Editing Darrell Issa (section)

===Tenure===
====Oversight committee====
After the 2010 elections, Issa became chair of the [[House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]]. He was a vocal advocate for investigations into the [[Obama administration]], including the [[Troubled Assets Relief Program]], the [[Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission]], corruption in [[Afghanistan]], [[WikiLeaks]], and the [[Food and Drug Administration]], among other topics.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/01/republican-plans-investigations-of-corrupt-obama-investigation/1 |title=Republican plans investigations of 'corrupt' Obama administration|date=January 3, 2011|work=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> In 2010 he told the press that he wanted the committee to hold investigative hearings "seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks."<ref name="hearings">{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44850.html |title=Darrell Issa plans hundreds of hearings|date=November 8, 2010 |publisher=[[Politico]]}}</ref>

In February 2011, the Watchdog Institute, a nonprofit investigative reporting center based at [[San Diego State University]], published an investigation alleging that as leader of the committee, Issa built a team that included staff members with close connections to industries that could benefit from his investigations.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/darrell-issa-team_n_829046.html|title=Darrell Issa's Team Includes Industry Insiders |last=Snyder|first=Whitney|date=February 28, 2011|publisher=[[HuffPost]]|access-date=December 4, 2011}}</ref>

On February 16, 2012, the committee held a hearing on the [[Department of Health and Human Services]]'s [[contraceptive mandate|regulation requiring insurance plans to cover birth control]], which Issa believed to be a violation of the religious freedom of people who oppose the use of birth control. Democratic members submitted attorney and activist [[Sandra Fluke]] as a witness for promoting women's health, but Issa did not permit her to testify, saying her name was submitted too late,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/where-are-the-women-dispute-settled-kind-of/2012/03/27/gIQA8tGHgS_story.html |title='Where are the women?' dispute settled. Kind of.|last=O'Keefe|first=Ed|date=March 28, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> a claim Democrats challenged.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/meet-sandra-fluke-the-woman-you-didnt-hear-at-congress-contraceptives-hearing/2012/02/16/gIQAJh57HR_blog.html|title=Contraception Controversy Continues: Meet Witness Sandra Fluke|last=Kiff|first=Sarah|date=February 16, 2012|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=March 3, 2012}}</ref>

====Legislation====
In 2013 Issa introduced the [[Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013 (H.R. 2061; 113th Congress)]].<ref name="2061allactions">{{cite web|url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2061/all-actions|title=H.R. 2061 – All Actions|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=November 18, 2013}}</ref> H.R. 2061 aimed to make information on federal expenditures more easily available, accessible, and transparent.<ref name="cbo2061">{{cite web |url=http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44793|title=CBO – H.R. 2061|date=November 13, 2013|publisher=Congressional Budget Office|access-date=November 18, 2013}}</ref> President Obama signed the bill into law on May 9, 2014.<ref name=994allactions>{{cite web|title=S. 994 - All Actions |url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/994/all-actions/|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=April 28, 2014}}</ref>

Issa introduced the [[FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 (H.R. 1211; 113th Congress)]] on March 15, 2013, a bill to amend the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] in order to make it easier and faster to request and receive information.<ref name="cbo1211">{{cite web|url=http://cbo.gov/publication/44264|title=H.R. 1211 – CBO|date=May 21, 2013|publisher=Congressional Budget Office |access-date=February 26, 2014}}</ref><ref name="politicoGold">{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/02/house-unanimously-passes-foia-bill-184049.html|title=House unanimously passes FOIA bill|last=Gold|first=Hadas|date=February 26, 2014 |access-date=February 27, 2014 |newspaper=[[Politico]]}}</ref> The bill would have required the [[Office of Management and Budget]] to create a single FOIA website for people to use to make FOIA requests and check on the status of their request. It would also have created a Chief FOIA Officers Council charged with reviewing compliance and recommending improvements,<ref name="cbo1211"/> and required the federal agency to release the information it disclosed to the person who requested it publicly afterward.<ref name="politicoGold"/>

Issa argued in favor of the bill because it "shifts the burden of proof from the public requestor seeking information about a government agency...to the government being open and transparent unless it has a good reason to withhold."<ref name="nextgov1">{{cite news|url=http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2014/02/house-passes-bill-put-more-foia-processing-online/79447/?oref=ng-dropdown |title=House passes bill to put more FOIA processing online|last=Marks|first=Joseph|date=February 26, 2014|access-date=February 27, 2014 |newspaper=NextGov.com}}</ref> The bill passed the House unanimously on February 25, 2014,<ref name="1211allactions">{{cite web|url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1211/all-actions|title=H.R. 1211 – All Actions|date=February 26, 2014|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=February 26, 2014}}</ref> but a nearly identical Senate bill failed when it was tabled by House Speaker [[John Boehner]].<ref>{{Cite episode|publisher=PBS|credits=Robert Collins (Director)|title=Push to Reform the Freedom of Information Act Collapses in House|work=Media - Frontline|series=Frontline|access-date=December 14, 2014|date=14 December 2014|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/media/push-to-reform-the-freedom-of-information-act-collapses-in-house/}}</ref>

