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For chairman issa something that she said, something that the chairman said in 2011. when he said he would seek the committee's council, their guidance, on when to issue subpoenas and that he would talk to members on his side of the aisle, but also members on the other side of the aisle to see if whether he was, quote, nuts or, quote, am i wrong in seeking out a subpoena. and it was after ranking member cummings prepared his testimony plus showing him that video, but before the office of special council got to testify that chairman issa decided to cut the committee hearing short. >> so i see y...

Facts to you that raises one to believe what you're suggesting. because you know this is all about politics when the white house said its political director wouldn't testify, but they sent staffers to brief the oversight committee on his work. a democratic source told role call, quote, guess who didn't even bother to show up? one guess. correct, no issa. the source said staff briefed issa's staff for an hour and 15 minutes, and answered every question, 45 in all, until they stopped. so congressman, if issa really was interested in what was going on, wouldn't he have gone to the briefing? >> he...

No problem. from benghazi to the irs, to fast and furious, forget the facts. all congressman issa cares about is trying to make a scandal about this president, and he's tried over and over again. in his three years as chairman of the oversight committee, issa's issued 99 subpoenas. that's more than the last three chairs of the same committee combined. today, congressman cummings said, it's time to get back to business. >> members of this committee and i say it and i'll say it until i die, the members, each one of them, represents 700,000 plus people. 700,000. the members should have the chance...

And the white house had done everything in its power to work with chairman issa to provide him with any information that he wanted. but he wasn't really after trying to answer the questions that he claimed it was all about. it was supposed to be about the hatch act. and whether there was any violations of that act with regard to the white house's committee on its operations, political operations and strategy. well, and by the way, reverend, we had the special council on the panel who oversee the hatch act, and she would have told him that there were absolutely no problems with what the preside...

There has not been one single vote on these 99 sepenas. in many instances, he issues the subpoenas and we find out about them in the newspaper. >> wow. how do you explain that, congressman? >> i think that unfortunately, chairman issa has made a decision that he wants more attention. when this benghazi issue was taken away from our committee, we suddenly saw a huge spike in the number of subpoenas going out. and i think it's sad because it just undermines everything that we're trying to do. as i told chairman issa today, i said, look, you know, if you want to go far, you go with other. if you ...