Darrell Issa: “I don't want any Member here to go through a hearing and then find out he didn't know what he didn't know.”

Will the United States Congress side with the idea that we should be more democratic in our third branch, or that our third branch should remain more independent, less if not completely outside the will of the people at the moment?

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I suspect that the gentleman is prepared to close as am I, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Shame on anyone who would say that. I was a first lieutenant about to be a captain when the war was declared against us 47 years ago. Iran has been at war with us and the world for 47 years. In 1982, I was a young captain when they killed…