First, they denied it, Mr. Chairman.

Either way, the American people do not believe the IRS is dealing fairly with them in this investigation.

I care about the thousands of people who were denied their First Amendment rights when this targeting scheme took place.

Then they tried to spin it.

The American people have no trust in the IRS by comparison to just a few years ago.

At what point does it become obstruction of justice? 3 months? 4 months? 2 weeks?

You don't remember who came up to you and said, 'Hey, boss, we lost Lois Lerner's emails?'

You testified under oath in March that you would produce all of Lois Lerner's emails subpoenaed by this committee.

This is ridiculous, Mr. Chairman, that we did not know this when he first knew.

I subpoenaed you here tonight because, frankly, I'm sick and tired of your game-playing in response to congressional oversight.

I would hope that the guy who heads the agency... would have the courage to do what 26 Democrats did 5 weeks ago and say it's time for a special prosecutor.

The President proposes all kinds of things that Congress does not like. Just because he proposes it, does not mean it is constitutional.

I am talking about now though. Again, we went from $9 billion to zero to now, I think and what people in the program tell us, that they are going to receive money, so it is moving in this direction, not in the right direction for taxpayers.

Twenty-six Democrats, every single Republican in the House said, we need a special prosecutor.

What kind of conclusion do you think the American people are going to reach when they understand now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had 1.2 million pages of information which contained confidential taxpayer information, you have…

Every single Republican in the House said we should; 26 Democrats in the House said we should, including Ms. DelBene and Mr. Garcia.

I think the American people would like a special prosecutor, Director.

The statements and actions of the IRS and the Department of Justice and the Obama administration in connection with the matter have served to undermine the Department of Justice investigation.

I hope the Attorney General will listen to what 26 fellow Democrats in the United States House of Representatives had to say earlier this week when they voted and said we need a special counsel.

When the person leading the investigation, Barbara Bosserman, gave $6,750 to the President's campaign and the Democrat National Committee, even 26 Democrats agree something else has to happen, someone else should be in charge.

I thank the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for yielding and for all of his good work. Mr. Speaker, the gentlelady from Texas said in her opening statement that there has been no conclusion to the investigation. Yes, there has, and Ms…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me just, in response to the ranking member, it is not 39 interviews; it is 40. We just did another one yesterday, and that is going to lead to another one because we learned information in that…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Look, here is what we know: Lois Lerner was at the center of this scandal right from the get-go. We know that she waived her Fifth Amendment rights on two separate occasions. She came in front of the…

Effectiveness can be measured in a variety of ways.

we need a special counsel to help us get to the truth because the so-called investigation by the Justice Department has been a joke; the current investigation has no credibility because it is being headed by a max donor who is financially…