California Congressman Wont Run Again Darryl Issa

U.Southward. Representative from California

Darrell Issa
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2021
Preceded by	Duncan D. Hunter
Constituency	50th district
In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2019
Preceded by	Ron Packard
Succeeded by	Mike Levin
Constituency	48th district (2001–2003) 49th district (2003–2019)
Chair of the House Oversight Committee
In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2015
Preceded by	Edolphus Towns
Succeeded by	Jason Chaffetz
Personal details
Born	Darrell Edward Issa (1953-11-01) November 1, 1953 (age 68) Cleveland, Ohio, U.Due south.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(southward)	Kathy Stanton ​ (m. 1980)​
Children	1
Residence(due south)	Vista, California, U.S.
Didactics	Siena Heights University (BA) Kent State University at Stark
Signature
Website	House website
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1970–1972 1976–1980
Rank	Captain
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Darrell Edward Issa ( ICE-ə; built-in Nov i, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who has served equally the U.South. representative for California's 50th congressional commune since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United states of america House of Representatives from 2001 to 2019, representing 2 districts primarily covering North County in the San Diego expanse, beginning the 48th commune for one term then the 49th district. From January 2011 to January 2015, he chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Issa served equally CEO of Directed Electronics, which he co-founded in 1982. Information technology is one of the largest makers of automobile aftermarket security and convenience products in the United States. With a net worth of approximately $250 1000000, Issa is the second-wealthiest serving fellow member of Congress.

On January 10, 2018, Issa announced that he would not seek reelection to the Business firm.^[iii] Democrat Mike Levin was elected on November 6, 2018 to get the district'southward next representative.^[4] On September xix, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Issa to be director of the U.s. Trade and Development Agency.^{[5] [half dozen]}

On September 26, 2019, Issa appear that he was running for California's 50th congressional district in the 2020 election.^{[seven] [8]} He placed second in the March top-2 master, advancing to confront Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar in the Nov general election.^[9] Issa defeated Campa-Najjar.^[10]

Early life, education and military service

The 2d of six children, Issa was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Martha (née Bielfelt) and William Issa, who sold trucks and footing valves.^{[xi] [12]} His begetter was the son of Lebanese Christian immigrants, and a member of the Maronite Catholic faith. His mother is of High german and Bohemian (Czech) descent and a Latter-twenty-four hours Saint.^{[xiii] [fourteen] [15]}

During his childhood, the big family unit moved to a iii-bedroom firm in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland Heights. Many of Issa's friends were Jewish, and he reportedly worked for a rabbi at one indicate. He became very familiar with Jewish culture.^[16]

In 1970, on his 17th birthday, Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Regular army.^{[sixteen] [17]} He became an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician assigned to the 145th Ordnance Detachment.^[18] Trained to defuse bombs, Issa has said that his unit provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs before games in the 1971 Earth Serial.^[xix] A May 1998 investigation past Lance Williams of the San Francisco Examiner plant that Nixon had not attended any 1971 World Series games, merely that Issa'southward unit did perform security sweeps during the serial. First Lady Pat Nixon was present at Game two of the serial, where she threw the kickoff pitch.^[xx] After the serial, Issa was transferred to a supply depot, a issue of receiving poor ratings.^[16]

Issa received a hardship belch from the Army in 1972 after his father suffered a heart assault, After that, he earned a General Educational Evolution (GED) certificate.^[16]

Twice that twelvemonth, Issa was arrested. In the offset incident, a 1000 jury indicted him for theft of a Maserati, in a complicated scheme with his brother William, simply prosecutors dropped the accuse.^{[21] [16]} In the second incident, he was stopped for driving the incorrect way on a one-way street, and a police officeholder noticed a firearm in his machine'southward glove compartment; Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm and was sentenced to six months' probation and a minor fine.^[21] Issa has said he believes the record has since been expunged.^[16]

