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Darrell Issa: Therefore, I issued, if the ranking member were here, he would call it unilateral, but pursuant to the committee rules I…

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
Therefore, I issued, if the ranking member were here, he would call it unilateral, but pursuant to the committee rules I issued a subpoena and made it very clear that our first priority was to have all of Lois Lerner's emails, and that that was the priority.
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Darrell Issa
Republican · California

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Issa explains the urgency of obtaining Lois Lerner's emails for the investigation.

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