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Isn't it a fact that the Senate Finance Committee, the Department of Justice, and the Treasury Inspector General all investigated this alleged IRS scandal that is the subject of this hearing today and each one of those entities found that…
It's hard to understand nor can I definitively identify the motive. But I also think there is an underlying belief in the executive branch that the legislative branch isn't going to stand up for itself.
I think that goes back to 2011, if I recall, Dave Camp and the Ways and Means Committee.
He has the duty and obligation, a legal obligation, under a subpoena to comply with that subpoena.
The remedy given to us in the Constitution is impeachment.
The IRS targeting scandal was un-American. The IRS is the most powerful and feared entity in the United States.
This is really a simple case, in my mind. When Congress asks you a question, you're expected to give a truthful answer.
We have a very different experience with him. We can have our disagreements with him, but that doesn't mean that there's an impeachable offense.
Absolutely. I think that issue has been clearly documented.
Yeah, it does appear then that in the case of Lois Lerner that there was a concerted effort to target.
So until this body begins to incrementally assert itself with impeachment--acknowledge being the ultimate penalty.
Mr. Koskinen did not tell the truth to Congress.
The targeting of Americans, the suppression of their First Amendment rights is something I know in a bipartisan way we take very seriously.
For the most part, he's been very cooperative with us.
Damn it, do it, we cannot move forward with these bills until that has taken place, do it.
Settlements are basically preferable to litigation, and that it usually helps the taxpayer because it takes away burdensome liabilities.
The Chairman of this Committee, Rob Bishop, asked the current Interior Secretary and the former Attorney General last year to provide more information on future Indian water rights settlements