Darrell Issa

If we embrace the entire budget proposal, that would, in fact, be comprehensive according to the Administration?

I want to make sure those are considered but my goal is to pass a net cost reduction piece of legislation out of this committee to help ensure the survival of the Postal Service.

Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

My bill has 130 co-sponsors and a Senate companion bill has been introduced.

As I see it, structuring the plebiscite as a vote on Puerto Rico's admission as a state is consistent with U.S. law.

My goal is to only include in the markup, at least my vote would be to only include things in the markup in which the Administration has commented consistent with their view of the budget proposal.

He has had to go specifically to you or your deputy to get permission to have access to records.

It has caused delays.

I think you would agree that the importance and sanctity of the Inspector General Act is one that is important to all of government.

This language is a response to a 2012 plebiscite in which a majority of voters said they do not want Puerto Rico to remain a territory.

I have made no secret of the fact that I think DoJ's response to the crisis in Puerto Rico has not been sufficiently robust.

Is it not a form of soft intimidation by any stretch of the imagination to force an independent individual...

Americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them.

There has been a long history of people being very happy when they got conversion to cluster boxes and security.

But you make actually my job much more difficult when you unilaterally, as you have, you write memos...

It is time for the President to finally acknowledge ObamaCare isn't working and to delay the law in fairness to families and individuals.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they are getting from the government.

They understand. We all understand that we have to refill that well of credibility because of recent events and mistakes.

The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. First, Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

I think the best words you could have said, at least music to my ears, are that if we cannot do it right, we are not going to do it at all.

It is probably the most resilient law enforcement organization I have ever come across.

You all have a tough situation to deal with but I am so thankful that the ATF exists because if it didn't, we would have to invent it.

Americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them.

Our job is to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the American people and bring genuine reform to the Federal bureaucracy.

I want them to understand they have a mission that is bigger than they are.