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September 21, 2022
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Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor disusssing H.R. 8873.

Watch the full remarks here and a transcript is below:

Madam Speaker:

September 21, 2022
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When Donald Trump left office, we had restored operational control of our southern border. The wall was nearing completion. Court ordered deportations were finally being enforced. The Migrant Protection Protocols negotiated with Mexico had reduced the number of fraudulent asylum claims to a trickle. All that Biden needed to do was to continue these policies. Instead, he reversed them on his first day in office. He ordered the border wall to be abandoned, leaving construction gaps that make it useless. He ordered ICE to cease enforcing the law. He ended Trump‘s remain-in-Mexico policy. And he sent a clear and unmistakable message heard around the world: America is now a nation without borders.
Issues:Illegal Immigration - Border Crisis
September 20, 2022
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As the tensions of civil war reached a boiling point, President Lincoln vainly reached out to Democrats with these words: “We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.” The contrast with Mr. Biden’s September 1st speech in Philadelphia is jarring.  In it and many remarks since, Mr. Biden clearly addresses the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump as enemies who – quote – “threaten the very foundation of our Republic.”  He condemned us as “extremists” who “do not respect the constitution” who “do not believe in the rule of law,” and who “refuse to accept the results of a free election.”  In other forums, he has called us “semi-fascists.” Mr. President, we revere our Constitution and the structure of individual liberty it was designed to protect.  We do not understand how a government established under that Constitution could use the FBI to pressure social media platforms to censor and suppress free speech, or to intimidate parents concerned about their school boards with threat tags, or to instruct its field offices to regard anyone who displays our founding American flags as a political extremist.
August 16, 2022
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Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks at the 2022 Lake Tahoe Summit on August 16th.

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Issues:Local IssuesLegislationForest Fire
August 12, 2022
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The Democrats printed and spent trillions of dollars we didn’t have and unleashed the worst inflation in forty years.  They waged war on American energy and plunged us into recession.     Now they are doubling down on these foolish policies.  It seems the more that some people invest in their mistakes, the less willing they are to admit them. 
Issues:Budget CommitteeFiscal and Economic
July 29, 2022
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This bill does nothing to reform the laws that have made active forest management impossible, and instead consigns us to fight a losing battle that will cost us our forests for generations to come.
Issues:Forest Fire
Many years ago, the last silicon chip manufacturer closed its operations in Silicon Valley because of the high tax, energy and regulatory costs of doing business in the United States.  Now we’ve suddenly decided we want them back.  Instead of addressing the problem by reducing the obstacles to domestic manufacturing, Congress will shell out $280 billion (about $2,240 per family) to bail out impoverished big tech moguls by substituting your dollars for theirs.  There’s a prevailing wage requirement to reward the unions, and just so the green left isn’t left out, there’s plenty of your money left over to finance green energy scams as well.  Starving big tech executives thank you for your family’s generous contribution to their welfare.  Good luck affording your next laptop.
Issues:Fiscal and EconomicGovernment Regulation
July 27, 2022
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DHS Secretary Ali Mayorkas has repeatedly asserted – including in sworn testimony to this committee -- that the southern border is secure. This, of course, is a lie and not even a subtle one.  
Issues:Illegal Immigration - Border CrisisJudiciary Committee
July 27, 2022
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Eighteen months ago, we had achieved operational control of our Southern Border. The border wall was nearing completion. The remain in Mexico policy and enforcement of court-ordered deportations had slowed illegal migration to a trickle. American workers were finally seeing major wage gains and the gap between rich and poor in this country was finally narrowing. All that ended on January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden cancelled the Remain in Mexico policy, ordered ICE to stop enforcing court-ordered deportations and cancelled the border wall, leaving construction gaps through which thousands of illegal immigrants pass every day.
Issues:Illegal Immigration - Border CrisisJudiciary Committee
Under the pretense of combating human smuggling, this bill hands out $1.1 billion to bloated foreign aid programs, resume workshops for noncitizens and other unaccountable grants to community groups and local governments.  It utterly ignores the human trafficking crisis unfolding on the southern border as crime cartels smuggle record numbers of unaccompanied minors into the country, which the Biden administration then traffics to a community near you with the help of your tax dollars.   
Issues:Foreign Affairs - International