Issa majored in business organization administration at Siena Heights University, a small Roman Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan, completing his degree at Stark campus of Kent State University.^{[22] [23]} While at Kent Country, he enrolled in the Reserve Officeholder Training Corps; at graduation he was commissioned as a second lieutenant.^[16]

Issa served in the Army Reserve from 1976 to 1980, and was promoted to captain.^[24] From September nine–26, 1980, Issa served on agile duty while grooming with the 1/77th Armor Battalion as an Assistant S-i. His evaluation report, by so-Lt. Col. Wesley Clark, read, "This officeholder's performance far exceeded that of any other reserve officer who has worked in the battalion" and "Promote ahead of contemporaries. Unlimited potential."^{[16] [25] [26]}

Presently before his belch from the Army in 1980, Issa was once more indicted for grand theft auto. The prosecution dropped the case in Baronial 1980. In 1981, Issa was in a automobile crash. The other motorist sued him for $twenty,000; they somewhen settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.^[sixteen]

Business concern career

Quantum/Steal Stopper

After leaving the military machine, Issa and his second wife, Kathy Stanton, returned to the Cleveland area. According to Issa, he and his wife pooled their savings, sold their cars (a 1976 Mercedes and a 1967 VW Beetle) and a BMW motorcycle, and borrowed $50,000 from family unit members to invest in Quantum Enterprises, an electronics manufacturer run by a friend from Cleveland Heights. Information technology assembled bug zappers, CB radio parts, and other consumer products for other companies. 1 of those clients, car warning manufacturer Steal Stopper, became the path to Issa's fortune. It was struggling badly, and he took control of it by foreclosing a $sixty,000 loan he had made to it when its founder, Joey Adkins, missed a payment. Adkins remained as an employee.^[16]

Issa soon turned Steal Stopper effectually, to the betoken that it was supplying Ford with thousands of motorcar alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. Early on in the morning of September seven, 1982, Quantum and Steal Stopper's offices and factory in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out. The buildings and about all the inventory within were destroyed. An investigation of the fire noted "suspicious burn patterns" with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerant such as gasoline.^[16]

Adkins said Issa had appeared to set for a burn past increasing the fire insurance policy past 462% three weeks earlier, and by removing figurer equipment containing bookkeeping and customer information. St. Paul Insurance, suspicious of arson and insurance fraud, initially paid only $25,000, co-ordinate to Issa.^{[16] [27]}

Directed Electronics

Steal Stopper soon returned a profit again. Every bit car theft rose in the U.S. during the 1980s, so did the demand for security devices. Rolls Royce, BMW, and Full general Motors joined Ford and Toyota as customers of Steal Stopper. In 1985, Issa sold the company to a California-based maker of domicile alarms, and moved to the San Diego suburb of Vista, to work for the company.^[16]

Soon afterward, Issa left to offset Directed Electronics, Inc. (DEI). He has connected to alive in Vista.^[sixteen] Issa used his noesis of the weaknesses in automotive security to develop effective theft deterrents. Using sensors that, when armed, would discover motion and pressure on the car's body, his device made loud noise to draw attention to a would-be car thief, such as the car'due south horn honking or a speaker playing a recording with Issa's vocalisation saying: "Protected past Viper. Stand dorsum" and "Please stride away from the automobile", warnings for DEI'south signature product, the Viper car alarm.^[28] Sales grew from $1 meg in the company'south first yr to $fourteen million by 1989.^[16]

Greene Properties

Issa is partner in 17 limited partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs) that ain commercial backdrop across Northward San Diego County.^[29] He is CEO of Greene Properties, Inc., a privately held existent manor investment company with commercial real manor holdings in San Diego Northward County. Headquartered in Vista, it manages iii commercial office buildings in Carlsbad with a total of 26,354 foursquare feet. Employees include his wife and son William "Will" Issa as assistant property manager.^[30] The office is in the same edifice as Issa'south former congressional role, near their house of the concluding 20 years.