Issa introduced the [[Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (H.R. 1232; 113th Congress)]] on March 18, 2013, to make changes and reforms to the framework that manages how the federal government buys new technology.<ref name="1232sum">{{cite web |url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1232|title=H.R. 1232 – Summary |publisher=United States Congress |access-date=February 26, 2014}}</ref> One of the requirements would be that the government develop a streamlined plan for its acquisitions.<ref name="Hillhousevotes">{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/votes/199254-house-votes-to-fix-foia-process/|title=House votes unanimously to fix FOIA process|last=Kasperowicz|first=Pete|date=February 25, 2014 |access-date=February 27, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref> The bill would increase the power of federal agencies' [[chief information officer]]s (CIO) so that they could be more effective.<ref name="FedTimes1">{{cite news|url=http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140225/ACQ02/302250009/House-passes-FITARA?odyssey=nav%7Chead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140227202951/http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140225/ACQ02/302250009/House-passes-FITARA?odyssey=nav%7Chead|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2014|title=House passes FITARA|last=Hardy|first=Michael|date=February 25, 2014|access-date=February 27, 2014|newspaper=Federal Times}}</ref>

Each agency would also be reduced to having only one CIO, who would be responsible for the success and failure of the agency's IT projects.<ref name="NextGovMarks">{{cite news|url=http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/02/it-reform-act-heads-house-floor-today/79357/|title=IT Reform Act Heads to House Floor Tuesday|last=Marks|first=Joseph|date=February 25, 2014 |access-date=February 27, 2014|newspaper=NextGov.com}}</ref> The bill would also require the federal government to make use of private sector best practices.<ref name="FedTimes1" /> The bill was intended to reduce IT procurement-related waste.<ref name="WashTech1">{{cite news |url=http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2014/02/25/it-bill-vote-today.aspx|title=Acquisition reform effort hits the House floor |date=February 25, 2014|access-date=February 27, 2014|newspaper=Washington Technology}}</ref> It passed the House in a [[voice vote]] on February 25, 2014.<ref name="Hillhousevotes" /> In December 2014 it passed as a section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.actiac.org/groups/project-fitara |title=Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform ACT (FITARA)|work=ACT-IAC |access-date=March 4, 2017}}</ref> Issa also introduced and co-sponsored [[Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014|The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014]] (Pub.L. 113–283, S. 2521; commonly referred to as FISMA Reform), which Obama signed into law on December 18, 2014.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kominsky|first=Mitchell |date=February 2014|title=The Current Landscape of Cybersecurity Policy: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress |url=http://harvardnsj.org/2014/02/the-current-landscape-of-cybersecurity-policy-legislative-issues-in-the-113th-congress/ |journal=Harvard Law School National Security Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2521/text|title=S.2521, 113th Congress|date=December 18, 2014|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref>

On May 7, 2014, Issa introduced a [[simple resolution]] in the House (which passed 231 - 187): [[Finding Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress (H.Res. 574; 113th Congress)|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 Government Reform]]. The resolution holds [[Lois Lerner]], one of the central [[Internal Revenue Service]] officials involved in the [[2013 IRS scandal]], in [[contempt of Congress]] for her refusal to testify about the scandal before Issa's committee in response to a subpoena.<ref name="hres574sum">{{cite web|url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/574|title=H.Res. 574 – Summary|date=May 7, 2014|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=May 12, 2014}}</ref><ref>William Branigin and Ed O'Keefe, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lois-lerner-invokes-fifth-amendment-in-house-hearing-on-irs-targeting/2013/05/22/03539900-c2e6-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html "Lois Lerner invokes Fifth Amendment in House hearing on IRS targeting"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', May 22, 2013.</ref><ref name="variety">{{cite web|last1=Parisi|first1=Paula|title='Fair Play, Fair Pay' Radio-Royalty Act Gains Momentum, But Faces Uphill Climb|url=https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/fair-play-fair-pay-radio-royalty-act-gains-momentum-1202462359/|website=Variety|access-date=April 18, 2018|date=June 12, 2017}}</ref>

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 period and also by ensuring their creative rights remain in force for pre-1972 recordings just as newer artists are guaranteed by current legislation. Issa has been a consistent cosponsor of the Fair Play Fair Pay Act as well; granting radio performance rights for musicians and [[record producer]]s.<ref name="latimes">{{cite web|last1=Lewis|first1=Randy |title=Fair Play, Fair Pay Act of 2015 would require radio to pay for music |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-fair-play-fair-pay-act-congress-radio-royalties-20150413-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=April 18, 2018|date=April 13, 2015}}</ref><ref name="billbstaff">{{cite magazine|title=Garth Brooks, Tina Turner and Neil Young Join Call for CLASSICS Act Passage|url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/8099518/garth-brooks-tina-turner-and-neil-young-join-ad|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 18, 2018 |date=February 13, 2013}}</ref><ref name="classact">{{cite web|last1=Hertweck |first1=Nate|title=CLASSICS Act Champion Rep. Issa To Retire|url=https://www.grammy.com/advocacy/news/rep-darrell-issas-retirement-brings-new-urgency-classics-act|website=GRAMMY.com|access-date=April 18, 2018|date=January 12, 2018}}</ref>