"I believe every member of this committee has a responsibility to get to the truth, to make sure that government fulfills its responsibility to serve the public and, in this case, to protect the public..."
"According to a September 2015 inspector general report, the IRS spent $139 million in 4 years on upgrading its workstations from the outdated Microsoft XP to Windows 7."
"I think you understand that using a supported version of Windows is critical to securing data."
"My question is, where are you on locating those workstations and getting them updated?"
"If we're going to have a constitutional government, we've got to get back to Congress making law rather than the executive branch bypassing Congress."
"I think it's somewhere north of 25,000 pages, Mr. Chairman, and that includes all the regulations related to ObamaCare, somewhere north of 25,000 pages."
"The cost of regulations on our economy last year was right around $2 trillion. That's a little over $15,000 per household."
"It's killing us in terms of disposable income that would go into the economy and in terms of investment capital that could go into business startups."
"Having come out of a think tank environment working in a think tank world for 25 years, I'm very much data-driven."
"I constantly run into people who talk to me about the regulatory environment, the uncertainty, and how difficult it is today to start a business."
"You could've acted. You've got a roomful of people here now who have been impacted because of it. So what are you waiting on?"
"The EPA has failed in its responsibility. It's lost credibility."