Early political career

Activism

Agile in consumer-electronics trade organizations, Issa became more directly involved in politics. He went to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress and later became one of California'due south biggest individual campaign contributors to Republican candidates. In 1996, he chaired the successful campaign to pass California Proposition 209, a ballot initiative that prohibited Californian public institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity in public employment, public contracting, or public education. He was instrumental in persuading the national Republican Party to concur its 1996 convention in San Diego.^{[2] [16]}

1998 U.S. Senate ballot

Issa's first campaign for elected office was in 1998, when he sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to face incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer. He spent $x meg of his own money in the master, running confronting California State Treasurer Matt Fong, Congressman Frank Riggs, and 3 others. Fong's entrada raised $3 million from contributions and complained that Issa's wealth made for an uneven playing field (Issa received but $400,000 in contributions from others). An Issa spokesman countered that the coin was needed to recoup for Fong's statewide name recognition.^[31] Issa lost to Fong, 45% to 40%; Riggs got ten% of the vote. A San Francisco leave poll suggested large numbers of Asian Americans, who typically vote in the Autonomous primary, had crossed party lines to strategically vote for Fong.^[32]

U.S. Business firm of Representatives

Elections

2000

Nine-term incumbent Republican U.South. Congressman Ron Packard decided not to run for reelection in 2000, in California'south 48th congressional commune. Issa ran for the seat, capitalizing on his name recognition from the 1998 Senate race. The commune was primarily based in northern San Diego County, merely had pocket-size portions in Riverside and Orangish counties. Issa finished first in the all-party primary with 35% of the vote, winning a plurality in all three counties; Republican State Senator Bill Morrow was 2nd, with 24% of the votes.^{[33] [34]} Issa won the November general election, defeating Democratic nominee Peter Kouvelis 61%–28%.^{[35] [36]}

2002

After redistricting, Issa's district was renumbered the 49th and lost its share of Orange County. Like its predecessor, the commune was still overwhelmingly Republican; it had a Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) of R+10. No Democrat filed against Issa that year. He was reelected, defeating Libertarian nominee Karl Dietrich, 77%–22%.^[37]

2004

A write-in candidate from the 2002 election, Mike Byron, became the Democratic challenger in 2004.^[38] Issa was reelected to a third term, defeating Byron 63%–35%.^[39]

2006

Issa was reelected to a fourth term, defeating Democratic nominee Jeeni Criscenzo, 63%–33%.^[40] He was 1 of four Arab-American members in that Congress.^[41] He has said that he identified primarily as Lebanese, not equally pan-Arab.

2008

Issa was reelected to a fifth term, defeating Democratic nominee Robert Hamilton, 58%–37%. The 21-indicate margin of victory was the second smallest in Issa's career. He carried San Diego with lx% of the vote and Riverside with 57% of the vote.^[42]

2010

Issa was reelected to a sixth term, defeating Democratic nominee Howard Katz, 63%–31%.^[43]

2012

After the 2010 census, Issa's district was renumbered the 49th and fabricated significantly more meaty. It lost its share of Riverside County, along with most of its share of San Diego County. Information technology gained a modest portion of southern Orange County, including San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, and part of Laguna Niguel. The district was more competitive on newspaper than its predecessor. The old 49th had a PVI of R+10, while the new 49th has a PVI of R+four.

Issa was reelected to a seventh term, defeating Democratic nominee Jerry Tetalman, 58%–42%. The 16-point margin of victory was the smallest in Issa's political career. Issa carried the San Diego portion of his district with 55% of the vote and the Orange County office with 66%.^{[44] [45]}

2014

The June open primary was contested by Issa and two Democrats: Dave Peiser and Noboru Isaga. The top 2 vote-getters, Issa (62%) and Peiser (28%), advanced to the general election.^{[46] [47]} Issa was elected to an 8th term, 60% to 40%.^{[48] [49]}

2016

In the June open primary, Issa received 51% of the vote to 46% for Democrat Doug Applegate, a retired Marine colonel.^[50] Issa and Applegate advanced to the full general election in November.^[51] In Oct, Applegate and Issa were ranked by the Cook Political Report equally equally probable to win.

