Jim Jordan

The White House and the Treasury already knew it was going on.

Lois Lerner told this committee staff that there was no targeting going on. Turned out to be a lie, of course.

This is a pattern. The executive branch agencies, first they drag their feet, they don't comply with things Congress wants.

The U.S. House held Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted, with 26 Democrats I might add, voted to call for a special prosecutor

We should stand firm on the legislation we passed.

Two of those were while he was candidate Obama. The other 20 were while he was President Obama.

How can we test the claim when you won't give us what the statute requires?

You should have a file already, with everything nicely and neatly organized.

It is my understanding we don't.

The subpoena was August 2013. We are not talking a couple months ago. We are talking a year and a half ago.

You can't claim, oh, this was the independent, be-all, end-all, definitive statement that the ARB made on Benghazi, and then not let us see the record.

I don't know anywhere else in life where a potential subject of an investigation gets to pick their investigators.

Now, the one thing they have said that makes some sense is the pace is way too slow.

Democrats asked for no hearings in August and October, and now they complain.

We ought to be part of the discussions about who we are subpoenaing.

It will be a meaningless failure. Because if we don't produce a bipartisan report at the end of the day, it will have no credibility.

The subpoena was a year and a half ago.

It is not going to fly, Mr. Rubin.

You are saying you don't know. I got that answer.

Many point to violence in Central America as the reason for the surge. Unfortunately, as we all know, there has always been violence in Central America.

The President's November 20 actions to grant deferred action on work permits to up to 5 million illegal aliens continued a long pattern of Executive overreach.

The President's policies to grant deferred action and not remove newly arriving undocumented aliens led to a surge of illegal immigration that reached its height earlier this year.

In our constitutional system, however, it is Congress that has plenary constitutional authority to establish U.S. immigration policy.

Clear back in 1999, Secretary Albright said the same thing.