Darrell Issa

Rep. Issa Releases Business Community's Wish List

Melissa Jeltsen | February 7, 2011, 4:27PM

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)

Late last year, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), now the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to hundreds of businesses to solicit feedback on government regulations that they felt impede job creation. Today, he posted the submissions he received -- a collection of almost 2,000 pages from 160 industry groups, ranging from the American Meat Institute to the Chamber of Commerce.

Even with just a cursory scan of the documents, it's clear there's at least one government agency that industry wants reigned in, immediately: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). More than 100 responses point to EPA rules as an obstacle to job creation.

Read more »

Darrell Issa

Issa: When I Said Obama Is Corrupt, I Meant Like A Computer (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | January 6, 2011, 10:00AM

Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is now attempting to explain away comments he made about the President Barack Obama being corrupt -- by claiming that the media just doesn't understand what he was trying to say.

Read more »

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Darrell Issa Embarks On Charm Offensive, Lays Out Bipartisan Agenda (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | November 8, 2010, 1:12PM

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)

All the predictions had Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman-in-waiting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, embarking on a partisan subpoena spree, dredging up various conservatives' pet issues to take shots at the Obama administration.

But in making the media rounds over the past week as part of an apparent charm offensive, Issa insisted over and over again that he'll take a more middle-of-the-road approach.

Read more »

Darrell Issa

No Let Up: Darrell Issa's Tireless Quest For Scandal

Zachary Roth | April 23, 2010, 8:35AM

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)

Remember the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich, Dan Burton and co. managed to create a steady stream of outrage by playing up every Clinton administration "scandal," no matter how minor? Or how about the last years of the Bush administration, when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) seemed to function as a one-man investigative machine, making sure that no Bush administration wrong-doing went unexamined?

Today that role is being played by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight committee. But despite the steady stream of made-to-order conspiracy theories coming from Fox News and the Tea Party crowd, it's a much harder job. That's largely because Issa's party is in the minority, so he doesn't have the power to compel testimony or subpoena documents. And it's perhaps also because, though the Obama administration is far from squeaky clean, Issa just hasn't had the kind of material to work with that his predecessors did.

Read more »