of some deferred, rather. february 2014, raise the minimum wage for federal contractors. over the years, repeatedly made dozens of changes to obamacare. congressman, what is the president s legal authority to take all of these unilateral actions without going back to congress? well, chris, first, the list you showed are all things that the american public wants to see. and the president is simply saying, congress, if you re not going to do your job of actually passing the laws that make those things happen but wait a minute. congressman let me finish. wait, wait. the constitution does not say, hey, if it s popular, you can exceed your authority. it s irrelevant. the president is simply saying, i m going to do what i can within the confines of the law to make this work. so the minimum wage increase isn t for all americans. it s only for people who work for federal contractors. the president had the authority as the executive to implement the laws.
of justice launches its own investigation assigning more than a dozen fbi agents to the case. putting barbara boxerman a financial backer to president obama in charge of the investigation. we want you to investigate the circumstances surrounding the selection of barbara boxerman to head this investigation. in january of 2014 a doj official leaking to the wall street journal even before the investigation ends that there will not be criminal charges. on june 24th, 2013, the irs announces some liberal groups were put on the be on the look out list. the inspector general saying there is no evidence the irs ever actually scrutinized those groups. on august 2nd, 2013. oversight committee chairman darrell issa subpoenas the treasury department and the irs for all communications sent or received by lois lerner. february 2014. the irs learns that many of lerner s emails are missing. lost, due to a computer hard drive crash but doesn t tell congress. in march 2014, lerner
of justice launches its own investigation assigning more than a dozen fbi agents to the case. putting barbara boxerman a financial backer to president obama in charge of the investigation. we want you to investigate the circumstances surrounding the selection of barbara boxerman to head this investigation. in january of 2014 a doj official leaking to the wall street journal even before the investigation ends that there will not be criminal charges. on june 24th, 2013, the irs announces some liberal groups were put on the be on the look out list. the inspector general saying there is no evidence the irs ever actually scrutinized those groups. on august 2nd, 2013. oversight committee chairman darrell issa subpoenas the treasury department and the irs for all communications sent or received by lois lerner. february 2014. the irs learns that many of lerner s emails are missing. lost, due to a computer hard drive crash but doesn t tell congress. in march 2014, lerner
they i have a big target on my back. i bet you do. i think it s a devastating scandal, we have not gotten to the bottom of it, i hope congress continues to po i didn t know we had an archivist in the united states but apparently we do, who said the irs did not follow the law how aware were you of the need to keep records like this? i think about my own tax situation. i was audited literally every year that i was vice president. seriously? yes. it s something that started back during the nixon days, once they got started nobody could figure out how to stop. every year i got audited. you got the audit? and i got the privilege of paying for it, too. we know a time line exists here, the e-mails were subpoenaed in august of 2013, we know that they realized they were missing in february 2014,
they i have a big target on my back. i bet you do. i think it s a devastating scandal, we have not gotten to the bottom of it, i hope congress continues to pound away at it. i didn t know we had an archivist in the united states but apparently we do, who said the irs did not follow the law how aware were you of the need to keep records like this? i think about my own tax situation. i was audited literally every year that i was vice president. seriously? yes. it s something that started back during the nixon days, once they got started nobody could figure out how to stop. every year i got audited. you got the audit? and i got the privilege of paying for it, too. we know a time line exists here, the e-mails were subpoenaed in august of 2013, we know that they realized they were missing in february 2014,