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Darrell Issa

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Darrell Edward Issa is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party and previously served in Congress from 2001 to 2019, representing California's 49th congressional district. Throughout his political career, Issa has been known for his focus on free enterprise and has been involved in various legislative efforts related to business and economic issues.

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Dec 5, 2013

We are not limiting our investigation to government agencies and government intentions and government meddling in what was already a difficult and expensive private-sector market.

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Dec 5, 2013

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

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Dec 5, 2013

We either have to elect the right people, or we have to try to encourage the wrong people to do right things.

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Dec 5, 2013

For the leader of the free world to make those statements and then to back away from them... represents a significant issue to the American people.

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Dec 5, 2013

According to research from the Heritage Foundation, there are currently 11 insurers offering coverage in the Arizona individual market.

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Dec 5, 2013

It is probably important to remind ourselves that true tolerance is not in pretending we have no differences.

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Dec 5, 2013

I was shocked that my ranking member and a couple of colleagues on that side, they actually started saying 'single payer' under their breath.

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Dec 5, 2013

The reason that this issue of Obamacare has been so significant is because it is the antithesis of this idea of a free, noble, and productive people.

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Dec 5, 2013

My colleague from California a few moments ago spoke eloquently on behalf of the small inventor, but he didn't speak for me, and I am a small inventor. When I patented my first product, all I had were a couple of employees and an idea. I…

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Dec 5, 2013

Mr. Obama famously and repeatedly promised Americans who liked their healthcare plans that they could keep them.

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Dec 5, 2013

He said if you liked your doctors, you could keep them.

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Dec 3, 2013

Today, when we discuss, once again Healthcare.gov rollout, which has undeniably been, and inarguably, a disaster.

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Dec 3, 2013

Americans deserve an efficient, effective Government that works for them.

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Dec 3, 2013

It is our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the American people.

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Dec 3, 2013

We have inordinately driven up the cost of healthcare with cost-shifting from the Government whenever possible to the private sector.

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Dec 3, 2013

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

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Dec 3, 2013

Yet, today no one has been held accountable for spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a website that simply didn't serve the President or the American people on his signature legislation.

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Dec 3, 2013

It just seems that everything the Federal Government subsidizes, the costs just explode.

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Dec 3, 2013

Nothing in the Affordable Care Act puts the consumer back into it.

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Dec 3, 2013

It is not about who we fight against. It is about what we fight for.

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Dec 3, 2013

Is there any question in your mind not that Affordable Care Act should be scrapped or not scrapped, any of that, is there any question in your mind that we need serious reform in how we deliver medicine so that the patient gets the best…

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Dec 3, 2013

I believe the premise for today's hearing is fundamentally flawed.

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Dec 3, 2013

No one is suggesting for a moment that we take Government out of healthcare.

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Dec 3, 2013

We are a can-do Nation and we are better than that.

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Dec 2, 2013

I want to go through a couple things I think we can all agree on and get to something Mr. Turley said.

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