On the recordMay 7, 2014
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me just, in response to the ranking member, it is not 39 interviews; it is 40. We just did another one yesterday, and that is going to lead to another one because we learned information in that interview yesterday. The minority staff has released parts of every single one of those depositions. We will release them all when we hear from Lois Lerner. We want to get to the truth. That is what this resolution is all about. Here is what we did learn yesterday. In the 40th, Richard Pilger, from the Department of Justice said this: In the fall of 2010, at the direction of the chief of the Public Integrity Section, Jack Smith, I contacted Lois Lerner at the IRS. So we know now Justice and the IRS were working together back in 2010, all the more reason why we need to hear from Lois Lerner; and the only way to make that happen, the only way to get to the truth is through the House of Representatives using every tool we have to compel Ms. Lerner to come talk to us because we know the fix is in with the Justice Department's investigation. The fix is in. We all know that. The only route to the truth on something as fundamental as your free speech rights--First Amendment rights to exercise speech in a political fashion--is through the House of Representatives.
