Darrell Issa

When you have OSHA, which lives off its own fine system, hiring regulators, increasing the fine schedule, and going in, and this is what they do.

It is not the fact if regulation matters. It is the fact of Washington on steroids thinking, 'We know better than everywhere else.'

Again, those are the people on the horse. You know, it is one of those amazing things, is here in Washington, they always think that more people on a horse makes the horse go faster, rather than more horses make it go faster.

this too is inaccurate. Startup companies... are vital to productivity growth in the United States

Declining unionization... accounts for between a fifth and a third of the increase of inequality since the 1970's

we have not conducted a hearing on the devastating impact that overwhelming student loan debt has on families and on our Nation's economy

So, after 40 or 50 years of the government having the ability to regulate, and after they regulated and caused you to make capital investments just a few years ago, they are now asking you to make another major capital investment…

one could argue that a strong regulatory environment actually promotes job growth

But it is absolutely amazing to me that everybody thinks a good job is a job sitting on the back of a horse telling the horse to go faster, not actually getting more horses to actually pull the load.

wages grew faster last year than at any time since the Great Recession

If they could be there, then they could ship from Cuba.

are you really telling the American people that if only 1 percent of the jobs came from money on an EB-5, that they still would be entitled to count 100 percent of the jobs?

So if I'm to understand, the Cuban Government at gunpoint took your family home and has sold it and made it a sovereign asset of another country.

unless Cuba changes and allows their people to be empowered, even with access to an additional 20 percent of the world's market, I don't believe they can ever compete globally or even feed their people properly.

the Bacardi family and all the other families involved who fled Cuba after a dictatorship seized their assets are not covered

So you don't have the authority, which means you do need congressional action to fix that?

Now, this country welcomed tens of thousands of Cuban refugees to our shores. Those tens of thousands of Cuban refugees, including those who spent time in prisons and fled, those who died--some of them died on the boats, and some made it…

You traded real property that belonged to somebody.

This Administration is ignoring the history of your Commission, the history of it, by normalizing relations with absolutely no agreement.

Do you ordinarily accept and provide trademarks excluding others when, in fact, they're not entering commerce?

once Cuba returns to rule of law, once it returns to where the family can regain what was taken by it in no different matter than the Nazis took things

The only way to really know that the $7 billion or $8 billion, who is entitled to it, would be to essentially allow the Commission to reopen and evaluate who they are.

The one thing I know is the lawyers will get rich, the Administration will move on.

At the time of the application, there was an embargo. So they filed saying they were going to do something that they couldn't do legally and can't do today.

From 2012, any statement that you were waiting on a court case to end ended.