Darrell Issa

The gentlewoman spoke quickly, and I know she had a lot of important information there. Some of it simply was wrong. One of them is that she touched on environmental cleanup. Very clearly, nothing in this legislation would limit the…

Seeing as I appear as though I am the last up to bat, I will try not to repeat any more than necessary.

No one has ever had a better partner on a piece of legislation than I have had. The best way I can describe Mr. Connolly is, like anyone else who came to a realization of something, he came to it with a great deal of zeal. This…

if we disengage from Lebanon, inevitably we give that country to those who have taken it hostage, to Iran, to Hezbollah.

to paraphrase Winston Churchill in 1907, the worst form of government there is, is democracy, except for all the others.

If the Lebanese Government were to collapse because of another war or other activity, who would likely prevail, Hezbollah and the Shias, ISIS and the Sunnis, or, in fact, would we be back at a civil war?

We have continued to support the Lebanese Armed Forces and armed forces that I understand have never lost weapons.

The others could get a chance to--is that money being used--$100 billion, we've given to a regime that basically thinks they are getting their direction from God and that the rest of us are infidels and they came to power chanting, 'Death…

It is important to have those who would not agree with us represented, and I commend the Chairman for making sure that we always have that.

It is Congress' obligation, which perhaps our low approval rating is that we don't do that, but rather we send it over to the executive branch.

The Department of Justice is abusing clients like yours today, as we speak, by enforcing things which have not complied with the law.

Wouldn't you agree that the founding fathers believed that to limit somebody's liberty, which regulations inherently do, is not a difficult question?

I, too, would close by urging my colleagues to support this well-thought-out, well authored, and in regular hearings by the committee, universally accepted as necessary and reasonable for a 10-year extension. Mr. Speaker, I urge support…

That does not, it seems to me--it seems to me, that does not speak well of the Congress of the United States.

This is an administration that has no U.S. attorneys that have been politically appointed.

As chairman of the Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee, I recognize the importance of judicial security needs. Federal judges hear cases involving hardened criminals on a regular basis. Although not everyone…

Is there any question in your mind that anywhere, anywhere on Earth that is dry, not near populated centers, not near earthquake faults, even if above ground, would be safer than that location in a 10,000-year calculation?

So my question to each of you is, with the current science we have, even Yucca mountain and all proposed, currently proposed, interim storage sites, in your opinion, aren't every one of them safer than on the edge of the ocean?

If they are an arm of government, in Virginia, don't you require that people not have an economic conflict of interest in their everyday voting?

So when we look--and I know Ms. Allen said that these things don't apply to the North Carolina Dental case, but hair salons in Virginia that wanted to make sure that braiding had to come into their establishments, isn't it really a first…

I do too, I do find it interesting that a former clerk for Anthony Kennedy and a former, I guess, researcher for Elizabeth Warren when she was at Harvard are on each side of you, Ms. Allen.

I liked your line of questioning.

Darrell Issa and I are the founders and co-chairs of the Sharing Economy Caucus.

So we have established the conflicts of interest by government officials are critical.

The conservative arguing for the plaintiffs' bar.