Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
Darrell Edward Issais the Republican U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district, serving since 2001. The districtcovers the northern coastal areas of San Diego County, including cities such as Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad and Encinitas, as well as a small portion of southern Orange County. From January 2011 to January 2015 he served as Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.
I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.
Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.
If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.
Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.
I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.
I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.