act provides, you get lawsuits, rather than progress.

Very troubling.

That must have been the most stunning call you ever got in your life.