mrs. e. says never fear, president obama has a pen and phone and not afraid to use it.e or a vet. jersey girl tweets, this is so difficult to believe, very sad, why can't the president deal with major things? then the irs, the most powerful government agency on the planet loses e-mails. a lot of you aren't buying. that beck says i wish everyone would stop dancing around the words they lost, they were deleted. aldo says it's a cover-up, plain and simple, textweets us commissioner proves the irs is out of control, arrogant and untouchable. shut it down. austin says i want the odds ratio on all of the irs computers crashing all at once, a billion to one? probably. david on facebook writes the irs is a den of liars and thieves, be gone with them. keep tweeting and don't forget to use hashtag cavuto whenever you do. thank you so much for watchin watching.. kennedy: who were these children ruling over the border? filling up warehouses, sleeping dozens to a room? how and why are they here? the stories and pictures are captivating and have to get to the bottom of influx, whethe

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the world knows mr al jamaat e as the body defiled by abu ghraib guards the press focused on who tortured him and whether officers would be prosecuted for his murder one fact is rarely noted mr alger might his fate was sealed by two medics a doctor and the medical command responsible for his health care according to the third geneva convention ratified by the united states. the number of doctors involved in detainee abuse is unknown but in declassified government documents the case is just one among many involving medical complicity and cover up of torture a pathologist working for the armed forces institute of pathology collectively systematically and uniformly suppressed death reports in. u.s. prisons in afghanistan and iraq today extent that they ever became aware of them in those cia rendition prisons as well. they have been teasing he's here since last july nobody knows what cave they're in well you know what he can reach the detainees the detainees under the control of the american super. secret prisons populations profoundly and in fact when you look in iraq and what happened after

hadbute the possibils not to w enforce tests that wou get rid of all their savings in order to -- to >> mr. e dora, mdoar, mr. turnei >> i have thought that the tests have been a mistake.snap there's no limit r on assets in new york, due to taking up an offering of an option, so, up people can have hundreds of thousands of dollars, or $100,0 $100,000, because of what it earns in interest, and still be eligibility for the programs. and i think that is a mistake. >> thank you. mr. mcclintock? >> mr. doar, regarding the 1996 welfare reform, did some states not follow the environmentrequi? i know back in california, the state basically excused people from the work requirement or the five-year time limit, simply slightly reduced their benefits for doing so and the result was, the state's unemployment rate, s which had beenl running well below the national average bega running well above it and the reduction in the welfare rules l was minuscule compared to those experienced by other states. did you study such comparisons and if so, what did you -- >> i have not done a full-fledged study of all the

mr. turner says, but it's not something we can ignore. e >> let me ask you on that point, mr.me ask you a question please. we all would like to encourage work. as iwoas said in my opening statement, a job is the best >>e antipoverty stimulant. i hope we can all agree on that. >> we can agree. >> if you're going to say that in order to get food and nutrition assistance for a family for example that may be working below the minimum wage or another family a that you should work, okay?willing are you willing when you have 6, 7, 8% unemployment to ensure that they have a job? and i would point out during the recession in the recovery bill there was a provision for stater to allow public federal dollars to help provide work. in fact, governor barber of bab mississippi was a big advocate . of that. you're going to require people o to work as a condition of getting food and nutrition sistn assistance when the economy is o sinking, are you going to make e sure that those who that want t work with a rejob? >> the way the requirements work is you need to be engaged in tob activities that

veteran's choice to get timely care and to make sure we offer it.make sur >> thank you very much, mr. e chairman. >> you are recognized for five minutes.>> m >> thank you, mr. chairman, i ae appreciate the work you are doing on this issue.i one of the areas that is going to have to get further review i in colorado springs, colorado.gn and there are three anonymous whistle blowers who have come us forward and said that there aree problems with manipulating 've waiting times. i've talked to the leadership in both denver and colorado springs. have they have told me personally not that this is not going on and ii believe them, but at the same, we have whistleblowers saying that it is going on. mr. matkovsky, how does the va treat whistle blowers?does and what i'm getting at, if there is intimidation taking place, how do we change the culture from intimidation to where people are free to step forward? are >> part of how we designed thisw audit was to have direct access to the front line from our to h senior staff. when our auditors went to the field, they met at the same time with the union

our. >> our program was to complete the production of all of her e-mails. >> but it's kind of important mr. commissioner to tell us when you lost e-mails for the person we're focused on. don't you think? let me ask you a more important question. did you tell the justice department? >> no. >> why not. there's a criminal investigation going on. don't you think that's pertinent thing. the attorney general and the president of the united states said we're going to do everything we can to get to the bottom and you haven't talked to the fbi at all. >> don't you think it's incull bent up incumbent upon the commissioner to know the irs loses documents critical to the investigation and you don't tell the fbi. >> back in april you told us just a few minute ago, did you tell the inspector general in april had a you lost her e-mails. >> no. >> here is is what i would like to know. if you wait -- you waited two months to tell anyone. at what point does it become obstruction of justice? three months, four months, two weeks. ? when you get that kind of critical information, we got to wait that we can spi

