mr. horsford, noting that mr. horsford had left the room. the fact is the matter we have been called to vote and we have less than seven minutes on the clock to go vote. that is why mr. horsford was not hear him was not here to defend himself against the charges made by the chairman of the full committee. secondly, before i let you go, mr. cole, i speak on behalf of the full committee and we all really want to know what happened to the missing e-mails. all of us. we are all somewhat skeptical that they can't be recovered. all of us. we urge you to do your is to nurture colleagues to find those missing e-mails. because when the e-mail is sent to and it makes people suspicious inmates to unfounded charges are reckless allegations and this is an arena where reckless allegations find a home and so i think it would make a lot of sense to redouble your efforts to find those e-mails. i also want to mention a lot has been made in the hearing today about improper influence on the irs having to do with citizens united and the way that the irs folks we

mr. horsford. mr. horsford: thank you to the gentlelady for yielding and a -- and i come to the floor today to support the amendment offered by my colleague, congresswoman titus from district one, and as she has so eloquently indicated and as i stand here today as the representative who actually has yucca mountain in my district, first and foremost we should probably start pronouncing our state the way the people in our state pronounce it which is nevada, not nevada. we should start by recognizing that the people of nevada hold dear to what's important to our state. i oppose efforts to fund the yucca mountain nuclear waste project. any avenues for the activation of this project should be blocked. potential funding for the storage of nuclear waste at yucca mountain should be put to better use, whether it is to reduce our deficit or fund other essential government programs. nuclear storage at yucca mountain is a failed and unworkable proposal. there are investments that we have made in yucca mountain alre

mr. horsford. mr. horsford: thank you to the gentlelady for yielding and i commend you for your tireless efforts in fighting this dangerous storage of yucca mountain nuclear waste at yucca mountain, from your days as a leader as a state legislator and your unwavering commitment, on behalf of the majority will of the people of nevada, who are opposed to dangerous storage of nuclear waste in our state. from our governor, republican governor, our u.s. senator, republican member, u.s. senator dean heller and majority leader, harry reid, this is a state issue. the state is opposed to the storage of nuclear waste at yucca mountain. there are local counties that have different positions but the state's position has been clear for decades that we do not want dangerous nuclear waste stored in our state. ultimately this threatens our state's health and safety. it hurts our safe economy, not just gaming, but other areas and with one accident, it could devastate southern nevada. the stakes are too high for our stat

mr. horsford and mr. jeffries for this special order, among others. i could not imagine, as we end this session, to have a more especially important statement to the american people. we want to work and in a few days we'll be voting on an action to sue the president of the united states. et me refer you to justice antonin scali what -- scalia who says that we reject a system in which the congress can pop into court in when the president implements a law in a manner not to congress' liking. former chief justice william rehnquist similarly wrote that while some european countries allow one brampling of government to sue another, that is obviously not the regime that our constitution establishes. our constitution contemplates a more restricted role for article 3 courts and in fact, our constitution clearly states the separation of the three branches of government. judiciary, legislature, and of legislature, the the judiciary and i just lost the other branch of government. mr. jeffries: executive branch. ms. jackson lee: executive branch of government. th

mr. horsford is left. he would get an opportunity to take the party line. you are not prosecuting a contempt of congress because you have this new opinion that shall doesn't mean shall presented to the court or in this case to the grand jury. you haven't given it to us and today is the first time we hear about it. i join with the chairman in reiterating that we need a special prosecutor because your political appoint tee, your boss is a political appoint tee, the people that work for you work for you at your pleasure and you are controlling an investigation that is slowly reaching no decision when in fact learner has been found by a committee of this congress to have vited laws as she targeting conservatives for their views. this committee produced a massive document showing she targeted them and not liberal groups and yet you is it here today implying you are relying on some well known more conservive individuals decision as though we are supposed to believe that. when the gentleman from nevada talks about contempt, yes, we have contempt for the man you wo

mr. horsford. >> thank you, mr chairman. last night, the actual chairman, chairman issa took an extreme action by issuing a unilateral subpoena to the white house. he demanded that miss o'connor show up here today within 24 hours and under threat of contempt. there was no vote on this subpoena. the committee did not debate it. members did not have the opportunity to weigh the gravity of what the chairman did in the committee's name. now, we find out how misguided that subpoena really was. miss o'connor, let me just confirm what we've heard here this morning. you were not at the irs when employees were using inappropriate search terms. is that correct? >> i was not at the irs during the period covered by the inspector general's report. >> you joined the irs after the inspector general issued his report. is that correct? >> yes, i joined on may 30th, 2013. >> and you left the irs in 2013 which was long before the irs made these recent discoveries this spring about miss lerner's e-mail. is that correct? >> that's correct, yes.

mr. horsford, touched on this earlier. last month the judiciary committee held a hearing and they brought in fbi director james comey and went over this. and chairman goodlatte asked him, can you explain why there's an investigation given that the president said there was not even a smidgen or a scintilla of corruption? and director comey, the director of the fbi said, i mean don't disrespect to the president or anybody else who has expressed a view about the matter, but i don't care about anyone's characterization of it. ikea and my trips care only about the facts. as -- there's an investigation because there was a reasonable basis to believe that crimes me been committed, and so we are conducting that investigation. deputy general cole do you agree with the fbi director's assessment that outside characterization, even by the president of the united states, have no bearing on a particular investigation? >> that's correct. outside characterization is i anybody have no bearing on our investigation. >> when you talk about ca