A House hearing on alleged political targeting by the IRS has turned into a shouting match between the panel’s top members. IRS official Lois Lerner refused to testify in the latest of dozens of hearings into the alleged singling out of right-wing groups for extra scrutiny. Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa, a Republican, adjourned the meeting after Lerner repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment. In doing so, he refused to allow the panel’s ranking member, Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the chance to speak.

Rep. Darrell Issa: “We are adjourned. Close it down. … Mr. Cummings, where is your question?”

Rep. Elijah Cummings: “If you will sit down and allow me to ask the question — I am a member of the Congress of the United States of America! I am tired of this! We have members over here, each who represent 700,000 people. You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely un-American.”

Rep. Darrell Issa: “We had a hearing. Hearing’s adjourned. I gave you the opportunity to ask a question. You had no questions.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings: “I do have a question.”

Rep. Darrell Issa: “I gave you [inaudible]. You made a speech”

Rep. Elijah Cummings: “Chairman, what are you hiding?”

Congressman Elijah Cummings was speaking off mic, because the chair of the committee, Darrell Issa, had shut his mic off.