Mike Bishop: “I wholeheartedly agree with everyone in the room that the IRS is in dire need of reform.”

So it is the very threat of the DOJ, the heavy hand of government, to come in that could probably extract a better concession, a better settlement than you could in court.

DHS does have the discretion in the manner in which it chooses to fulfill the expressed will of Congress. It cannot, however, enact a program whereby it not only ignores the dictates of Congress, but actively moves to thwart them.

It causes me great anxiety to sit here and not hear someone, a public official, say we will not stand for lawlessness.

We just don't have that luxury. We have got to put this on the track and start it down the path as quickly as possible.