“We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said perhaps because of the money, the amount of TARP and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government history, and it is proving to be just exactly that.” House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said he is putting his foot down on “corrupt” government financial dealings in the wake of scandals at the Secret Service and the General Services Administation (GSA).
“We have a role to play because we passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act some years ago,” the California Republican said in a Tuesday interview with Bloomberg’s “InBusiness.”
“We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said perhaps because of the money, the amount of TARP and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government history, and it is proving to be just exactly that.
“This money going though the hands of political leaders is corrupting the process, whether it is Solyndra, GSA, or a number of other scandals.”
Issa came under fire last year for his statement — which he later retracted — that President Obama was one of the most corrupt presidents in history. Now, Issa is taking aim at the government as a whole, citing the $535 million government loan guarantee to Solyndra and the $823,000 Las Vegas conference held by GSA in 2010.
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