Darrell Issa

Twisting your ankle in prep school is not defending or serving this Nation, Mr. Castillo.

We are a can-do Nation. We are a can-do Nation, and it is part of our obligation, all of us, to make sure, as the chairman has said, that we put right this ship and make sure that it sails so that it can accomplish the things that the…

I think Ms. Duckworth made it very clear that she looked at a 30 percent and a $500-a-month or so payment for life and questioned whether or not, in light of so many severe injuries--and she was incredibly severely injured in--in the line…

Lois Lerner is on administrative leave. We're very aware you can take the Fifth, or try to, and still have full pay.

Any reorganization of government has to be about how do we find accountability of those who actually do and oversee.

I hope the chairman will work with me and the other members of the committee to exercise that responsibility by conducting vigorous oversight and taking up responsible legislation that directly addresses wasteful spending.

It is outrageous that taxpayers are paying these salaries for the executives of contractors while Federal employees are being furloughed.

I don't want to dramatically change civil service and the level of unionization of the Federal workforce.

We should not shirk that responsibility, we should embrace it.

It is the job of the United States Congress, all of us, we were elected, representing at least 700,000 people each, first and foremost to oversee the executive branch.

I get very emotional about Federal employees because I see them every day, on both sides of the aisle.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My amendment is not controversial, but it's critical. At a time when over $80 billion is spent and over 10 percent of it goes completely wasted on information technology purchases by the government, there has never…

The problem isn't fixed.

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

We need to have a culture of zero tolerance for fraud, for criminals, for tax cheats.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers.

I am not picking on BP other than from a legislative standpoint.

I want to make sure that the lavish behavior that you are going to hear today doesn't happen again.

I think that there's no question you are going to see outrage on both sides of the aisle here today.

The abuse of the set-aside means that Mr. Cummings in Baltimore and parts of his district that are HUBZones, those people didn't get an opportunity to bid on that lucrative contract.

I think symbolically, it is a big difference if we can stop that one sooner if you have the power to do so.

I believe strongly that fraud was perpetrated; that it included misconduct both by personnel within the IRS, and obviously, by the applicant.

But on everyone's mind is what the IRS did out of Cincinnati, and Washington, and Laguna, and Dallas offices to taxpayers.

The American people have watched them, and they are disappointed in what they saw in hearings.

EPA never saw fit to consider the destruction of our watershed as sufficient.