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HR 2 – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act: NO

March 26, 2015

3/26/2015 - HR 2 – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act: NO. In 1997, Congress passed legislation to control Medicare spending by establishing a "Sustainable Growth Rate" (SGR) that limits the annual increase for physician reimbursements, but Congress never had the stomach to actually implement it. The result: every year Congress passes a "doc fix" to avoid the accumulated SGR cuts, often by cutting spending in other areas. This bill does away with the SGR altogether, which would be a good thing if it were actually offset by equal spending reforms. Regrettably, it isn't.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

H. Con. Res. 27 – Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2016: YES

March 25, 2015

Vote Notes on Legislation

3/25/15 - H. Con. Res. 27 – Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2016: YES. Sadly, the final version of the House Budget as amended on the floor declines to pay for $22.5 billion in additional spending for defense and refugee resettlement that was added to the off-budget war account to satisfy “defense hawks.” Although technically this only affects spending for FY 2016, I fear it implicitly repudiates programmed reductions in 2017, without which the budget may not balance within ten years as called for in the version that passed the House Budget Committee. I addressed this issue in greater detail in my speech to the House of March 24...

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Progressive Caucus Budget

March 25, 2015

Speeches

Even though I disagree heartily with the budgets advanced by the Progressive Caucus, they do an invaluable service to the budget debate by bringing into sharp relief the two very different visions of governance advanced by the two parties. The Progressive budget is a sincere and bold document. Unfortunately it is also wrong. It would hike taxes by $7 trillion over the next ten years...

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Keystone Pipeline Veto

February 25, 2015

Press Release

Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor regarding the President's veto of the Keystone Pipeline:

Mr. Speaker:

For more than six years, the President has called for taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects. In the first year of his administration, he squandered nearly a trillion dollars on so-called shovel ready projects that he later joked weren't shovel ready at all.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

HR 636 - America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act: YES

February 13, 2015

Vote Notes on Legislation

2/13/15 HR 636 - America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act: YES. Makes permanent a variety of small business tax deductions involving equipment and property purchases. In recent years, these provisions have to be renewed in “Tax Extender” bills, creating enormous uncertainty...

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

A Squandered Opportunity

January 20, 2015

Speeches

Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor regarding the State of the Union Address:

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Freezing Unauthorized Spending

July 10, 2014

Speeches

Ever since 1835, the Rules of the House have forbidden spending money for purposes unauthorized by current law. Yet last year, the eleven appropriations bills reported out of the House Appropriations Committee contained over $350 billion for spending on unauthorized programs.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

California Energy

April 10, 2014

Speeches

Oversight Hearing: Energy Independence - Domestic Opportunities to Reverse California's Growing Dependence on Foreign Oil

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicGovernment RegulationCalifornia

2015 Budget

April 8, 2014

Press Release

In August of 2010, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs warned that the greatest threat to our national security was our national debt. That was $4 trillion of debt ago. In fact, since Inauguration day, 2009, we have accumulated more total government debt than we had run up from the first day of the Washington Administration through the third year of the George W. Bush administration.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Baseline Budgeting H.R. 1871

April 8, 2014

Press Release

Our Constitution assigns the principle responsibility over the public purse to the House of Representatives. Under that Constitutional doctrine, a dollar can't be spent by this government unless the House says it gets spent. Yet today, spending increasingly seems to be out of our hands - driven automatically by a variety of provisions and practices that thwart the very design of the Constitution.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

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