Darrell Issa's Office Denies Rumor That He's Threatening To Quit Unless He Stays Chair

[monmouth3]

WASHINGTON -- Rumors were rampant on Tuesday morning that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was threatening to resign from Congress unless House GOP leadership granted him a waiver to continue serving as chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

But no sooner had reporters begun asking the obvious suspects ("You're the fourth call on this already," one Republican leadership aide told The Huffington Post) did the gossip get shot down.

"Chairman Issa is fully focused on his current job at the Oversight Committee and running for reelection," Issa spokesman Frederick Hill said. The aforementioned leadership aide added his own rebuttal: "There is no truth to it."

Issa has not hidden the fact that he would like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to waive the Republican Party's limit on serving atop a committee for two consecutive sessions. In an interview with POLITICO, Issa argued that it would make sense for him to continue through the end of the Obama administration, in order to ensure continuity with the investigations he started upon taking the gavel in 2011.

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/darrell-issa-rumors_n_4943304.html

[MindMover]

1. In this case, if only rumor were truth ... nt

[Gothmog]

2. Let him resign

[Raine1967]

3. The last paragraph you posted along with this one:

The House leadership's hesitancy in granting Issa that waiver is driven in part by the presence of other lawmakers eager to run the committee. But it's also partly because if they granted an exemption to Issa, they would have a tough time denying it to chairs of other committees.

Makes this all very interesting.

Does anyone know where this rumor got started?

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. Oh noes

If he quits what other mentally incompetent congresscritter can I point and laugh at?

Oh... Wait... Never mind.

[Fozzledick]

5. Maybe he can just hold his breath until he turns blue!

[winter is coming]

6. There's only one way to publicly disprove that rumor...

[pinboy3niner]

7. In totally unrelated news, House leaders report their cars have been stolen...