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
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
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.
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.
I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.
The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.
Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.
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.
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption
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.