mr. koskinen said they back up e-mail every night. 's true that in 2011 they made herculean efforts to recover the data lost on mr. lerner's hard drive, why don't you go to the backup to get the data before it was recycled. the story, as hard as it is to believe, it's not only coherent. >> it's not only not co-hairpt, to tell you the truth, it shows not only contempt for these investigating committees but contempt for the american people, that they are not even attempting to shape a story or an answer that is the least bit credible. as you said, they had -- they knew this since february. they take all of this time to at least tell congress they had lost these e-mails. you know there's a saying, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, this is quacking like a cover-up. how else do you describe what's going on? >> go ahead, collin. >> i was just going to jump in and say, there are so many questions here that still have to be answered. we now know about this document dump that the irs sent over to the justice depart

mr. judd, could you explain to us what happened in 2012 with this legislative proposal? and, if you would, please explain why you believe the tester/mccain bill is an e improvement over the 2012 egisli legislative proposal to put border patrol on l.e.a.p. along with dea and the fbi and secret service. mr. vitiello? >> so the agency and through the request advocated for conversioi to l.e.a.p. in the sense that it did offer the same kind of a savings that are contemplated df here.fel but there were several voices of stakeholders that were not wi enamored of the way l.e.a.p. is used. and for our work -- >> what might those stakeholders be? >> the national border patrol council among others. seated to my left. >> okay. what what were their reservations?wew >> well, like what's contemplated here, flsa was not going to be remuneration going and they were concerned and i'll let brandon speak for themselver but the concerns we heard was wr there wasn't a threshold to which to manage against or two. and they were concerned that people like me would abuse that. what is contemplated are thresholds and unilateral her ability for management right to assign folks

mr. commissioner can you and i both know the irs go to back up employee e-mails began long before any budget cuts happened to that agency. there's simply no excuse for what happened. i yield back. >> mr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today we are here listening to a myth that there was a conspiracy by ms. lerner and whoever else to get rid of some data. and before i came to congress i was a physician and one of eventually did with the patient was taking history. and i would like to review the history again with you, mr. koskinen. on june 13, 2011, lois lerner's hard drive failed, meaning all her e-mails were lost at that point, is the true? >> that's correct. >> sixteen days later she was briefed that inappropriate criteria have been used in this management in cincinnati, according to the ig's report. is that true? >> that's what the report reports. >> wealth in the question is, did lois lerner preemptively crashed her hard drive? >> all the evidence is to the contrary but the e-mail string i told you shows that her request ex ord efforts were made to

mr. koskinen, are you aware of any evidence, documents, e-mails and i remind you are under oath and i remind you you have been accused of false statements, are you aware of any evidence, documents, e-mails, or other information from it professionals that call questions the accuracy of the e-mails? >> no. >> and finally, when you testified before this committee on march 26th, did you know about this e-mail claim? did you know ms. lerner's e-mails were lost forever? >> no. >> thank you very much. >> we go to the gentlemen from florida now. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have known the commissioner for many years and i know him to be a good public servant. i am a little bit baffled. i note, john, that i think you are in a position at the end of the parade with the broom and shovel here and in a difficult situation. let me, if i can, take people back to the history of this and to you commissioner. this targeted began sometime in march or april of 2010. in june of 2010, chairman issa alerted irs and made an inquiry. in february of 2011, lois lerner sent an e-mail saying the tea party is a very dan

. >> thank you and with respect to item e i'll ask mr. richie to make a brief presentation i think that's the and a half of the agreement we're talking about is significant enough i didn't want to to slide through an content the time part is moving along so i ask a brief presentation. >> thank you, mr. ricky. >> i have one slide in the commissions package is a map showing the collective bay area water agencies part of the reliability of the associations that's a simple set of principles that includes the san francisco at&t's and san jose and east bay and sclefkly we serve about half the bay area and have been referred to as a set of balancing confiscates we've not gotten along but turned a big corner we can help each other out in situations we have two ties so those principles will lay out is how we'll talk collectively and work together to improve our collective water times in times of drought and in routine times there are power in that organization coming together so the things in red s are various ties between us and additional treatm

mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio e. mr. brown: yesterday i chaired the congressional executive committee on china. at this hearing, terry sophranic, a clevelander, submitted written testimony. the hearing was to address the concerns that american consumers, that pet owners and farmers and parents have about the safety of pet food, of pet treats, of processed chicken, of animal feed from china. mr. sophranic joined me today on a call to the national press to talk about this issue. i want to share briefly the actual words of ms. sophranic. "my little sampson was showing signs he wasn't well. he seemed withdrawn, his appetite was decreasing. all he wanted was to drink water and urinate. his health rapidly decreased. we took him to the veteran three times in the next two weeks. finally blood tests re-vealed horrible results. sampson was in acute renal failure. the doctor gave him intravenous fluids for six long, tormenting days. then the most heartbreaking decision. with my husband and children, i held my little buddy in my arm

