I know a lot has been said about what Thomas Cain said. Well, last week Thomas Cain told our staffs that the IRS always intended to alert us about Ms. Lerner's lost emails.

Not one of the witnesses we interviewed, including senior officials at the IRS, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department identified any White House role in this process.

For more than a year, Republicans have claimed that the White House directed the IRS to target conservative groups.

We have a duty to preserve this democracy that we inherited when we came upon this earth.

It is time for this committee to stop serving as the center stage for political theater and fulfill its responsibilities under the Constitution.

the public needs to know that our staffs met with the White House for 75 minutes

I want to thank Chairman Darrell Issa for introducing this bill. I am happy to be an original cosponsor of the Federal Register Modernization Act. This is a good government bill that will reduce waste and save taxpayers money. This bill is…

Again, I want to thank Chairman Issa for all of his support. We couldn't have done it without him and his hard work on this issue. There is something that we are clearly bipartisan on, and that is making sure that whistleblowers are…

I am pleased to join my colleagues in the consideration of H.R. 3027, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in Prescott, Arizona, as the Barry M. Goldwater Post Office. I…

I am very pleased to join my colleagues in the consideration of H.R. 3534, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 113 West Michigan Avenue in Jackson, Michigan, as the Officer James Bonneau Memorial…

With that, I urge all of our Members to vote in favor of this very important legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

With that, I urge all Members to vote in favor of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The time for our Nation to take action on climate change is right now; not tomorrow, not next week, but now.

Today's hearing is not about policy. Today's hearing is not about policy or substance. It's about politics and press.

Representative Henry Waxman, our former chairman, engaged in a constructive effort to find solutions to these challenges.

the President also directed the Archivist and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to craft a modernized framework.

I look forward to hearing a status report on these efforts.

I care about your reputation. I care about what people think of you.

We're better than that. We are a better country than that. And we are a better committee than that.

I believe our committee's work should be a responsible effort to obtain the facts and a responsible effort to find the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Rather than continuing on this path, I sincerely hope that we will turn to constructive legislation with concrete solutions to help Federal agencies run more effectively and efficiently.

I would mourn for what could have been.

I hope we can all agree that the Chemical Safety Board plays a very important role in investigating chemical accidents.

When I hire people, I hire the brightest and I hire people with compassion, and then I let them do their job.

I am proud to say today that we are doing better. More than 8 million people have now enrolled in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.