"It is the considered opinion of this committee chair that we have an absolute right and obligation to investigate."
"There is no excuse, but there is also no repercussions."
"If we are going to look at civil service reform/unionization, isn't the model, to a certain extent, the apolitical organizations like the Army, the Navy, the Marines?"
"This committee has repeatedly seen that we give promotions to people who are negligent or outright criminal repeatedly."
"It makes no sense to have two systems like this."
"I wish that was so. That's not the report we got on a bipartisan basis less than 2 weeks ago."
"No, it is not appropriate to say spend all the money you can get."
"I am sorry to have to say this, but were our diplomats in Benghazi murdered because their building felt hostile in its context and didn't welcome the population there?"
"It would be counter to the investigation being done by TIGTA if we were to interview or even know the names."
"Our greatest desire, obviously, is to get to the bottom and the top of who Lois Lerner worked with as she was targeting and deliberately treating conservative groups because of their values in a diffe..."
"It certainly doesn't seem like a difficult or time-consuming act to give us the names of the people in the interrogatories."