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

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.

I join my colleagues from Ohio and across the nation in paying tribute to former Congressman Michael G. Oxley, who passed away at the beginning of the year after a long battle against lung cancer. I thank my colleague from Cincinnati, Mr…

Normally, I don't have prepared remarks when I come to the floor, but I thought when you are honoring someone like former Congressman Oxley, it is best to have them in written form. Mr. Speaker, I join my colleagues from Ohio and across…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Government broke it; government must fix it.

Governor Snyder should have to answer for his decisions.

If we act selectively for political reasons, then we become a part of the problem.

You do not represent the American people. We are the only ones elected to represent the American people.

I have a very great interest in the rules-making process.

Now, we have heard that for 3-1/2 years.

you have got to understand why it is frustrating to have documents that we have been told we will receive piecemealed out.

Do you plan on giving us the documents or are you going to come talk to us and say you are still not going to get them to us and we need to talk more?

the further you get outside of this Beltway... the more frustration there is that the people have lost control.

Can you tell me who at the IRS was exercising that poor judgment?

Did you tell the White House before the October 23 letter came to the chairman saying no one was going to be prosecuted?

But you can give us something and you haven't given us anything. That is the point.

The lady who started the organization True the Vote, the lady who was audited both personally and her business by the IRS, was visited by the EPA, the ATF, the FBI, and OSHA, all while she was simply trying to clean up voter registration…

So it could be much higher than 113?

But do we know a number?