Darrell Issa

We have prioritized a number of discovery.

I think Mr. Connolly brought the right point, which is, why rob a bank when you can rob Medicare, Medicaid, and the IRS.

You have delivered less than 1 percent of the documents, actually, to the Ways and Means Committee.

They are not searching on the terms we've asked for.

Mr. Issa. That is not your call, Mr. Werfel.

Mr. Issa. You frustrated this committee. You promised to do things and you're not.

These are not my expectations. These are the American people's expectations.

I'm deeply disappointed. It was my expectation with our past relationship and your past work that you would come in not just wanting to be a caretaker, but actually get to the bottom of this.

We entered this thinking this was something fundamentally wrong.

Our job is to find out everyone that should be held accountable and make sure the American people can trust this will not happen again.

I'm shocked that you would not at least say that the Office of the Inspector General, which includes key lieutenants, one of whom was the Democratic deputy staff director here, that they are above politics, they are above partisanship…

I'm hoping he can get above his statements on a phony scandal about this and realize this scandal is real.

The gentleman is entitled to his opinion, but not his facts. In the bill itself, which I read yesterday, it says: An employee removed under this section shall be notified of the reasons for such removal within 30 days. {time} 1645 I yield…

I wonder if the gentleman from Virginia would have kept this person on for how long--weeks, months, more than a year? This individual received a bonus after more than a year. When this bill came through our committee, the amendment to say…

Your interpretation of 6103 is so broad that you are delivering no meaningful information.

We should have already received communications to and from the White House.

Reclaiming my time, classified information said by a Federal employee has an obligation to be said in a secure location. Of course, under the law, they can say no recording devices can be here in this secure location. But of course you go…

I would ask what day it is, what day of the month it is. Mr. Speaker, is it the 31st day of July? Can you verify that for me? Because on the 24th of July, we amended this bill to send it to the House, and the ranking member knows full…

I will read from the actual language, as amended, the bill before us today that says, ``Notice of rights when Federal employees engage in certain actions.'' It says: A notice of an individual's right to record conversations with employees…

I will be one who will support that.

DOE owes the Committee on Natural Resources the request that they had for documents surrounding this.

In closing, Mr. Speaker, we hold these truths to be self- evident: one of them clearly is our right of free speech; another, free association. But protecting from our government is what our Constitution is all about. My Democratic friends…

This mission should not be subject to political interference to pursue particular policy penchants of any presidential administration.

You don't have to coordinate the truth; you don't have to prepare to tell the truth.

We don't want to see the IRS targeting any group, correct?