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Respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ms. Lerner, in june, 2011, you requested that holly pawes obtain a copy of the tax exempt application filed by crossroads g. P. S. So that your senior technical advisor, judy kindell, could review it and summarize the issues for you. Ms. Lerner, why did you want to personally order that they pull crossroads g. P. S. , karl roves organizations application. On the advice of my counsel i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ms. Lerner in june of 2012, you were part of...

Ms. Lerner, on saturday, our committees general counsel sent an email to your attorney saying, i understand that ms. Lerner is willing to testify and she is requesting a one week delay in talking to the chairman excuse me. In talking to the chairman, wanted to make sure that was right. Your lawyer in response to that question gave a oneword email response. Yes. Are you still seeking a oneweek delay in order to testify . On the advice of my counsel i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ladies and gentlemen, seeking the truth is the obligation of t...

Ofner contempt congress. Then eric holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate the irs targeting. And second transistors cable show in los angeles hosted by the National Shaw communications association. Later, a discussion about Climate Change knowing the release of a white house report assessing the impact across the United States. Tonight, marco rubio in new hampshire. He was the keynote speaker at annualkingham county freedom counters dinner. You much that it it 00 p. M. Eastern. It 8 00 p. M. Eastern. This week, the house of voted mostly along hard lines. For refusing to cooperate. ...

Ms. Lerner impeded official investigations. She risked exposing and may actually have exposed confidential taxpayer information in the process. Day after day, action after action ms. Lerner exposed herself as a servant to her political philosophy rather than a servant to the American People. This, mr. Speaker, is why the house has taken the extraordinary action of referring ms. Lerner to the department of justice for criminal prosecution. And why we will request a special council to investigate this case. Not only has the president asserted that there is, quote, not even a smidgen of corruptio...

And she also professed her innocence. Pure and simple. 30 independent legal experts have said the proceedings were constitutionally deficient to bring a contempt proceeding. They were constitutionally deficient because the chair did not overrule ms. Lerners fifth amendment assertion and order her to answer the question. And as long as that deficiency is there, there is no reason to move forward with this effort today. But lets move on to the bigger picture. Every single 501c4 that was in the queue before the i. R. S. Could have selfcertified. They didnt even need to be in that queue. So whethe...