[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13174]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              MORE SECRETS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the IRS targeted, intimidated, and 
harassed many Americans because of their political philosophy. The 
people are still waiting for answers about why their government is 
engaged in this Soviet-style behavior.
  First, 2 years of emails were lost. Now we learn that the IRS 
purposely used an internal messaging system--an office communication 
server--on the sly. They opted not to archive these messages and kept 
them secret from the eyes of the citizens and Congress. In one email 
Lois Lerner apparently was told the messaging system was not archived. 
Her response? ``Perfect.''
  So we will never know what was in those messages that were 
intentionally scrubbed.
  There is a pattern here.
  The Secretary of State was conducting official business on her own 
untraceable secret email server, and the taxman used its own ``go dark 
system'' to evade transparency. It is just another day with the ``most 
transparent administration in history.''
  Mr. Speaker, the public has a right to know and get answers to all 
these scandals. After years of stonewalling, it is painfully obvious 
that this administration will not investigate this administration.
  And that is just the way it is.

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