Jim Jordan

To me, that is almost laughable. Over half have already failed. We know the other 11 are going to fail.

Hopeful is probably an understatement, wouldn't you say, Mr. Esquea, based on the history?

Homeland Security has perfected the art of stonewalling.

Is focused on something that I think potentially can harm taxpayers, harm their most fundamental liberties.

The failure of the IRS to implement all their recommendations.

And obviously all the Americans who pay their taxes would expect that all the revenue should be generated and that they would get the type of service that, you know, they need or expect from their government.

In America you cannot discriminate against an innocent unborn child by subjecting them to an abortion based on their race or sex.

This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. This is a classic example of what happens when you get a bunch of politicians together and think they are smarter than the marketplace.

A few years ago, politicians get together and they decide they are going to determine what levels of ethanol should be put into the market.

Imagine what a President Trump is going to do with the precedent that this President has set forth.

I hope that they are consistent when a President Trump does the same thing that a President Obama does.

It shocks me every single time we have one of these hearings and I don't hear a single Democrat go after the President for his executive overreach.

For the fact that--this would seem to be something that you would be jumping, kicking, and screaming and, you know, making all kinds of noise about that 35 percent of the time they are not doing what they are supposed to do, and it is the…

But judicial deference under Chevron weakens the separation of powers, threatening liberty.

And I need to remind you EPA had nothing at all to do with that.

Yes, it seems to me at a minimum you need a probable cause warrant before you can do this.

The Internal Revenue Service, for a sustained period of time, systematically targeted Americans who were exercising their First Amendment liberties.

But we are the Congress of the United States. We are an entity that it is kind of important to know about this as well.

But our job is to stand up and represent the citizens of the country who want to know that information.

Lois Lerner's now famous speech, May 10th, 2013, where she goes to the Bar Association, lies to the American people, says it was not us, it was just those folks in Cincinnati.

In other words, retain everything.

Do not reuse, or refresh, or wipe information from any personal computer that is being reclaimed, returned, refreshed, updated from any employee or contractor of the IRS.

He waits 2 months before he tells Congress and the American people, and, more importantly, under his watch, 422 backup tapes are destroyed after there are three preservation orders.

23 hearings is a pretty small price to pay when you are trying to protect fundamental liberties in the Constitution, for goodness sake.

We are not trying to get the IRS. The IRS is trying to get conservative Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment free speech rights.