"successful impeachments are bipartisan efforts, and partisan attacks cloaked in the impeachment process are doomed from the start."
"the effort to impeach Commissioner Koskinen is destined to fail on both the merits and as a matter of process."
"the commissioner's critics simply have not proved their case."
"The head of the IRS ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could review them."
"Of course you didn't. According to PolitiFact, there is no, zero evidence to support this claim."
"In 2015, the inspector general released a report that concluded no evidence was uncovered that any IRS employees had been directed to destroy or hide information from the Congress."
"I spoke earlier about the precedent of the House, which has always provided some basic due process to an accused official."
"I'm deeply disappointed we are wasting our time on our limited time that we have in this Congress, in this Committee on this hearing."
"We should be focused on restoring voting rights."
"There's so many matters that we have to come forth and could come forth in this Subcommittee, but we're not dealing with them."
"I feel that it does raise State sovereignty concerns in a very significant way."
"We ought to be dealing with voting rights and due process and death, and that is what we ought to be instead of trying to pick a partisan fight with the Administration."