I think that Commissioner Koskinen has lied to the Congress repeatedly and he should be impeached and removed from office.

Is that a fair statement, that it was--would you call it persecution?

Mr. Koskinen should have articles of impeachment move forward against him.

They're going to potentially use that and infringe on American citizens' Fourth Amendment liberties.

Secondly, I think that Congress should consider repealing all general legislative authority delegated to Federal agencies.

I think you should abolish the Joint Committee on Taxation.

$385 billion that the--this is the fundamental mission of the Internal Revenue Service, is actually to collect the tax revenue due to the Federal Treasury.

It seems to me when we're talking about executive overreach, one of the things the legislative branch can do is impeach this guy.

And, finally, I would urge the Committee and the Congress to enact something that the Supreme Court said existed...

Here's the real scandal: The IRS systemically targeted conservatives for exercising their First Amendment political speech rights.

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.

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

I thank the gentleman for organizing this Special Order, but more importantly, for the fight that he has waged in holding the IRS accountable and for saying to the American taxpayer, the American people, when you have individuals running…

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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