Darrell Issa: “I have been in the House for 8 years, and I have been a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, although on leave…”

“I have been in the House for 8 years, and I have been a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, although on leave of absence, for 6. But before I came here, for two decades I was in the electronics industry, was part of the annual consideration of over a million dollars of private funding to help move digital television. We did so not just to sell televisions or to improve people's pictures, but in fact because of the efficiency of spectrum and what it would do. I have been a supporter of digital transition. Today, I am here as the ranking member of Government Reform, sounding an alarm that I hope will be heard by my colleagues. President Obama did only one thing before he became President. Only once did he violate his 'one President at a time' statement, and that was in fact on asking for a delay in the digital transition. I believe he did so because in fact he was misled.”