mr. chaffetz: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five ethive days within which -- legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 50. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 78 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 50. the chair appoints the gentleman from nevada, mr. amodei, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 50, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to provide for additional safeguards with respect to imposing federal mandates and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the first time. the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings, each will control 30 minutes. the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr.

mr. chaffetz you were not going to give all of them. you waited two months before you told us that you lost them. spent i waited six weeks away to provide you all the e-mails we could find. we have provided you with 24,000 e-mails from the time of her hard drive crashed and we said in the backup tapes did not exist because they had been recorded over. we at that time gave you all -- >> i have one more question. last 10 seconds if i could. have you withdrawn political edge to it that now tigta has told us that e-mails are not recoverable on the backup tapes have you withdrawn the letter that you sent to senate finance were you confirmed that those tapes were not there? on to bring this up mr. chairman, because of this committee has some experience with letters being withdrawn. in 2011, the justice department after making an active statements regarding "fast and furious" sent a letter to then chairman issa and they said this the fact comes like that during the course of this investigation that indicates a letter fiber for the letter conta

mr. chaffetz, are you going to provide all of the e-mails and responses yes we will do that. >> i remember that conversation. you reminded me of a couple of times. >> i'm going to keep doing it because the american people are frustrated about what the irs did to them regarding their first amendment free-speech rights. june 13, you sent a letter to senate finance the thing that we lost lois lerner's e-mails and destroyed -- the hard drive has been destroyed. >> i remember that. >> 10 days later he came back to the room and you asked the question to ask you specifically what date did you learn that you couldn't get all of the e-mails. >> i remember that conversation. >> your response was i learned in april. so my question to you is today will you admit that you misled congress, and more importantly the american people just like we were doing, would you admit that you misled the congress and the american people enact. >> absolutely not. >> you do not think so? >> absolutely not. >> you told him that yes, we will be all the e-mails and a few days later you learned in april that that was -- you

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oversight committee chair jason chaffetz joins us. good evening mr.ee you. >> thanks, greta. >> what's going on? >> pretty stunning to learn that after all this time, all these excuses, you know, we have the emails now the tapes have been destroyed. they have been erased. and then you come to find out that the inspector general starts to look at it and in 15 days' time start to finish they will find the tapes when they talk to the it people and say what about these tapes they say well, nobody ever asked us for the tapes. we have had subpoenas. we have had letters. we have had confirmation from the irs commissioner on multiple occasions. and they have been sitting there all along. >> you say they. but this really is the commissioner he has testified i assume under oath at least if he is not under oath he knows the responsibility. acted so horrified that anyone would challenge him on this. but he frankly either didn't do his job or he is hiding something. now, didn't do his job is probably what i'm more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. thi