Darrell Issa

It is the considered opinion of this committee chair that we have an absolute right and obligation to investigate.

In my letter, I asked Chairman Issa not to issue the subpoena. If he thought I was wrong, then I asked him to bring it before the committee for a vote, but he ignored my concerns.

We do not simply haul in one of the President's top advisors at will. There must be a valid reason.

we broadly voted in 2008 for a law on immigration that now is at the center of some problems

it is not an allegation. It is an observation.

For these reasons, I strongly support the authority to issue subpoenas, when necessary, to require people to provide information to fulfill our constitutional responsibilities, but I cannot and I will not support the abuse of this very…

We have an obligation to look at all government officials, whether covered by the Hatch Act or not.

Thank you. Then I will close. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Register Modernization Act does exactly what the title suggests--it modernizes the Federal Register Act. When you look at a well-intended bill that hasn't been addressed since the…

Thank you, Chairman. Again, thank you, Ranking Member Cummings. Mr. Speaker, we are the board of directors for the Government of the United States. Our committee oversees the equivalent of an IRA or a 401(k) in the private sector, known as…

If we are going to look at civil service reform/unionization, isn't the model, to a certain extent, the apolitical organizations like the Army, the Navy, the Marines?

I thank the chairman and Ranking Member Cummings. Mr. Speaker, the most important function that the Oversight Committee does is, in fact, to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal bureaucracy. To that end, FOIA and whistleblowers…

It makes no sense to have two systems like this.

There is no excuse, but there is also no repercussions.

This committee has repeatedly seen that we give promotions to people who are negligent or outright criminal repeatedly.

No, it is not appropriate to say spend all the money you can get.

I am sorry to have to say this, but were our diplomats in Benghazi murdered because their building felt hostile in its context and didn't welcome the population there?

I wish that was so. That's not the report we got on a bipartisan basis less than 2 weeks ago.

I want to be cooperative, and I know you want to be cooperative.

More than 100 years of giving away a million dollars a day, somehow, you know, causes people--or more than 1,000 years of giving away a million dollars a day, it represents such a large amount of money that nobody can really understood…

It would be counter to the investigation being done by TIGTA if we were to interview or even know the names.

But normally when we have these kinds of hearings, everyone comes in and everyone says, if you just gave us more money, we could fix that.

It certainly doesn't seem like a difficult or time-consuming act to give us the names of the people in the interrogatories.

Lois Lerner knew about that system. Lois Lerner asked and wanted to make sure that it wasn't being tracked and traced.

Our greatest desire, obviously, is to get to the bottom and the top of who Lois Lerner worked with as she was targeting and deliberately treating conservative groups because of their values in a different way.

This is my watch. This is my time.