I just want to take a moment to say to the IRS employees who are watching us, and to you, Mr. Koskinen, I just want to thank you for your service.

I want to revisit the findings of his report.

The IG found that there was 'ineffective management' at the IRS.

Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, this hearing has been very helpful in that I think we were able to, to some degree, focus on an IG report. The IG had nine recommendations and they have all been met.

I never heard the commissioner say that he was not going to obey the subpoena.

As I close, let me say this, Mr. Chairman. Again, these are independent agencies. Independent agencies could be required to do cost-benefit analysis without requiring rules to go through OMB. This bill allows the administrator of OIRA to…

So, therefore, Mr. Chairman, I will close. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, in closing, I want to go back to the legislative history of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, the law that would be amended by this…

I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clay), a distinguished member of the committee.

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 18 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 15 minutes remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Connolly The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 5. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 492, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr…

I am offering this amendment to strike section 5 of H.R. 899. My amendment would preserve the integrity of independent agencies. The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act currently exempts independent agencies. The bill we are considering would…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 234, noes 176, not voting 20, as follows: [Roll No. 90] AYES--234…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is a cornerstone of the Dodd-Frank Act, has already proven invaluable in ensuring that financial products offered to American consumers comply with federal law and are not abusive or…

I wanted to thank Chairman Issa and the sponsor of this bill, Chairman Lankford, for working with me to improve this legislation. I respect the sponsor's goal with his bill, which is to provide taxpayers more information about how their…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Issa for sponsoring this bill with me. This bill, if enacted, would be a landmark reform of our most important open government law, the Freedom of Information…

The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, FITARA, would make a number of improvements to the management and the acquisition of IT systems in the Federal Government. I think if we were to summarize what this bill does we…

And I am about to close. Again, I want to thank Chairman Issa for his hard work on this. This is so very, very important. I often tell my constituents, Mr. Speaker, that this is our watch. We are the guardians of the democracy today, and…

This is a little bit more than that, and we would not have that many people having left.

We cannot bring back those individuals who were killed, but hopefully we can put things in place.

Our work has the potential, and I do say the potential, to stand as an important part of this committee's legacy if we follow through on these efforts.

There is no doubt that we need to conduct a thorough--and when I say thorough, I mean thorough--investigation to determine how Aaron Alexis was able to obtain and keep a security clearance given his troubling background.

Well, but through its subsidiaries it has received over $2 billion from contracts from a dozen Federal agencies. That is pretty big to me, $2 billion. Would you agree that is pretty big for the Federal Government?

I think this is so very, very important.

It only takes a few, but the few can do mighty damage.