If voters restore the Republican Party to the majority in the House of Representatives as many analysts now predict, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is set to become chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It’s not one of glory committees, but it is potentially among the most powerful and important because it can investigate any federal program. This makes service on the committee an opportunity for even the most humble representative to help combat the waste, fraud, and abuse that inevitably comes with ever-expanding government. Issa told CNN Monday that he would support legislation to give subpoena power to all of the 74 inspectors general in the executive branch. “We need the IGs to get answers,” he said. “I don’t need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking at where failure of government needs reform. You bring it back to Congress and we fix it.” Issa is exactly right.