Issa sent out a entrada mailer that featured a photograph of President Barack Obama signing a law. The mailer said that Issa was "very pleased" that Obama signed the Sexual Assail Survivors' Rights Act, which Issa had co-sponsored.

Unusually, President Obama responded to this late campaign mailer by maxim that Issa's "primary contribution to the U.S. Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped up investigations that accept led nowhere." Obama said that, considering of fading support for Donald Trump, Issa was promoting his cooperation with the president although he had previously accused Obama of abuse.^[52]

Issa said, "I've worked with the administration on good legislation where it was possible, called out wrongdoing wherever I saw it and will continue to do so."^[53]

On November 23, 2016, Issa held a three,234-vote lead with approximately 6,000 ballots still uncounted. He alleged victory, only Applegate had not conceded.^[54] The Associated Printing finally declared Issa the winner on November 28, citing a small but convincing lead with only a few votes left to count.^[55]

2018

Multiple Democrats, including Applegate and environmental attorney Mike Levin, launched campaigns for California'southward 49th commune seat.^[56] Given the close margin in 2016, the election was expected to exist highly competitive.^[57] For months, Issa's Vista part was the site of weekly protests. Hundreds of people gathered to protestation against Trump and his agenda and actions. At a May rally, 800 people showed upwards to protest the House vote to repeal and supplant the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).^[58] On January x, 2018, Issa announced that he would not run for reelection.^[iii] Democrat Mike Levin won the seat.

2020

On September 26, 2019, Issa announced that he was running for California'south 50th congressional district in the 2020 election.^{[7] [8]} The incumbent was Republican Duncan D. Hunter, and so under indictment. In December 2019, Hunter pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and resigned from Congress effective January 13, 2020, leaving the seat vacant.^[59]

In redistricting, the 50th district had absorbed much of Issa's former base in strongly Republican San Diego County. Issa placed second in the March 3, 2020, blanket primary and beat Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar by near xxx,000 votes in the general election. Issa said he could switch districts because he owns his mother's home in Bonsall. Equally noted above, he has long lived in Vista, where he has raised his family.

Tenure

Oversight committee

Subsequently the 2010 elections, Issa became chair of the Business firm Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was a song advocate for investigations into the Obama administration, including the Troubled Avails Relief Programme, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, corruption in Afghanistan, WikiLeaks, and the Food and Drug Assistants, amid other topics.^[sixty] In 2010 he told the press that he wanted the committee to hold investigative hearings "7 hearings a calendar week, times twoscore weeks."^[61]

In February 2011, the Watchdog Found, a nonprofit investigative reporting center based at San Diego State University, published an investigation alleging that as leader of the commission, Issa congenital a squad that included staff members with close connections to industries that could benefit from his investigations.^[62]

On February sixteen, 2012, the commission held a hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services's regulation requiring insurance plans to cover birth control, which Issa believed to be a violation of the religious liberty of people who oppose the use of nascence control. Democratic members submitted attorney and activist Sandra Fluke equally a witness for promoting women'due south health, but Issa did not allow her to prove, saying her name was submitted too late,^[63] a claim Democrats challenged.^[64]

Legislation

In 2013 Issa introduced the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013 (H.R. 2061; 113th Congress).^[65] H.R. 2061 aimed to make information on federal expenditures more than easily available, attainable, and transparent.^[66] President Obama signed the bill into law on May 9, 2014.^[67]

Issa introduced the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Deed of 2014 (H.R. 1211; 113th Congress) on March 15, 2013, a bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act in guild to make it easier and faster to request and receive information.^{[68] [69]} The bill would accept required the Part of Management and Budget to create a single FOIA website for people to utilise to make FOIA requests and check on the status of their asking. Information technology would also accept created a Main FOIA Officers Council charged with reviewing compliance and recommending improvements,^[68] and required the federal agency to release the data it disclosed to the person who requested it publicly subsequently.^[69]

