Darrell Issa

I think it would be stronger if it didn't have the option of lawsuits because, to me, that is not restoring governmental regulation here in place of the cartel.

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…

Congressman Issa recently introduced the Restoring Board Immunity Act to address two major problems related to occupational licensing boards.

It seems like only yesterday that the President said, You are either with us or against us.

A strong patent system is one that has robust mechanisms in place to weed out bad patents and to deter abusive patent litigation.

Our use of NGOs in these countries, Tunisia, and particularly Egypt, has been problematic on the political side.

I am deeply concerned that we do have to be cognizant that, with 80 countries that we cannot agree to extradition with...

Ronald Reagan then led this country to peace with the Soviet Union.

Well, I join with the gentlelady in making the belief that, until it is clear, crystal clear, it would be a fool's errand to create a situation in which companies would be damned if they do and damned if they do not.

During the George W. Bush era under General Williams and others, the State Department began a standard design/build process.

Upon the change of administrations, there was a change under Hilary Clinton and she began going back to the old practice.

Patent trolls, in my opinion, are the scourge of the patent world.

A bigger legal bill is not the definition of innovation.

In a matter of months, in a fraction of what you have gone through, the court decided those tapes were to be turned over.

The odd thing was the Senator did get an answer as a member of the minority. It just happened to be a lie.

Only by having her bad ruling reversed by an appellate court will there be a clear understanding that the President's disingenuous, obstructive, false assertion of executive privilege was wrong.

The coverup of a crime cannot be held.

But today, I am hoping to maybe give you a little different view than you would have heard from others.

I truly miss the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan, which I am proud to say... continues to be a program that is able to bid all over the country.

I look forward to the reauthorization if we can get the reforms that were required as of our last couple of hearings on the use of those 168 slots.

So we have had a data breach.

If there is evidence that people did nefariously gain some information, don't you have to admit that this is by definition a data breach?

Both of you admit that under FITARA, under the reforms, as CIOs, you have budget authority and the authority necessary to shut down or to make what changes are needed.

Okay, so we are talking about billions of dollars that we know is floating around Afghanistan, and is it fair to say that a significant amount of that money gets into the hands of Islamic terrorists including the Taliban?

We gave them, Mr. Chairman, the most centralized government plan for the people who are the most decentralized culture in the world.