[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13084]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE IRS SCANDAL

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, they say where there is smoke, there is 
fire, and as far as the IRS is concerned, with their credibility, they 
are engulfed in flames.
  Just this week, IRS staff testified to the Oversight Committee that 
they may still have some of Lois Lerner's missing emails, despite 
earlier claims they were lost forever.
  On Tuesday, the Ways and Means Committee discovered Lerner's hard 
drive was only ``scratched,'' information that conflicts with their 
earlier statements that the data was unrecoverable.
  It is clear the IRS refuses to be fully forthcoming, and their 
behavior continues to raise serious questions about potential criminal 
wrongdoing and the targeting of conservative groups.
  Here in the House, we are committed to oversight, transparency, and 
ensuring we get the answers we need in the pursuit of understanding 
what really happened.

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