Issa argued in favor of the pecker because it "shifts the burden of proof from the public requestor seeking data almost a government bureau...to the government being open up and transparent unless it has a good reason to withhold."^[70] The bill passed the House unanimously on Feb 25, 2014,^[71] only a nearly identical Senate bill failed when it was tabled by House Speaker John Boehner.^[72]

Issa introduced the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Deed (H.R. 1232; 113th Congress) on March eighteen, 2013, to brand changes and reforms to the framework that manages how the federal government buys new engineering.^[73] One of the requirements would exist that the government develop a streamlined program for its acquisitions.^[74] The bill would increment the power of federal agencies' chief information officers (CIO) so that they could be more effective.^[75]

Each bureau would also be reduced to having only ane CIO, who would exist responsible for the success and failure of the agency's IT projects.^[76] The pecker would besides crave the federal government to make use of private sector best practices.^[75] The bill was intended to reduce It procurement-related waste.^[77] Information technology passed the House in a voice vote on February 25, 2014.^[74] In Dec 2014 information technology passed as a department of the National Defense Authorization Human activity for Fiscal Twelvemonth 2015.^[78] Issa likewise introduced and co-sponsored The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (Pub.50. 113–283, South. 2521; commonly referred to as FISMA Reform), which Obama signed into law on December eighteen, 2014.^{[79] [80]}

On May 7, 2014, Issa introduced a simple resolution in the House that passed without objection Recommending that the House of Representatives find Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Regime Reform. The resolution holds Lois Lerner, i of the central Internal Revenue Service officials involved in the 2013 IRS scandal, in contempt of Congress for her refusal to testify nearly the scandal earlier Issa'southward commission in response to a subpoena.^{[81] [82] [83]}

In July 2017, Issa introduced the CLASSICS Act to Congress in a bipartisan effort to empower artists by collecting royalties for the preceding three-year flow and as well past ensuring their artistic rights remain in force for pre-1972 recordings just every bit newer artists are guaranteed by electric current legislation. Issa has been a consistent cosponsor of the Fair Play Off-white Pay Human action as well; granting radio performance rights for musicians and record producers.^{[84] [85] [86]}

Bombing plot

In 2001, Issa'southward San Clemente district role was targeted in an aborted bombing plot. Jewish Defense League leader Irving Rubin was arrested along with Earl Krugel in connection with the plot, which reportedly had focused on other targets earlier shifting to Issa's part.^{[13] [87]} Issa speculated that the cause of the incident may have been a column written by political commentator Debbie Schlussel in which she charged that Issa sympathized with Hezbollah despite its being listed past the U.S. authorities every bit a terrorist system, charges he denied.^{[thirteen] [88] [89]}

Ideals complaints and 2010 laurels

In September 2011, a liberal advocacy and lobbying group, American Family Voices, filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Issa, alleging he had repeatedly used his position of potency on the Oversight Committee to improperly intervene in dealings with Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and DEI Holdings, all of which Issa is associated with in some way. Issa'southward office rejected the allegations.^[90]

The year before, the Projection on Government Oversight, a authorities watchdog group, gave Issa its Good Government Award for his contributions to regime oversight and transparency. These included publicizing documents produced by the New York Federal Reserve Bank in response to a congressional amendment, publicly exposing the NYFR'south underground "back-door bailout" of AIG's counterparties, and cofounding a Transparency Conclave dedicated to "promoting a more than open and answerable government through pedagogy, legislation, and oversight."^{[91] [92]} In 2012 Issa featured in TechCrunch's listing of "The xx Most Innovative People in Democracy."^[93]

