Paul Gosar

To correct the record, it was a male jaguar, not a female.

This proposed rule seeks to stifle economic development, harm grazing on over 15,000 acres in New Mexico, Colorado, and my home State of Arizona.

Such designations should be based on good science and effective conservations, which are both lacking with this designation.

I would like all the members of this panel to come back and answer that, post-operatively.

I mean, Davis-Bacon is riddled with fraud, right?

Well, I am going to stop you there because we have limited time.

I want to sponsor a bill that says if you are coming from trying to get a visa from a state sponsor of terrorists, then you shouldn't be able to get a visa here in the United States.

We need to be pushing this issue, and people engaged in this community, putting people back to work in an industry that is begging for it.

We need 100,000 acres by June 1 to make this thing work.

My State is absolutely furious and tired of being victims.

I differ a little bit with Congressman Labrador.

It seems when we come into the place of service, the head of the ATF, that it is dysfunctional at least when you start looking at the Phoenix office.

I understand these individuals have continued their employment with the Department of Justice despite the findings of the Inspector General's report.

Were there any terminations? For example, let's take one, William Newell. Were they then fired?

The lack of faith from the private sector or our constituents is that bureaucrats are not held to the same accountability.

Is it true the IRS has given the same documents to the White House and to Congress that had different redactions?

Since Lois Lerner didn't comply with our questions, we need all those emails.

It seems like more efficiently, from a director of your position, that you would direct employees to say let's start at the beginning.

If I am doing my job, I want to create a storyline to facilitate this oversight committee, true?

I want to do a diagnosis. I have a problem. I want to do a storyline, I want to figure out what the story is, right?

I actually put a bill called the IRS Anti-Abuse Act, which would make and codify political affiliation or ideology as a protected class in the IRS.

The DOJ was explicitly attempting to draw similarities between the IRS targeting of conservative groups to the House Oversight Committee targeting Federal employees.

I do not believe that she is the best fit to lead in this investigation and potentially embarrass her party or the man she wanted to be President.

Would the witnesses agree that the administration and the enforcement of the law should be done impartially and without regard to political affiliation?

Congress must ensure that the investigation into the targeting of these groups is being conducted in a thorough, timely, and appropriate fashion.