Darrell Issa

The American people and the people of Mexico expect us to have a zero tolerance for letting drugs come into our country or weapons go into Mexico.

If this cover-up and this game of spin and delay continues, the problem is it's only creating problems that didn't initially exist.

That is an outright lie that the Justice Department has been spinning. They shot that to the newspapers, and they found one that would print it.

Well, I certainly believe that he either misrepresented the facts or he's sufficiently incompetent that he didn't know what was in his weekly briefings. And I certainly support the fact that the attorney general cannot investigate himself.

We are deeply concerned that we now have had two strikes on Bernie Madoff; that in fact today many of my questions will be not only how did it happen, but how are we going to make sure we don't have a third.

Isn t that part of the balance that currently exists?

I think a couple of the witnesses and most folks on this committee realize that Cass Sunstein is a brilliant individual.

The law, as written by Congress, included no grandfathering whatsoever, so it literally puts at risk every serious musician in the United States.

But understand, the President said he did this without Congress.

So the best way to reform is to start looking in the mirror, and we have a lot of work to do here.

Thus far, the rhetoric we have seen from the Obama administration on the issue of regulatory reform has not matched its deeds.

So perhaps this Congress could look into reinstating those organizations, allowing them to form so we could have a much more professional look.

Isn't there a record of exactly that happening in Germany, for example, even though they had a lot to be said for locating in Germany.

Making sure the American people continue to pay only for what we use--or pay only for what we use and stop paying for unused space is bipartisan.

You know, this is one of the reasons early on in the hearing that I said to our three earlier witnesses how much I appreciated what was in their bills.

I'm looking and saying if we in this process have an opportunity to streamline the system and to help the homeless be better off than they are from a dedicated pool of money, then we on this committee have the ability to do what we cannot…

Mr. Chaffetz, who chairs our National Security Subcommittee, has proposed a program that would incentivize agencies to use space efficiently and dispose of what is unneeded.

Mr. Denham has taken his learning and experience in the State of California and has proposed a commission to identify and submit disposal recommendations to OMB.

Mr. Quigley, the ranking member on the Financial Services Subcommittee, has proposed allowing the GSA to more efficiently coordinate the sale of Federal properties.

This is one of the saddest days in my 6 months in Congress. It may be the saddest day.

the American people have a right to know once and for all who did authorize it and who knew about it.

For more than an hour, I've listened to floor debate, and it seems like one side wants to say that we have to cut and the other side says that any cut we do is wrong. One side says we have to do tax increases. The other side says no. What…

We exist for two fundamental principles: First, Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well-spent.

Thank you for holding this important hearing. There's nothing more important to this committee or to America than the kinds of jobs that every day we continue to hear we lack in this country.

I certainly believe that if we do a field observation, and it's not very far to West Virginia or Pennsylvania from here, or even Ohio, that we should look at the sites that are presented to us, review them pictorially, and then visit them…