In belatedly Feb 2021, Issa and a dozen other Republican House members skipped votes and enlisted others to vote for them, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, while actually attending the Bourgeois Political Action Conference, which was held at the same time every bit their slated absences.^[94] In response, the Campaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog grouping, filed a complaint with the Business firm Commission on Ideals and requested an investigation into Issa and the other lawmakers.^[95]

Committee assignments

• Commission on Strange Affairs
  • Subcommittee on the Middle East and Due north Africa
  • Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Merchandise
• Commission on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Belongings and the Internet (chair)
  • Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law

Caucus memberships

• Congressional Constitution Conclave^[96]
• Congressional NextGen nine-1-1 Caucus^[97]
• Climate Solutions Caucus^[98]
• Freedom Conclave^[99]
• Congressional Armenian Conclave^[100]
• Republican Study Committee^[101]

Political positions

Issa voted with the bulk of House Republicans 95% of the fourth dimension during the 111th Congress.^[102]

9/xi beginning responders

In April 2008, the Daily News reported that Issa questioned federal expenditures pertaining to disability-bounty claims from nine/xi first responders. He was criticized for making comments that the federal government "'just threw' buckets of greenbacks at New York for an attack 'that had no muddy bomb in information technology, it had no chemic munitions in it'" and request "why the firefighters who went there and everybody in the urban center of New York needs to come to the federal government for the dollars versus this existence primarily a state consideration."^[103] In September 2009, Issa'due south office released a statement indicating that his comments had been misrepresented and that the questions he asked concerned the so withal unpassed bill H.R. 3543, which, according to that argument, "would give U.S. taxpayer dollars to those who did not endure physical injury and did non work at or around Ground Zero."^{[104] [105]}

2003 gubernatorial recall election

Issa came to national prominence in 2003 when he contributed more $one.half-dozen million to help fund a signature-gathering drive for the petition to recall California Governor Gray Davis. At the time he made the contribution, information technology was widely believed that Issa intended to place himself on the ballot to supplant Davis. But after young man Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the race two days before the filing borderline, Issa announced that he would non run.^[106] Issa later said his mission had been accomplished with Davis's recall and that he wanted to continue to stand for his commune in Congress and work toward Eye Due east peace.^[21] At one point in the campaign he suggested people^{[ clarification needed ]} should vote against recalling Davis unless one of the two leading Republican contenders dropped out, concerned that Schwarzenegger and fellow Republican Tom McClintock would carve up votes, resulting in Democratic Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante being elected to succeed Davis.^[107] Issa endorsed Schwarzenegger, who won the governorship when Davis was recalled.

Cannabis

As of 2022, marijuana legalization advancement group NORML gave Issa a "F" rating for his cannabis-related voting record.^[108]

Donald Trump

Issa attracted attention for his shut relationship with and strong support for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential ballot.^{[109] [110] [111]} He endorsed Trump in March 2016.^[112] When the Donald Trump and Billy Bush-league recording surfaced, Issa condemned Trump's remarks merely did not rescind his endorsement.^[113]

In early on February 2017, Issa expressed his back up for a special prosecutor to wait into Trump's ties to Russia. On Feb 27, he walked dorsum his previous comments.^[114] Issa supported Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, saying "Comey had lost my confidence long agone."^[115]

Equally of May 2017, Issa had voted in line with Trump'south positions 100% of the fourth dimension; by October 2018, that number had fallen to 93.3%.^[116]

On January vii, 2021, afterward Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, Issa voted to turn down the certification of Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.^[117] He voted confronting impeaching Trump on an article of impeachment of "incitement of coup" in the backwash of the attack on the Capitol.^[118] In May 2021, Issa voted against the creation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6 attack.^[119]

Environs

Earlier the 2010 ballot, Issa pledged that, if elected, he would probe "Climategate", which refers to the hacked Climatic Research Unit emails that climate change denialists falsely asserted showed scientific misconduct and fraud by climate scientists.^[120] Issa called Obama'due south unwillingness to investigate Climategate "unconscionable" and an abdication of responsibility.^[121]

