Are you familiar with the fact that the guys on the ground in Benghazi repeatedly asked for additional security and were repeatedly denied?

Maybe you should switch. Maybe you need to hire a few more people at a lower salary who are actually going to do the job and would not lose Lois Lerner's emails.

We now know that was not accurate.

They're not going to implement it. They're not going to implement it.

So, changing gears a little bit then, one of the other issues that we were very nervous about, brought to our attention a few months ago, was the fact that the Internal Revenue Service gave 21 disks of information to the FBI regarding the…

I want to know, what were those critical areas? Were you denied access to oversight work in critical areas?

I am particularly concerned about one issue that has been a focus of the Oversight Committee and some other Committees, and that is the targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of people exercising their First Amendment rights.

Now, when you have the ACLU, and the Tea Party, and home schoolers and Harley riders all against the same thing, you know that they--this is unbelievable.

It's those four key facts that underscore and warrant and cry out for a special prosecutor.

Every single Republican, 26 Democrats supported a resolution saying what the Justice Department is doing in their investigation here warrants an outside special counsel.

So this idea that it's wrong, it's false, it is just simply not borne out by the facts.

His response shocked us all. He said, we learned when it was reported in the press that they had been lost.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, but, more importantly, for all the work they have done in helping let the American people know what the Internal Revenue Service was up to, what they did, how they harassed people and…

Did the Department of Justice instruct you not to share information with Congress?

Isn't it true, Ms. Katz, that when you do the outside fraud investigation, that's when you find out that there may be some problems on the inside?

Right. I understand. Both Abound Solar and Solyndra went bankrupt.

to date, he has not found evidence of widespread employee misconduct or any systemic employee involvement in fraud schemes at the Bank.

I think our administration has been erring by siding with Qatar and Turkey over some of the stronger allies that we have in the region.

There is nothing in the law that prevents you from disclosing the information we ask about.

I mean, when do you think you will be able to? Sometime after September 30th? Not before September 30th?

Our understanding is $10 million in loan guarantees occurred.

I would just ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the CBO study, Fair Value Accounting, which estimates that the Bank will cost taxpayers $2 billion over the next few years.

there's nothing in the law that prevents Mr. Hochberg from telling us what he knows, and he won't do that.

I want to get to the truth. I know Mr. Cummings does.

298 cases in the IRS backlog. Only three had the word progressive; four used the word progress and none used the word occupy.