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Congress with security clearance and takinged a note in oaths why do you assume that because we read it that it will suddenly get out . It is not only a question of disclosure, it is a question of privilege. The fact that we provided with third party that could potentially be in argument we have raised the privilege and discoverable by other individuals. What were trying to do is to protect Law Enforcement responsibility. Question, ifther there is a piece missing, there is nobody up here another sign that wants to do anything to criminal with a investigation. Sure you can do your job but you got to know that we are trying to do our job, too. And if there is caselaw supporting what you just said, do we have that . Kadzik we would be glad to continue these discussions. I would cite the ftc versus owens when the Congressional Committee compels production to does not pr ....
Rights were targeted . Not that im aware of. Do you know if they were transcribed . I do not. And you dont know if john was interviewed . I do not. You think you should have been interviewed, the guy presiding over the Internal Revenue service, your agency, and he is the commissioner when 420 two backup cases are destroyed, containing emails . Do you think it would be maybe a good thing to do in an investigation . Tie did a thorough investigation. For the people who were targeted notified . That im aware of. Do you know Catherine Engelbrecht . I am familiar. The lady who was audited both personally and your business by the irs, visited by the epa, atf, osha, all law she was trying to clean up voter registration. The full weight of the government came down on her. She was contacted before you decided . I dont know. People were interviewed in the context of the investi ....
, but you know what . You cant get by on 12 or 13,000 a year. The time has come for this great country to join in the rest of the industrialized world and pass a medicare single payer system. [cheers and applause] i am a member of the Senate Environmental committee and the Senate Energy committee and in that capacity i can tell you, then i have talked to scientists wrote not only our country but throughout the world. The truth is climate changes real and caused by human activity ended is devastating car mission over country and roam the world. Around the world. Now the Koch Brothers of the fossil fuel industry may not like that but for the sake of our children and grandchildren and for sustainable all energy. And we have manny economy that is read that where rebuttals gets pour. But in addition to having a rigged eco ....
And effective government that serves the people. We have to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent responsibly. We do that by conducting oversight of the executive branch and examine Government Programs and policies that affect every american. Mr. Cummings and i, and our predecessors here at the committee, didnt invent the concept of this oversight of the executive branch. It comes from the constitution, and comes from the need to be responsive as we represent the people of the United States of america. Today, we will hear from a group of senior legislative liasons from five different agencies, all with the troublesome track records when cooperating with request for information. I and sympathetic to the idea that they get bombarded from so many different committees. Not only in the house, but in the senate as well. It is a large task, agencies so massive and so big, s ....