Mark Meadows

No matter how beautiful the strategy, we must occasionally look at the results.

The next time I don't want to have 90 percent of the comments coming back negative.

We need to know what the performance matrices are and how we know when we are doing a great job, a good job, a mediocre job, and a poor job.

I don't want to make a request that is too difficult, okay? All right. So we are going to do that.

We need to know the matrix for what performance, good performance, excellence performance, and poor performance is going to be for your senior management.

The American people said if you lose over $3 billion, they would think that you should get a zero performance bonus.

How do we fix this problem where I am not coming back here with unbelievable billions of dollars?

We can compel you to answer the questions.

So why did you get a bonus then paid to you based on these what I would call abysmal results?

Shouldn't he have some I guess responsibility to come before Congress and help us understand why the record is so deplorable?

Don't you think Mr. Runcie could have illuminated some of the questions that you have been unable to answer today?

Senator Sanders brings a different element to a very important topic that we must fix on behalf of the Federal workers.

I expressed in no uncertain terms that this hearing would not be political.

Let's not make this political.

I think it is a jump, a logical fallacy. I mean, I'll just speak bluntly. I think that's a logical fallacy.

If a rabbi with a tax-exempt status starts to get involved in any political discussions that may not have to do with marriage or life, but let's say it gets involved in Palestinian versus Jewish, or who should be a leader, or that we…

What we want them to be able to do is have the ability--and I think you and I agree on this--to have the ability of free speech, direct from the pulpit, without fear of retribution or losing their tax-exempt status.

Some have suggested that I'm so pro-Israel that I make Bibi Netanyahu look moderate.

I would suggest that those political interventions, maybe before we had the IRS, the long arm of the IRS reaching into Ms. Engelbrecht and others--but did they not--the clergy was not without a voice from the very founding of this…

It's about making sure that the churches have no voice at all.

So this whole narrative that talks about dark money going to churches in order to actually support candidates that may or may not be there is not only a red herring, but it is a red herring of unbelievable crimson red.

I couldn't disagree more with the ranking member in terms of the intent.

Do you not see a problem with that?

Where is the outrage? Where is the outrage, Mr. Gray? Are you not outraged?

So, again, I am pretty sure I will be back, but I just want to make sure--that should be the takeaway from today is seize this opportunity.