Darrell Issa

in this town, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not facts.

Uncertainty is the enemy of growth, uncertainty.

Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

a lease is not a permit.

The President has repeatedly as a candidate said that there will be pain in transition, that prices will skyrocket.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe.

The American people see an administration who said before they came to Washington that we need European oil prices.

I think that we would be hubris for us to assume that we could do anything about the appropriation process of other funds.

I want every single thing. Everything disclosed. Everything. Unions, everybody.

I think that some kind of way we've got to move more toward disclosure than moving away from it.

additional information could be used nefariously to create, 'a Nixonian-type enemy list.'

I think we've got to guard this democracy that we've got, because I think that at the rate we're going, there will come a time when we won't even know it.

The Obama administration is already failing to meet the congressionally mandated small business goals, and the President should be focused on bringing small businesses into the Federal marketplace.

Thank you. And I thank the gentleman for his interest, and with your history of tracking, what, 21,000 young people every year going through your camps, I suspect that you know more about how to keep track of the hardest things to keep…

So someone, if they chose to, could be emailing back and forth to the DNC from the White House, and you would not have the ability to capture that, is that correct?

We are not making an issue out of it; that is the reality of the last decade of changes.

The American people are well aware of the fiscal crisis Washington faces on a national level. They are ready for Congress to cut spending, and even President Obama has lauded recent spending cuts championed by the House Republicans.

To expect to get an 8 percent return after an economic crisis like this would seem to me to be heroic.

I thank Chairman McHenry for his efforts.

And if we are going to share the gains and we are going to also participate in the pain, we better understand that when you have your own money in the game, it is a vast difference between somebody who is guaranteed a benefit, regardless…

Sometimes you just hear something that's hard to believe. We're wasting money here in Washington. The American people are hearing it first here today. [From the Washington Post] White House Ignores Evidence of How D.C. School Vouchers Work…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 225, noes 195, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 204] AYES--225…

As it says in the Constitution, to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the District, and that is what we are doing. It gives me great pleasure to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the…

I would like to inquire of the minority, do you have additional speakers at this time?

And I am not going to take down the gentlelady's words because it is too short a period of time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is recognized.