[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 GOOGLE DOES A BETTER JOB THAN THE IRS

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Madam Speaker, did you know that Google keeps emails 
for 7 years?
  Google, a company which is used for personal emails, keeps your 
emails, evidently, longer than the IRS. Well, that is, at least, what 
we are understanding now from the IRS.
  I think it is highly doubtable that these emails simply disappeared. 
And seeing the other claims by the IRS that have turned out to be 
falsities, I believe this is also. I do not believe that they have lost 
them.
  First, the IRS delayed in telling the American people, through their 
report of the missing emails. They did not even acknowledge the problem 
that occurred.
  Second, the IRS Commissioner Koskinen was, I believe, untruthful when 
he referred to these emails being missing. No, not in April, as he 
first claimed, but actually February 2, according to the IRS deputy 
associate chief counsel, did he recognize that they were missing.
  Madam Speaker, I would say if Google can keep these emails for 7 
years, I think the IRS should have to do the same, and if they can't do 
their job, we are going to, as Members of Congress, find out.

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