Peter Roskam

The IRS grabbed these taxpayers by their throat and squeezed them and squeezed them and squeezed them without mercy and nearly ruined them and made their lives miserable.

Without any question, there is nobody on this panel that is going to quarrel with the use of government power to disrupt criminal enterprises.

So you can understand then how somebody feels fundamentally different about an IRS inquiry that looks and feels different.

But to that point, I mean, the audit is for a discrete period of time, isn't it?

We are simply saying that we are not going to go after an asset seizure if there is no indication of illegal activity.

I am committed to working with you and others to make this right.

Oh, when it is characterized as a phony scandal, that is dismissive.

What have you done to prevent a Lois Lerner 2.0 situation?

You can walk and chew gum at the same time.

You are the government guy. You are standing up for 'top people.' You have to bring your game.

Instead of getting that support, their deaths are being used as a partisan attack on President Obama.

This is selective leaking of information.

You are never going to get all of the answers. You are never going to get all of the documents.

The killing of four American patriots in Benghazi last month was an act of terror.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador, thanks for what you are doing for our country.

We all need to realize the brightness of this moment. So I respect my colleague and his differences. I respect the other side and their differences. I think we need to go back to Thomas Jefferson, who said this, Mr. Chairman. Jefferson…

I am committed to keeping our people as safe as possible.

The foreign policy imperatives of why we need to be there mean that we are going to take reasonable levels of risk.

We have to be able to make decisions to progress.

I ask you to revisit this. I ask you to reconsider this.

I don't think there is anything confusing about this.

This is not one recommendation.

What is different than the reasoning that you just articulated to me just now from the reasoning that put us in Benghazi and that allowed four people to be killed?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Imagine that sense when you get the word that a new baby has been diagnosed with something that was completely unanticipated. That has been a situation that has been present in the lives of constituents…

Every Foreign Service Officer must understand that they have a role in their own security. I agree with that wholeheartedly.