mr. daniel werfel, principal deputy commissioner of the internal revenue service. thank you for being with us today. the committee has received your report, and it will be made part of the formal hearing record. you will have five minutes for your oral remarks. you're now recognized. >> chairman camp, ranking member levin and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the progress we have made thus far in charting a path forward for the irs and what we hope to accomplish in the future. the report we released on monday describes a number of important findings, aggressive actions and next steps for the irs. the problems with the 501c4 application process that were uncovered by the treasury inspector general for tax administration have created significant concerns for taxpayers, and it is incumbent upon us to take swift action to insure accountability, fix the problems that occurred and thoroughly examine other aspects of irs operations. over the past month, an ongoing review of the events described in the tigta repor

general but some very very troubling testimony we heard yesterday from the acting head of the irs daniel werfel. mr. werfel testified the irs is about to produce unredacted documents to the committee last week that include references to additional categories of nontea party groups but the inspector general personally, personally intervened to block the irs from producing this information to this committee. according to mr. werfel no irs irs -- ever recalled such an unprecedented intervention. we need to know why that was. finally, i am not here to attack anyone. i'm here to get to the truth. not a partial or selective truth but the whole truth. i believe that there should be the goal of everyone in this room. we do need to stop making tasteless accusations and we need to get full information and i emphasize full, but the treatment of all businesses, conservatives, liberals and everyone in between and i sincerely hope that we can do that today. without mr. chairman i go back. >> i think the gentleman. all members will have until the end of the day to submit their written statements. and we now welco