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in addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. they also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. it s no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as speaker boehner did before him. it s also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. he told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. i think it s time to move on, into quotation. senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the senate finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in im ....
with great aplum and not even worry aplomb and not even worry about it this doesn t save us the $340 billion which is what we ought to do, what this amendment does is say, don t spend it on further constructing his useless well, not useless but totally expensive facility, don t waste the money on this boondoggle. and we can spend the money on maybe what the department of energy thinks we ought to do, to dilute and dispose. or maybe build a fast reactor, which we ve had in the past and which russia is using to dispose of their plutonium. they re generating energy and doing so while getting rid of their unused plutonium. so why don t we just accept this amendment and eliminate the construction clause, keep the $340 million in south carolina so they can be happy, maybe they can spend it on something that might actually work. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman eserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? i ....
to allow puerto rico to restructure its debt. we begin this morning with the debate on capitol hill on whether to impeach the irs commissioner. republicans held a hearing yesterday where the commissioner declined to show. republicans laid out their arguments for impeachment. we want you to tell washington what you think. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. you can also go to twitter or c-span s facebook page. let s begin with yesterday s hearing before the judiciary committee, which would have the oversight, the authority for impeachment. they heard testimony from the government oversight and reform committee and its chairman, jason chaffetz p. chairman toldhe the judiciary committee. the irs targeting scandal was un-american. the most powerful and feared entity in the united states, the first him and meant rights of citizens were trampled upon. the chairman was not there for the initial targeting. he worked hand-in-hand wit ....
clearly, it can happen very rapidly and we need to be aware that.ctly i don t want to go further on that. they are not the only threat that we face on iran and syria. suggestshe evidence [indiscernible]. i wonder what preparations we have taking place. know they are already attacking the allies we are supporting, what additional support are we offering? well, this is one of those most extreme hard-line groups and it emerged in syria in 2011 and it is probably the strongest a cube franchise globally. a has its stronghold in province and it is certainly a spoiler in the political process in syria and it might represent it which becomes might represent a petri dish. significantt, a portion are syrian focused that provide a wider wrapping to those much more specifically a q-a aligned forces that might 48. a qition aligned forces that might harbor ambition. small a potentially a potentially small element of british foreign fighters associated with it, the specifics ....
may have been a regular at the gay club he attacked. that mateen had been going there for at least three years and may have used gay dating apps to. assess all that we know of the attack we re joined by u.n. ambassador john bolton, counterterrorism expert sebastian gorka. a lot to cover including a donald trump rally in greensboro, north carolina. the rally just started. this is trump s first visit to north carolina in three months. trump is expected to respond to the harsh attacks today by president obama and speaker paul ryan who have now joined forces with hillary clinton to attack trump for using the phrase radical islam and putting a ban on muslim immigration. there s no magic to the phrase radical islam. it s a political talking point. it s not a strategy. a really important distinction that every american needs to keep in mind. this is a war with radical islam. it s not a war with islam. muslims are our partners, the vast, vast majority of muslims in this cou ....