Darrell Issa

The fact is we are hearing many people talk about important regulations and of their somehow being taken out. Let's understand that regulations can go both ways. These changes and the underlying law can also protect the other way. The fact…

I remember Chairman Ed Towns who used to say when someone ran on: The gentleman's time has long expired. I think we might have that situation here, but I am going to give the gentlewoman from Florida a moment more in just a moment. The…

Would the gentlewoman answer the question. Is there 61, according to the ranking member, pieces of regulation that could be in the window? I just wondered if you had one regulation by the Obama administration that concerned any of these…

The gentlewoman from Florida, I am sure, is well intended, but there is nothing more transparent than calling up to the floor of this House and debating the removal of regulations that have been found to be excessive or extreme or simply…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I won't be long. There is nothing mundane about what we are doing here. Every day in America, Congress passes a law maybe, but every working day in America, the bureaucracy passes…

I was too far away to return for the vote in time. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay' on rollcall No. 607. Parliamentary Inquiry

In closing, I have served in this body for almost exactly 16 years; and I have observed the extremely rare times that a resolution of disapproval comes to this body. So I think if we can set a tone for the remainder of the debate, the tone…

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas, and let us continue that tone. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee). The question was taken; and…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Presidents from both parties have made a habit of midnight rules. And although here today we hear about 18 years of a deliberative process on beryllium, 18 years of consideration and it has to be passed…

I would ask that my colleague consider his two amendments en bloc if he would. I would be happy to yield to make sure time is sufficient. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has been recognized for 5 minutes. The gentleman from…

On this en bloc pair of amendments, I have two very different reasons for objecting. In the case of the portion that is the Director of Office of Management and Budget, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly) and I spent an amazing…

I won't use it all. I thank the chairman, and I thank my colleague from Virginia. Let me take a moment to reflect, perhaps, on something that my colleague and friend said. During my tenure with Mr. Connolly, our committee sent 23 pieces of…

I was rather surprised at my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Johnson). Since I am the author of the bill, I would say that for the 16 years I have been in Congress, I have been deliberating this piece of legislation, so it certainly is not…

Isn't there a double standard that when you granted immunity to these five individuals, you took them out of the reach of prosecution for crimes committed related to destruction of documents?

Well, I understand that. But based on the Reddit discovery and others, the 'they asked me to do it'--and you said so yourself, it was probably Cheryl Mills, the 'they.'

I have got a lot of concerns. But one of them refers to Reddit.

My question to you is, when I was a Chairman and I wanted to grant immunity to somebody, I had to notice the Department of Justice.

Yes. He is. And what are you going to do about it?

Is that consistent with preserving evidence?

I mean, and this is purely a question of--you apparently do not have the resources to do that which others can do.

To any compassionate human being who has not invincibly hardened his or her heart or soul, an honest consideration of this absurd inconsistency is profoundly enlightening.

More than 90 percent of the American people support this kind of legislation, yet we have been unable to even get a vote or even a debate in the United States Senate.

I would earnestly implore in this moment in this Committee that the majority leader of the United States Senate... to hold in some form a recorded vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The abortion industry has labored for all of these decades to convince the world that unborn children and born children should be completely separated in our minds.