Darrell Issa

If I were a southerner and had been around animals long enough, I could say 'bull' in a better way. But it is bull.

Finally, and unfortunately, the most significant challenge facing the Postal Service today remains what it has been for the last two years: Congress's failure to act.

No matter what my position might be on five or six day, I can tell you that the postmaster would catch hell if he went against what the Congress voted for.

We are reshuffling the deck on the Titanic and you are sinking.

My concern as a government watchdog and as a taxpayer is that, without reform, the American people are going to be left footing the bill for a taxpayer bailout.

The people are not going to take a bailout of the Postal Service.

I only wished that the rest of Federal Government would have to go through such scrutiny...

Find something that can be done so we can move this forward.

If, on both counts, the taxpayer is ultimately on the hook.

The Postmaster reported in the neighborhood of $16 billion in losses last year.

As I have said repeatedly, Congress needs to pass comprehensive reform legislation that addresses not only delivery standards, but the full range of reforms needed to re-engineer the Postal Service for the next century.

The Postal Service is a valued organization, constitutionally mandated, that we need to fix.

Cybersecurity threats represent one of the most serious national security and economic challenges we face in our Nation. Whether it's criminal hackers, organized crime, terrorist networks, or nation- states, our Nation is under siege from…

Our duty on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights.

The post office, although required to be solvent, required to be self-funding, is in fact neither self-funding nor solvent.

Cuts have consequences. Duh. They have consequences.

May I inquire as to how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining.

It's now my honor to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz), the author of this bill, a champion for accountability of the Federal workforce and Federal contractors.

I refuse to believe that. I just do not.

I urge all Members to join with me in support of H.R. 1246. This bill under consideration is critical and timely. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from…

At this time I have no further requests for time, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I made a decision to bring these two bills separately, rather than combine them, for a reason. This is not controversial, but failed to get through the Senate. The other bill has some controversy. But I'd like to say that in fact I believe…

The gentleman is right. And I would take note that this afternoon the IRS did offer to speak to us over the phone but had no answers in writing, which continues to befuddle me a little bit that we can't get answers. I will continue to work…

I join with the gentlelady from the District of Columbia in applauding what the IRS has done. The IRS effectively gave itself the rules that Mr. Chaffetz would like to have all Federal civilian workers living under. The IRS has a…

I'm not going to do too much responding to something that asks why something was brought on April 15, except to say that the minority was very happy to have us bring on April 15 something to hold contractors responsible on tax day for…