Jim Jordan

I join with the chairman in reiterating that we need a special prosecutor because you are a political appointee...

I just find it amazing, and I know that Mr. Horsford has left and I am sorry he has left because he would get an opportunity, once again, to take the party line.

You say it is available publicly, but you don't get it publicly. You go get it from the IRS.

The Justice Department asked for information that you said is publicly available, but you go to Lois Lerner to get it.

We need to hold all wrongdoers accountable for the targeting of Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out in a political fashion.

My question is this: what more will it take for the administration to appoint a special counsel?

And then you have the President of the United States go on national television and say there is not a smidgen of corruption in the Internal Revenue Service.

Thirty-one days after this email happens, she goes to a Bar Association speech and blames some good public servants in Cincinnati, says that's where the problem is, lies to the American people.

We're all fine with that, but there is no reason we can't run our investigation at the same time he's running his.

We want this to happen this month.

We want certain people to come in front of this committee and elaborate on the fact that they've breached these three duties.

They had a duty to disclose once they knew that they didn't preserve and couldn't produce.

We want to get to the truth as quickly as possible.

They had a duty to preserve documents. We know they didn't do that.

They had a duty to produce the documents that we actually subpoenaed.

That's what just bothers every single American, Mr. Chairman.

What kind of investigation is going on when the FBI won't even talk to the head of the agency that has this kind of stuff going on with their email exchange and won't talk to the agency that lost key evidence in an investigation that's…

Here's the takeaway: Nine days after the IRS knows they're in trouble, Lois Lerner is trying to cover her tracks.

I want every single piece of correspondence Lois Lerner sent to anybody. We want all of them.

All I'm saying is there's no 6103 problem with these three, and we should've had them a long time ago.

Lois Lerner was not trying to destroy email.

So in the past four months.

Have you had conversations with the State Department about the Keystone pipeline?

And your comments were clear back in 2011.

But don't you have a critical part in the ultimate decision?