e-mails before the committee. before you testified, you took an oath you'll take again tonight, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. mr. commissioner, at a minimum, you did not tell the whole truth that you knew on that day. you gave your commitment to produce all e-mails to the committee. you gave your word, sir. and we are just a little questioning what your word is worth if in fact you can not enlightening about what you know that is germane to our inquiry, whether or not it is explicitly asked. do we have to grill you for days or weeks or months with every possible question, every possible way something could be asked, or will the meaning of a question mean you will to the best of your ability give us a true and complete answer? the american people have no trust in the irs by comparison to just a few years ago. the american people have never loved the irs. no one does love the organization that takes your taxes and if they don't feel you treated them -- they don't feel they got the right amount, they come back and have huge power over your lives. it's hard to love the irs, but it should not be hard to trust the ir

mr. commissioner can you and i both know the irs go to back up employee e-mails began long before any budget cuts happened to that agency. there's simply no excuse for what happened. i yield back. >> mr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today we are here listening to a myth that there was a conspiracy by ms. lerner and whoever else to get rid of some data. and before i came to congress i was a physician and one of eventually did with the patient was taking history. and i would like to review the history again with you, mr. koskinen. on june 13, 2011, lois lerner's hard drive failed, meaning all her e-mails were lost at that point, is the true? >> that's correct. >> sixteen days later she was briefed that inappropriate criteria have been used in this management in cincinnati, according to the ig's report. is that true? >> that's what the report reports. >> wealth in the question is, did lois lerner preemptively crashed her hard drive? >> all the evidence is to the contrary but the e-mail string i told you shows that her request ex ord efforts were made to

about the fact that the house bill does not ban searches for americans e-mail, and here particularly i want to get into this with you, mr. logic, if i might. we are talking of course about backdoor search loop holes, section 702 of the fisa statute. this allows an essay in effect to look through this giant pile of to mutations that are collected under 702 and to literally conduct warrantless searches for the conditions of individual americans. this loophole was closed during the bush administration but it was reopened in 2011, and if you want to go the director of national intelligence acknowledged in a letter to me that the searches are ongoing today. i am particularly concerned about it because as global

and we would end up probably seeing higher levels of c-e-q-a review. mr. tyler mentioned negative declaration. negative declaration, it's a big deal. that is not such an easy thing to do. they are expensive. they are lengthy. we went through a negative declaration on the lois park renovation and it added a year and a half to the project and cost a lot of money. and so that's not a reason to do c-e-q-a review if it's required. but i think rejecting a correctly statutory exemption because one might disagree with the underlying policy decision and trying to force it into a higher level of c-e-q-a review has profound i ~ implications not just for this issue, but others that mta and other agencies deal with situations around fees and fines and fares and so forth. and, so, i have tremendous respect for the appellants as a legal matter. i believe we have a responsibility to apply c-e-q-a consistently and consistent with state law.

e-mails in that period. >> i know what you found. i appreciate that. i think you went at it honestly. when mr. russell, the ig for the irs, when why looked at it, he was looking at the search term issue for us. did he look at the other issue of the missing e-mails? did he do that? was that known to him? >> it wasn't known to anyone at that time. >> we didn't look at that? >> the ig to my understanding looked at that. he is starting to investigate that now. >> well, i think that is something we might want to revisit. do you think it would be worthwhile to have the inspector general to go back and look at the way these e-mails went missing? i know there is unfounded allegations about other employees and their e-mails going missing. >> he is looking at it. i expect when they complete the investigation they will provide a report to us and this committee and other investigators. >> okay. my time is expired. i yield back. >> the gentlemen said it was unfounded. are other drives that led to other e-mails not being available to your knowledge? >> at this point, there is not. we noted, i asked, as i sai

mr. koskinen said, they back up e-mail every night, now, if it's true that in 2011 they made herculean effortsover the data lost on miss lerner's hard drive, i don't know why they wouldn't have gone to the backup to get that data, before later it was recycled. as hard as it is to believe, it's not even coherent. >> it's not only coherent. but i think to tell you the truth, it shows not only contempt for these investigating committees, it shows contempt for the american people that they are not even attempting to shape a story or answer that is the least bit credible. i mean, as you said, they had, they knew this since february, they take all this time to at least tell congress they lost these e-mails. if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck. this to me, looks like it's quacking like a cover up. how else can you describe what's going on. >> yes, exactly. sorry, sorry. >> no, i was just going to jump in and say, there's so many questions here that have to be answered. we know about the document dump that the irs sent over to the justice department. we don't know what's

