mr. gosar: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today to stand with veterans throughout the country and offer a simple amendment that seeks to prohibit funds in this bill from being used to create or maintain any and official record keeping system at the department of veterans affairs. as many of you know, numerous news reports have surfaced that assert that the phoenix veterans affairs health care system has been using secondary unofficial records of veterans' claims and appointment requests. these allegations claim that the reasoning behind these actions was to misrepresent the actual wait times the veterans faced as they sought health care. a whistleblower has come forward and alleged that the facility was taking the vets' application information, transscribing that information to an unofficial shared document, and only putting veterans' information request into the real system when they knew that the veterans were likely to receive an appointment within a two-week time frame. if true on paper, the v.a. central office her

mr. gosar. mr. gosar votes aye. mr. ferranthal votes aye. mr. hastings. mr. hastings votes aye. mr. woodall. mr. massey votes aye. mr. massey votes aye. mr. desanto's votes aye. mr. cummings votes no. mr. cummings votes no. mrs. maloney votes no. ms. norton. mr. tierney. mr. clay votes no. mr. lynch votes no. mr. cooper votes no. mr. connolly votes no. mr. cartwright votes no. ms. duckworth votes no. ms. kelly? mr. davis? mr. welch votes no. s. grisham votes no. ou are not recorded. >> does anyone else seek to be reported? the clerk will report. >> on that vote, 21 yeas, 12 nays. >> the ayes have it. the report is ordered to the house. the staff shall be authorized to make necessary technical conforming changes to the report. >> mr. chairman, i asked a number of days. >> so ordered. without objection. we stand adjourned. >> today on c-span, the freedom summit from manchester, new hampshire. including appearances by senators rand paul and ted cruz, mike huckabee and donald trump. we'll have live conversation all day so you can join in the conversation on facebook and twitter. it begi

we go back to the gentleman from arizona, mr. gosar. >> thank you. i would like to say that although my friends across the aisle have accused the party in a witch-hunt. the commoned a sadge facts are stubborn things. all one must do is reflect on to the facts to know this investigation is about asserting what happened. let's analyze the facts. we know that lois lerner has a history of favoring liberal groups over conservative groups. a bias. i would like to place into the record an article outlining such of these instances. we have documents with phrase like i'm really thinking we need to do a c-4 project next year and we need to have a plan so it is not per se a political project. we know that ms. lerner sent official i.r.s. emails to her own official email account which is a violation of i.r.s. rules and we also know she may have broken federal law by disclosing sensitive tax return information. she wanted to avoid litigation because as she put it, if it goes to litigation, all details are public. no guessing needed. so it seems ms. lerner wished t

mr. gosar: these investigations must be completed in order for us to have these answers. the answers from the i.g. report will yield both improvements to the v.a. process, hold accountable anyone who has ton any harm. i support this amendment -- has done any harm. i support this amendment because i support a thorough report to this investigation. thank you for consideration. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support passage of this commonsense amendment, and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from arizona yields back his time. the question is on the the ent offered -- gentleman from colorado is recognized for five minutes. rise in support, as the chairman of the subcommittee, the chairman of the oversight and investigations committee, i rise in support of this bipartisan amendment to transfer funds from the general administration line item within the department of veterans affairs to the office of inspector general for the purpose of really looking into this issue. the issue of veterans dying from preven

mr. chairman. .. >> without objection so ordered. sully attachments in e-mails from e-mails from gosar with phrases like i really think we need to do a c-4 project next year and we need to have a plan. we need to be cautious so it is in per se a political project. we know that ms. lerner sent official e-mails to our unofficial e-mail acco