Douglas LaMalfa actually said...

"A big part of our job should be, and is, government oversight of any program or government operation."

"I still think that the founding principles of vesting that power into the lower house first, or even the upper house, the power with the people, instead of ceding that over to a bureaucracy, is going ..."

"I cannot let go by earlier what the Ranking Member was saying about the process becoming such a closed, political--"

"We are impugning the entire foundation of what this country, this institution, this House of Representatives, is founded on when we make statements like that."