Darrell Issa

This bill, authored by Congresswoman Ann Wagner of Missouri, recognizes the last full measure of support for Lieutenant Daniel P. Riordan, and I can add nothing more than the author will add, so I yield such time as she may consume to the…

In closing, I just want to hit two points that I think are noteworthy. Historically, agencies kept their records for 30 years, the presumption they would keep them for 30 years before turning them over to the National Archives. With the…

Once again, I urge support for the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa) that the House suspend the rules and concur in the…

But right now New York and perhaps others owe the American people money from excess payments, and they're not being treated the way private sector is being treated.

They basically got a free ride; 700,000 people got a free ride.

There is no one in Congress that I have more personal respect for than Bobby Scott.

Boy, I'll tell you, hearings like this let us know how long it takes to do anything here on Capitol Hill.

Isn't it true that the function of the Library of Congress to enhance and make available for education and informational purposes to the United States and ultimately the world, that is a mandate that the Librarian has?

Let's cut to the chase. I have with me three witnesses. Two, very clearly, are not part of transparency in government.

We pay a huge premium for CIOs, Senior Executive Service. We, the Congress, have authorized special high pay, a quarter of a million dollars and more, to get certain people with special expertise.

I ask that you commit to me today that you will look into this and get back to me on whether you think that statement is acceptable behavior.

The system as it is today is an incredibly easily gamed system.

So somebody who didn't change the password created a huge vulnerability, particularly if they had a high level of access.

We are here today because you represent the most arcane part of government in many ways.

So just to wrap up, budget is always a problem, but you are not even beginning to be positioned to handle well the absorption, the cataloging, the referencing and the searching of the media being produced in the United States, let alone…

Big fines make headlines, but that is all they do. Press releases do not save lives.

In a digital age, if we are going to protect copyright and we are going to make, if you will, works available to the public, both of those have to change.

I would hope that the unredacted versions of all this would be made available to the GAO.

I am not here to attack individual members of the IRS, I am not here to cast aspersions on every action that has been taken but I am here to hold you guys accountable.

It is always amazing to me that people want to pretend that a 501(c)(4) is a charity. It is not.

The canard that somehow the taxpayers are funding this is simply not true.

Mr. Chairman, either we get on with the business of the American people, that they have sent us here for or we need to stop wasting time and taxpayer resources.

I also think it takes a lot of gumption of certain members of Congress to question the request for critical pay authority when this is the least productive Congress in the history of Congresses.

There is no tax money lost at all.

I believe that there are certain staff, including Ms. Lerner, who have not served this Administration well, that due to poor management, poor decision-making, we are in a position to have to have these types of hearings.