U-T San Diego reports that Rep. Darrell Issa now believes the primary cause of the massive number of immigrants crossing the U.S. Southern border is not increased violence in the immigrants’ countries, but poverty. Issa, who just visited Central America,
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that private interviews with a top IRS official who is charged with providing documents to Congress has led him to believe that at least some of Lois Lerner’s emails are probably recoverable.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is leading a delegation of lawmakers to Central America described as a “rival” effort to a recent fact-finding trip by a working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner. The
LOS ANGELES — Elan Carr, the Republican nominee vying for the 33rd District congressional seat being vacated by Democratic icon Henry Waxman, raised $434,873 in the second fundraising quarter of 2014, according to FEC reports filed Tuesday. Carr finished the
Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who is now running for Los Angeles County supervisor, left a voicemail message in 2012 asking a subordinate to help with a fundraiser to support President Obama’s reelection. Rep. Darrell Issa released an audio recording
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is defying a congressional subpoena by keeping a top political aide to President Barack Obama from testifying at a hearing Wednesday, setting up a potential new legal battle in this midterm election year. The
In his office in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) hands me a bookmark-sized card with a gold, embossed congressional seal and his name at the top. On it are the 24 current members of the GOP
More than 30 Republican lawmakers are calling on President Obama to end his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and make a public assertion that new arrivals will not receive legal status. In response to the ongoing flood of unaccompanied
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said embattled former IRS official Lois Lerner’s attorney William Taylor “outright lied” a number of times while defending her role in
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told host Greta Van Susteren that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was “one step shy of perjury” last week when he testified
Amnesty advocates stormed Congress Friday and dared Representatives, particularly Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), to take away their Deferred Action status. Nearly 560,000 people have received temporary amnesty and work permits after President Barack Obama unilaterally enacted the Deferred Action for
Wednesday at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee “Management Failures: Oversight of the EPA” hearing, EPA head Gina McCarthy argued that the constitutional balance of power is her reason for not turning over documents in compliance with the committees
In response to Darrell Issa: Records Like Lois Lerner’s Emails ‘Don’t Just Disappear… Unless That Was the Intention’: The IRS is working to recover Lois Lerner’s missing emails according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney at Wednesday’s press briefing.
Amid new reports claiming that Louis Lerner’s emails sought by Congress pursuant to claims the IRS targeted Tea Party groups are lost forever, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a blistering statement alleging that such federal
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa announced Friday that he would release Secretary of State John Kerry from a scheduled hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks. Issa subpoenaed Kerry shortly prior to Boehner’s announcement that he would appoint a select
The Justice Department’s “Operation Choke Point” is so flagrantly illegal it cannot continue in any form under the law, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Charman Darrell Issa’s staff said in a new report, setting up a constitutional confrontation
On Tuesday’s “Politics Nation” on MSNBC, Rep. Elijah Cummings lashed out at his House Oversight Committee collegue, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). According to Cummings, Issa had gone rogue in his duty as committee chairman. Partial transcript as follows: REV. AL
First, the Justice Department began targeting them with “Operation Choke Point.” Now a new non-profit group is fighting back. The new group, the United States Consumer Coalition (USCC), has launched a “whistleblower website” asking for the secretive program’s victims to
California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who is running for governor, recently pointed out that his rival Neel Kashkari “supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.” The charge was true, but
U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly for his recent comments accusing gubernatorial rival Neel Kashkari of association with Islamic sharia law during Kashkari’s tenure at the U.S. Treasury. “There is
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), the House Republicans’ most prominent face of its investigations into the Obama administration, may not be a member of the new Benghazi select committee, according to a House leadership aide. Rep.
It seems as if there could be a little internal Republican strife going on in Washington about who will lead the House Select Committee investigation on the consulate attack in Benghazi. First of all, everyone should take issue with Boehner
This morning the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and financial investment executive, announced that he has been endorsed by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The endorsement by Bush incomes on the heels of
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released emails Wednesday afternoon showing that Lois Lerner coordinated with Rep. Elijah Cummings and committee Democrats multiple times between 2012 and 2013, providing them information they requested about True the Vote, the 501(c)(4)
The heat in the IRS investigation just went up. Rep. Darrell Issa, head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter today to ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings in which he accuses Cummings of working to
Wednesday on Fox News Channel “The Five,” left-leaning co-host Bob Beckel showed his unhappiness with House Oversight Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) holding another hearing about the IRS targeting conservative groups who applied for tax-exempt status. When his co-host Eric
Lois Lerner loves her Fifth Amendment rights. Of course, this is a bit ironic for someone whose office at the IRS repeatedly blocked the exercise of First Amendment rights by conservative groups. In a stunning show of government overreach and
On Thursday House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued a subpoena to Environment Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy for documents related to the agency’s unprecedented use of an obscure section of the Clean Water Act to
In a letter sent today, Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, accuses ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings of acting as if he were a defense attorney for former IRS employee Lois Lerner. He also
House Democrats took to the floor on Thursday and lifted their iPads and smart phones with pictures of Darrell Issa (R-CA) over their heads as a show of support for Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who had his mic turned off
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said he is incensed about allegations the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, calling it “treason.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Tuesday accused the spy agency of
Darrell Issa’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a staff report Tuesday aimed squarely at Lois Lerner and her involvement in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. The report suggests Lerner misled Congress in four instances and attempted to
On the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Roland Martin interviewed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) about House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) cutting off Cummings microphone this week at a hearing on the IRS scandal… At first Cummings accused Issa of
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) went on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record” on Wednesday to discuss the IRS hearing that Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth and Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) emotional outburst following the adjournment of the hearing… Follow Pam
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing on the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profit applicants. The hearing, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), quickly devolved into chaos after former IRS official Lois Lerner repeatedly used the Fifth Amendment
On this weekend’s “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced former IRS official Lois Lerner will testify at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday… UPDATE: Lerner’s attorney, William W. Taylor, told Politico after the Fox
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is bringing Lois Lerner back to testify before Congress on the IRS scandal next week. Lerner, the key Obama IRS official at the center of the scandal where
CONCORD, New Hampshire–Raising eyebrows with a well-publicized trip to New Hampshire, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) says he is just trying to “shape” the 2016 debate. “I want to be part of shaping the debate both for the Republican Party and
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is spending part of the congressional recess wooing fellow Republicans in New Hampshire this week, prompting some to wonder if Issa is laying out the foundations of a presidential run
Other than the basic fact that he dearly wants a bill, Speaker John Boehner’s specific plans on immigration have remained shrouded in mystery since the 2012 elections. Now two key immigration hawks are pressing him for answers in a letter
