You are right. Issa is from California and don't hold your breath just because he has an R after his name. He is useless.
Has Issa and Upton ever been seen in a room together?
Upton is just like him, profusely apologetic about incandescent light bulbs... promising to right the wrong... yet, here we still are banning them.
The problem isn't that he's from California--his district, stretching eastward from Oceanside into rural San Diego and Riverside Counties is as "red" as a tail light. However, it seems he may have caught Potomac fever. This is a malady, probably caused by Potomac mosquitos, which causes politicians who sell themselves to their constituents as conservatives to start going soft.