and then on they lip tau cal i check my e-mails to mrs. o. >> do you also yawn while working out? >> i do. it is in the morning and i haven't had my coffee yet. >> thank you for that. andy, should obama stop pumping iron and start answering questions about fast and furious. >> the only one he should be lifting is on the back of the failed economic policy. >> nicely done. >> i shouldn't say anything else, should i? >> no, but i think you should be in the group shows on hannity. >> i am auditioning now. i love when you go to the barbells and you have to spend time finding the right one. that counts as workout time. you can say you spent an hour in the gym and you can spend 15 or 20 minutes figuring outdo i need the twenties or 15's. >> sometimes i rerack them so they are in order. >> it makes me feel bad and i was on the road and didn't make it to the gym hotel once. >> there is nothing sadder than a gym hotel. like the smaller owe tells, but not the ones you go to, will, where your bed has a bed. they are essentially a large closet and they have one rack and one aerobic device and

e >> thank you, mr. chairman. following up with what mr. walsh just referred to.sit last week the white house deputy chief of staff rob nabors visited the cincinnati va t medical center.s an area where many of my udit veterans, that e go there. f and i learned that as a result of the internal audit, that thel were flagged as requiring further investigation.ed so at this time, can you tell me what's happening at the c cincinnati va medical center?hih should members in my district be apprehensive about the care qual they're receiving or in a timelr fashion? >> they should not be concerned about the quality of the care they're receiving. i think they're -- there are specifics behind each one that c listed. i'm not saying this is in at cincinnati, but in some cases iw could be a single concern that e came in as an anonymous whistleblower concern at the e time that we were there.>> g and we felt those cases that we needed to make sure we listed that. >> do you know when we'll gentoi the details of why that was 't. flagged? and what we should be m

e-mails. the committee will resume. mr. reid is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, commissioner, for being here today. and thank you for allowing us to go vote and come back and continue the hearing, mr. chairman. this is a really important issue. obviously. and now here the loss of some critical e-mails to me is something that i don't understand how that could happen him why that could happen, but i want to get to the bottom of it as much as possible. one of the things i found in your testimony that was intriguing was the actual referral of lois lerner's hard drive, and how she went about to try to recover quote-unquote these e-mails. so my understand is that she asked the i.t. representative, my hard drive failed, there's a problem with it, can you take a look at it. that makes sense to me. but then there's another step. there's a step or it was referred to your criminal investigation department, your forensic experts in the irs. those are the folks that are well-trained in the air of criminal investigations and these are top notch forensic people, corr

mrs. capps: i respectfully ask a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from california will e postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 6 printed in house report 113-493. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. deutch: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6 printed in house report 113-493 offered by mr. deutch of florida. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 641, the gentleman from florida, mr. deutch, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. deutch: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, it's no surprise -- excuse me -- that i oppose h.r. 4899. however, my amendment is not an attempt to sabotage a bill. it's to fix a major drafting error within this legislation that could have drastic consequences on our nation's district courts. my amendment would strike section 10702-a-3 of the bill which mandates that cases involving oil and gas leases, quote, take precedence over all ot

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mr. commissioner, you and i both know the failure to backup employee e-mails began long before any of the budget cuts happened to that agency. there's simply no excuse for what happened and i yield back. >> mr. mcdermott is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today we are here listening to a myth that there was a conspiracy by is lois lerner and whoever else to get rid of some data. and before i came to congress, i was in the position -- one of the things that you always did is take the history. and so i would like to review the history with you again, mr. koskinen. on june 13, 2011, lois lerner's hard drive failed in all of her e-mails were lost at that point; is that true? >> that's correct. >> 16 days later she was briefed that inappropriate criteria had been used in mismanagement and cincinnati according to the ig report; is that true? .. >> in all the e-mails that have been collected is there any evidence to suggest that she called the white house or the white house called her and said, get those right wing organizations? >> there is none that we've been able to

the only piece of evident that anyone had something to do with the video, was an e-mail from the mr.odeswho was far from the events of the evening. everything that i have sewn so far in my role in the member of the intelligence committee indicates it was a al-qaeda attack and that was known early on. >> congressman, she said she will not let it become "a political slugfest on the backs of dead americans" and seems to indicate that all of the interest in benghazi is purely political. you are on the select committee and she's saying all you guys are interested in is the done. and it should not be a politica4 slugfest. chairman gowdy and myself are not going to let it happen. that is straightforward and it is to collect the data and get the documents and speak to the folks who know about the evening and aftermath and how that administration behaved and get those facts and present them to the american people and democrats should want to get the facts for the american people and for those families of four dead americans. >> you talk about the families, one of the reasons that it is intens