Darrell Issa

You know, there are two things that worry me around here. One of them is when a major piece of legislation or initiative is immediately bipartisan, I wonder, well, who is protecting the other side.

This is an agency that targeted conservatives for their political beliefs, that asked them for who their donors were and whether they said prayers at the beginning of an event.

So I am delighted, Ms. O'Connor, that you accepted our subpoena.

Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

Mr. Ferriero, Mr. Wester, I am even more delighted that you are partners in us trying to bring a level of accountability to the Federal Government.

I believe respect includes asking a question and then allowing a witness to fully answer the question and not cutting them off.

Because the American people right now do not believe or trust that, in fact, we are getting the honest answer from the IRS.

Lois Lerner has been referred for criminal charges, multiple criminal charges by the Ways and Means Committee and held in contempt by the full House.

I am confident that in fact competition from space becomes one of the competitions that hopefully this Committee will realize needs to be viable to maintain an antitrust environment.

The emails of a prominent official don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.

I think it is fair that we recognize that software moves on and that archiving in the digital age is not as easy as it might seem to the public.

Transparency clearly did not compel the IRS to tell the truth about Lois Lerner's lost emails.

I would certainly hope that when you go back and you scrub that $10 million in order to do X and more to do Y that you go back and you really ask, within the best practices, whether or not to meet--for your CIO to meet the requirement of…

One-point-eight billion dollars in IT is your budget--$1.8 billion. On $1.8 billion, isn't the retention of key documents that the American people need to count on, like whether or not they're being honestly treated by your employees…

Any email that existed anywhere, even any hard copy of official records that existed anywhere, has been or will be provided to this committee.

I hope you will continue your tenure at IRS to clean up what problems there are and to try to make the IRS a more accessible, more accountable, and more efficient agency on behalf of the U.S. taxpayers and this country.

I can testify I have seen no evidence of a crime.

The House of Representatives needs to begin making sure you are funded. And that is part of what we do in oversight, fund it to deal with ever-evolving technologies, where archiving isn't just putting them away, it is being able to…

So the American people should believe that if they don't have the resources to pay their taxes, they shouldn't pay their taxes, because if the IRS doesn't have the resources, it won't keep records.

Mr. Horsford was correct. I have been a big believer that, in fact, maintaining for the American people the transparency not just of what Mr. Cummings and I are doing here tonight but for the next generation, the generation beyond, as much…

Net neutrality doesn't exist. Net neutrality is a concept, isn't it?

I think you have given us the appropriate characterization of the true reason for net neutrality. You said it was social media policy, speech policy, political policy.

I believe there has been a strong case made in our investigation, a strong case made here today.

I have alleged in my opening statement that we have found a hostile work environment not just for the board, but for employees and investigators.

The absence of a privilege log is unacceptable anywhere in America.