Darrell Issa: “And I think it's critical to maintaining the republic that the government officials, who are paid by the taxpayers…”

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

I got screwed out of the gold card because a few of our members wouldn’t go along with having an expansion of revenue related to visas.

a lot can be said about my friend and colleague, my Western Caucus chair, but today was a special day for us. We had lunch today as California members, and Doug paid for it because every week somebody sponsors it. His death was so sudden…

I did ask unanimous consent that all Members be able to place extraneous material in the Record. I guess they are taking me up on it. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Schmidt).