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Article Title: Darrell Issa Investigation Benefits Ex-Aide
Snippet of Article: "...Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) has accused House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) of inappropriately intervening in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission case against a company being represented by a legal group run by a former Issa staffer...."
Article Title: Issa’s Missing Testimony
Snippet of Article: "...So here is the situation. We have a chairman on a fishing expedition who has nothing on Obama or any White House person. He also says things that aren’t true and never walks them back. He leaves out some things that are true but aren’t helpful to his “cause.” But he knows that he needs to milk this nonsense through 2014 or that frothing GOP base is going to bring some of that froth his way...."
Article Title: House GOP vents after sequestration threats fizzle
Snippet of Article: "...House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) launched an investigation last week into the White House’s role in persuading Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors to abandon their plans to send layoff warnings to hundreds of thousands of workers across the country...."
Article Title: House panel OKs higher federal employee contributions
Snippet of Article: "...Federal employees would contribute an additional 5% of their salary to their defined benefit pension plans under a bill approved Thursday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...."
Article Title: Budget-cutting proposals could affect federal employees
Snippet of Article: "...Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the oversight panel, recommended significantly larger employee retirement payments. ..."
Article Title: Pay freeze through 2015 part of Issa's super committee recs
Snippet of Article: "...calls for a pay freeze through 2015, a 10 percent cut to the workforce and cuts to federal retirement benefits. ..."
Article Title: Anti-union bill passes Republican-controlled Subcommittee
Snippet of Article: "...they want to destroy decent, union jobs and benefits. This bill alone, if it were to become law, will cost more than 100,000 postal workers their income and modest retirement.”..."
Article Title: Congressmen call for job-cutting priority at USPS
Snippet of Article: "...“These efforts simply have not resulted in the changes necessary to maintain a self-funding Postal Service,” the Congressman from Florida said. “Realigning the work force by re-examining labor agreements must be part of the strategy to improve the Postal Service fiscal foundations.”
Darrell Issa, the chairman of the subcommittee’s parent committee..."
Article Title: Lawmakers move to halt step increases, other raises for rest of year
Snippet of Article: "...Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on Tuesday proposed an amendment that would strip General Schedule employees of their regularly scheduled step increases for the rest of the year...."
