Jim Jordan

This is not true. The FBI found 110 emails in 52 email chains containing classified information at the time they were sent or received.

While Director Comey may have refused to criminally indict Hillary Clinton, his public pronouncement and subsequent congressional testimony is nonetheless a public indictment of her conduct and character.

They informed the White House, they informed the Department of Treasury, but they did not inform the Congress.

Clearly, these effects can be brought about in a way not intended by the criminal law.

The purpose of impeachment is not personal punishment.

When you provide false testimony to Congress, is that or is that not a crime?

The underlying offense here was the most egregious thing you can do--going after peoples' political free speech rights.

Legislative Branch rights have been trampled--and Mr. Turley pointed a great fact.

The IRS targeted people for their political beliefs. They got caught.

They went after peoples' First Amendment, free speech, political speech.

This is probably the one agency that the American people have to deal with more than any other.

The duplicity and inconsistency from Mr. Nadler is stunning.

That seems to be helping that individual who was in the system get to a better position in life, and just as importantly, help treat taxpayers with the respect they deserve so someone is not living off their tax dollars who is able-bodied.

I am asking you about Maine because Maine has done it. That is the one experiment we have that I think is working win-win-win.

But they did get a job so that is a good thing and they are no longer living off the taxpayer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for having this hearing and for our witnesses and the chairman for his work in this area, extensive work in this area.

The Internal Revenue Service, and the power that it has over American citizens' lives, systematically targeted fellow citizens for their political beliefs.

If a taxpayer destroyed documents subject to a summons by the IRS, the taxpayer would be in a world of hurt.

The American people had a right to get the facts regarding the IRS targeting, and the IRS had a duty to comply with the congressional investigation.

Is it acceptable for the head of one of the most powerful agencies in government to operate under a lower standard of conduct than that which is applied to the taxpayers?

This sorry train of false statements and dereliction of duty represents an affront to the authority of this House.

The EPA is one of the most toxic places in the Federal Government to work.

At some point Congress is going to have to stick up for itself.

Lack of transparency is a political advantage.

At a minimum, Congress should do everything in its power to ensure that Iran receives no new sanctions relief in the absence of significant new Iranian concessions.