Political Quotes

“I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to refer. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Cummings moves to refer the resolution H. Res. 574 to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with instructions that the Committee carry out the following: (1) Conduct a bipartisan public hearing with testimony from legal and constitutional experts on whether Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights when she professed her innocence during a hearing before the Committee on May 22, 2013, and whether Chairman Darrell E. Issa complied with the procedures required by the Constitution to hold Ms. Lerner in contempt. (2) As part of that public hearing and in relationship to Ms. Lerner's profession of innocence in her testimony before the Committee, consider and release publicly the full transcripts of the following 39 interviews conducted by Committee staff of employees of the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury, who discussed the actions that occurred within the Exempt Organizations Division that Ms. Lerner supervised and who identified no White House involvement or political motivation in the screening of tax exempt applicants, with appropriate redactions as determined by Chairman Darrell E. Issa in consultation with Ranking Minority Member Elijah E. Cummings: (A) Screening Agent, Exempt Organizations, Determinations Unit, Internal Revenue Service (May 30, 2013).…”