Darrell Issa

I share with Mr. Quigley the need to make sure we never again have a meltdown.

I thank you for holding this important hearing. Your leadership in this area has been essential.

Although I believe Congress has an important role to play in authorizing executive action and determining the scope of potential sanctions, I think the Congress must also provide the President with the authority to exercise sanctions and…

The basic question before us today is not, 'What is Iran's intentions?' I was a first lieutenant in 1979. I have lived through Iran's intentions for longer than most people in this room have been alive. It is very, very clear that Iran's…

I came here to show solidarity over your concern that the administration continues to rebuff any attempt at real oversight by this and other committees of the Congress.

we do not need a Constitution for the powerful. We need the Constitution and laws for the weak.

Bloom's actions are sadly typical of this administration's blatant disregard for Congress' pursuit of the truth in this case.

The American people... deserve a full and transparent explanation from all parties involved, especially the administration.

I believe that completing Beauty Mountain is essential, but getting it right is essential because we believe that if you are going to have wilderness, this 21,000 acres...

We believe we have answered all the questions.

My bill, the Beauty Mountain bill, is an attempt not to abuse, but in fact to, if you will, try to perfect what is already in place.

I would like to very much request that the Committee take one more look at the bill and see if we have addressed everything we have attempted to.

I would also like to thank Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Markey, of the full committee, for their continued recognition of the importance of Wilderness.

My bill attempts to make it clear that this is a public access.

Should the taxpayers continue to fund a foreign government that has a history of misusing that funding?

I urge President Obama and his administration to reconsider and re-prioritize our strategy in what we seek to accomplish.

Let me be clear. Giving large sums of money directly to the Afghan Government is no substitute; it is not a legitimate withdrawal strategy.

I kind of get it that, yes, you will get green jobs, and those green jobs will be forcing people off the road and out of the vehicles they want.

Sometimes you just get a witness and you look and say I know the organization; I am sure he is knowledgeable and so on.

We look forward to reviewing the administration's response.

When Government substitutes its judgment for the private market, the result is never good.

It appears that the President has forgotten that there are in fact three separate, but equal, branches of Government, and it is Congress that writes the law.

California Republican Darrell Issa says he wants to ask Attorney General Eric Holder when he knew about the botched operation.

He had to at least say I'm familiar with the name. What is it that you mean? Or I don't fully understand everything as well as I did two weeks before.

Well, it's difficult if at all possible to believe it. Additionally there's a spin going that when they talked about guns walking in excess, that this were other programs.