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In a bipartisan fashion or they wouldn t be in the bill. i wish it had been done last week but it wasn t. and so here we are. frpz i m proud of the work they ve done. look forward to passing with bipartisan majority in the house and senate in coming days. few seconds later, it was stressed it s partisan credentials. reduces the irs budget by $340 million cuts the epa staffing levels lower than in the 80s. finally it sets up a battle in just a few weeks with the president on immigration in his attempt at a legal action. slashes the irs budget, check, slashes the epa budget, check, leave room to rabel rouse on immigration, check, don t expect the far right flank to like it. ....
And if someone does come up with those e-mails, gohmert says they ll be $1 million richer. and guess what, the money under his pending bill, that would come from the irs budget. maria? i love it. all right, eric. thank you so much. we are back with more right now with congressman jason chaffetz, joining us on the house oversight and government reform committee. representative, what about a special prosecutor? absolutely. remember, again, the president is the one that said he was outraged by this. i cannot believe that the irs then worked with department of justice. the department of justice with more than 10,000 attorneys, their point person is a maxed out donor to the obama campaign. come on, put a special prosecutor in place, please. do you think we will see that? really, at the end of the day, you just keep getting more excuses and more excuses. the other thing is, during the commissioner koskinen testimony there, i don t know why he was so snarky. i mean, you would think that ....
And it doesn t cost any more than we have already appropate because it comes from the irs budget. the junk about the old computers is ridiculous. they have the best software. this should draw people out. we know those e-mails are out there. we know they can be found. we just need people to help find them and don t forget the other stick. we reduce everybody s salary in the irs 20% until the e-mails are produced. why not just go after the server? aren t they there? that is the problem. you have to have an attorney general serious about justice and this one isn t. he is obviously going over the fast and furious and we will not ....
Keep e-mails for more than six months and your system doesn t work and it crashes all the time. they will point and say, listen, our budget has been cut. the irs budget has been cut. it s still, you know, a very hefty budget. it doesn t seem like a logical excuse to anybody who s been told anything you put on the computer stays forever. be careful what you e-mail. be careful what you put out in a blog. because it stays forever. now all of a sudden things are gone forever. frankly, it looks suspicious. that s why there s been we sort of went for a while where we didn t hear much about it. then it s cropped back up because it looks bad. you ll have more on sunday morning on state of the union ? yes, we ll have darrell issa on, to talk about where he goes from here. also mike rodgers to talk a little bit about iraq and intelligence. iraq on the edge. several significant developments today as militants press on towards baghdad. is the idea of one nation still ....
Some are concerned the irs proposing a new rule last november redefining political activity is a new way to go after these five 501(c)(4) organizations. a house democrat suggests these investigations could go too far. always wanted to cut down the irs down to nothing and they re taking this opportunity to, i think, try to destroy the irs and my argument is, we re upset. make sure that doesn t happen again. we ought to make sure whoever was responsible gets found out but don t use this opportunity to do what you always wanted to do, which is get rid of the irs. reporter: irs budget has been cut. even though the new commissioner expressed concern about it having impact on customer service, it seems unlikely its funding will get a boost anytime soon. jon? jon: customer service at the irs. there is a concept. mike emanuel. thanks. reporter: thank you, sir. jenna: county down to hollywood s biggest night. final preparations underway for the 86th annual academy ....