His actions violated the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

We call you here and we're allowed to ask questions because the American people want to know why the Internal Revenue Service violated their fundamental rights.

I wanted to talk about the IRS targeting of conservative groups and, frankly, the pattern of deception and delay that we've seen from this administration.

So you told Mr. Chaffetz, yes, we'll give us all--give you all her emails.

One conversation with an IT guy, and he writes the U.S. Congress and tells the American people: We've lost Lois Lerner's emails.

You don't think you misled them?

Will you admit that you misled the Congress and the American people?

Just yesterday in The Hill, front page, Feds won't release IRS targeting documents.

the American people are frustrated and mad about what the IRS did to them regarding their First Amendment free speech rights.

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

And we still haven't got the truth, as evidenced by the headline yesterday, Mr. Koskinen.

So the word 'confirmed' is based on one conversation you had with IT people. Is that what you're saying?

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

That's the point, and that's something you've got to understand.

We subpoenaed you for all of Lois Lerner's emails.

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

We should stand firm on the legislation we passed.

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

The subpoena was a year and a half ago.

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

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.

It is not going to fly, Mr. Rubin.

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