Darrell Issa

The work you do I won't say it is thankless, but it is pretty close.

it will be a cold day in hell before I would voluntarily write a check and put it in the envelope again.

let's have no illusions: you are just cost-shifting. There is no real cost savings to the American people.

Do you find it odd that the vast majority of these newspapers do not want a rate increase, say they cannot tolerate a rate increase, but they want you to continue delivering on Saturday?

Isn't the future of the Post Office an efficient, effective delivery system that often carries, in greater amounts, all of the above, meaning that you are the last mile in many, many, many cases, and that allows you to continue to be more…

A Member of Congress from the State of California, Hearing Preview Statement.

It is either incompetence at this agency or you had to be a friend of the Administration to get a loan guarantee, and that needs to be investigated.

We cannot simply attack any program that has the words Obama and clean air attached to them.

Mr. Secretary, notwithstanding where your independent, Mr. Allison, was before, he clearly shows us that if not for Nissan and Ford, you would have had a disastrous result.

Although the bankruptcy of Solyndra raised legitimate questions about these procedures, it did not and does not support unsubstantiated allegations that the Department engaged in criminal conduct or made its funding decisions based on…

Stimulus was supposed to get the people working again, it was not anticipated, nor was it designed, to go 4 years.

I don't think most of us would like to have that particular improved blanket over our hot water heater.

The taxpayer is sitting back there going, are you kidding me? This is what goes on with our tax dollars in one of our Federal agencies?

In my opinion, this loan guarantee program typifies the kind of cronyism that has made Americans across the Country despise what they see in Washington.

I think our Country is very fortunate to have somebody with your caliber and your background leading the Department of Energy, and I thank you for your leadership.

We are 3 years past its passage and you haven't spent it all.

We must remember, however, that Fannie and Freddie played a large role in getting us into this mess.

So my closing question to all of you is--and by the way, I will talk a little more about the questions afterwards, but is not what we should have looked at from day one, all the way back when the mortgage rates started going down in 2008…

You take them down and you take them down because at that point you either take them out of action or you flip them and make them part of your investigation.

Well, ATF agents on both sides of the border have told us that once you have enough to know that somebody has done something and to indict them with a felony, you take them down and you take them down because at that point you either take…

Well, Anderson, we've been lied to by the Department of Justice. We've been lied to by some of the ATF.

Well, we are and there are similarities. These were known straw buyers that were not intercepted or stopped and ultimately gun walking, everyone has a different definition. But when you let weapons go from the control of a federally…

They missed opportunities to use people that they had felonies against as, if you will, roll-up witnesses.

We've been lied to by the Department of Justice. We've been lied to by some of the ATF.

Well, we are. And there are similarities. These were known straw buyers that were not intercepted or stopped. And ultimately, gun walking, everyone has a different definition. But when you let weapons go from the control of a federally…