Foreign and defense force policy

In 2001, Issa voted for the authorization of the PATRIOT Human activity and the cosmos of the Department of Homeland Security.^{[122] [ failed verification ]} He voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act in 2005 after successfully amending it to require judicial notification, reporting requirements and facts justifying the apply of roving surveillance at new facilities or places.^[123]

Issa is one of several Lebanese-Americans in Congress.^[124] He had a significant part in U.Due south. peace initiatives in the Middle East. He traveled to Lebanon and Syrian arab republic in an effort to negotiate the cease of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. In 2003, he appeared at a Washington rally by Iranian groups protesting confronting the Islamist government in Iran.^[125]

In March 2015, Issa supported the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, saying, "Nosotros must make information technology clear that we will support our allies and punish our enemies through steadfast resolve and decisive action."^[126]

In June 2021, Issa was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Republic of iraq.^{[127] [128]}

Healthcare

Issa favors repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and voted in support of the budget resolution to repeal information technology in Jan 2017.^{[129] [130]}

On May iv, 2017, Issa voted to repeal Obamacare and laissez passer the American Health Care Act.^{[131] [132]}

The arrangement San Diego Indivisible protested outside Issa'south office weekly.^{[ when? ] [133]} After Issa voted for the AHCA, about 800 people from the organisation protested, on the grounds that a significant portion of Issa'due south voters rely on the ACA.^[133] The grouping was also unhappy nearly a photo in which Issa stood "front and center" in tribute to Republicans' success in passing the AHCA.^[134]

Instead of coming back to California to meet the protesters, Issa flew to an event in Florida to enhance money, though he said he would meet with them later on.^{[134] [133]}

The next Friday, over 100 people protested his desire to defund Planned Parenthood.^[133]

An organization called Salve My Care spent $500,000 to release a serial of set on ads against 24 House members who voted for the AHCA, including one most Issa.^{[135] [136]}

LGBT rights

Issa voted against an amendment, which ultimately failed narrowly, that stated that religious corporations, associations and institutions that receive federal contracts cannot be discriminated against on the basis of organized religion. Democrats warn that such a provision could potentially permit discrimination against the LGBT community in the proper name of religious freedom.^[137]

Online piracy

Issa opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act considering of the amount of discretion it would give the Department of Justice.^[138]

Russian hacking of 2016 ballot

Issa said he believed Russian federation meddled with the 2016 election, simply that he supported Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey (who was leading the investigation into the meddling) and that the U.S. should focus on other problems.^[139]

Science

Issa supports embryonic stem cell inquiry and has voted to allow it.^[140]

He co-sponsored both the 2008 and 2009 versions of the Fair Copyright in Inquiry Works Deed and sponsored the Inquiry Works Act (H.R. 3699) introduced in 2011, all of which aim at a reversal of the NIH's Public Access Policy,^[141] which mandates open up access to NIH-funded research.^[142]

Revenue enhancement reform

Issa voted confronting the Revenue enhancement Cuts and Jobs Deed of 2017. He was one of 2 California Republicans to vote against the nib, alongside Dana Rohrabacher.^[143] Issa expressed concern that "many" of his constituents would face up increased taxes under the proposal and that "Californians have entrusted me to fight for them. I will not make the incredible tax burden they already endure even worse."^[144]

Personal life

In the 1970s, Issa married his high school sweetheart, Marcia Enyart. They somewhen divorced. After he left the armed services, Issa married Kathy Stanton. The 2 met while neighbors, when Stanton locked her keys within her flat and Issa climbed upward the balcony to get into her apartment.^[145]

See also

• List of richest American politicians
• List of Arab and Middle Eastern Americans in the United States Congress

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External links

• Darrell Issa campaign website

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart
• Fiscal data (federal office) at the Federal Ballot Committee
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Darrell Issa at Curlie
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• "Darrell Issa - About - Facebook". Facebook . Retrieved November 12, 2016.

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