Darrell Issa

the Oversight Committee is unique in that we do not oversee a part of government, but in fact all of government.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their Government.

our committee over both Republican and Democratic chairs has found waste that is often as much as 1,000 times what our budget is.

There are three kinds of taxes. There are taxes in which we take money.

We are not talking today about regulations in memoriam.

Let us not rewrite history here today and say that all government needs to do is have more regulations.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Failure to comply with existing regulations by the Federal Government was a major factor.

The sequestration today is being talked about as though it is an onerous tax on every American.

What we are talking about here today...is the growth of new regulations in a nanny state.

What we are talking about here today... is the growth of new regulations in a nanny state that is attempting to regulate every aspect without concern for the cost.

Today I rise in support of the Academic Competition Resolution of 2013. The resolution, which will establish a yearly academic competition in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics each year in each congressional…

I am a huge believer in it. We have 11 cloud-based services.

Our goal on the Committee is to bring to a published bill by the time we leave for the spring recess.

I will be very, very brief.

If we take that money and we sell it and we put it into Apple or we put it into gold futures or anything else, we may or may not make money.

General Motors is a public company, so we have lost that much money.

To close. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Texas was right. The President signed sequestration; the President asked for sequestration; the President negotiated sequestration; and the President has had from this body alternatives to…

The loyal opposition is entitled to their opinion but they're not entitled to their facts. Let's go through some facts. The ranking member may not remember January 1. I know it was a long time ago--over a month. On January 1, with the…

I said earlier, and now I have to repeat it, the other side is entitled to their opinion but not their facts. Mr. Speaker, that's the number. Almost half a million out of 2 million of our Federal workforce receive over $100,000, but the…

I'd now like to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. DeSantis), a member of the committee and a newcomer, but not someone who hasn't watched this play out time and time again as people call $274 a catastrophe for the Federal…

I yield myself 30 seconds. Earlier there was a statement made about a nurse making $27,000. After checking, we discovered that's a nurse's assistant. I think it is important to understand that a nurse at the Veterans Administration would…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, again the facts speak louder than the rhetoric. The .4 percent is less than a quarter of the exit rate in the Federal workforce of the private sector, one of the reasons people in the…

Not any more than your Member did. The fact is this is the truth, and the facts speak louder. Only 22 percent of the Federal workforce believes that their pay is linked to performance. Of course the Federal workforce doesn't like not…

The fact is we have a problem, and the problem is everyone wants to call a total of about $1 billion of not increases as somehow draconian. The .4 percent, they're not leaving the workforce. That's the important thing. I reserve the…

I yield myself just 1 minute. I know the gentleman didn't mean to when he was talking about Maya, but he did say that her pay has been frozen for 10 years. I'm sure he meant 2 years and, if we enact this, a third year. Mr. Wolf is a…