[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10225]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               THE VAPORIZING OF TWO YEARS OF IRS EMAILS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, crisis: IRS emails have vaporized.
  Where, oh, where have the emails gone? Where, oh, where can they be? 
In another Friday evening news dump, the administration announced that 
2 years of Lois Lerner's emails have vanished. Poof, gone.
  That is not all. Today, we learned that the emails of six other 
prominent IRS officials involved in targeting conservatives have 
disappeared. Poof, gone. Isn't that an oddly convenient disappearance?
  Have they gone to the same place the missing 18 minutes of Nixon's 
Watergate tapes went? The IRS blames the well-timed fiasco on a 
computer glitch.
  Mr. Speaker, what do you suppose would happen if the IRS came to a 
citizen's home to audit their taxes and the citizen said, sorry, the 
records were lost in a computer crash? The tax collector would laugh.
  It is time for a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS and find 
out where, oh, where have those emails gone. This yarn by the IRS 
requires a willing suspension of disbelief. Mr. Speaker, that dog just 
won't hunt.
  And that's just the way it is.

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