Fiscal and Economic
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April 10, 2014
Oversight Hearing: Energy Independence - Domestic Opportunities to Reverse California's Growing Dependence on Foreign Oil
April 8, 2014
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
April 8, 2014
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
March 5, 2014
As we begin the annual budget process, we need to stop thinking in terms of Democratic and Republican policies and start thinking in terms of what policies have worked and what policies have not. The successes and failures of both parties could teach us much.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
February 11, 2014
Congressman McClintock voted No on H.R. 2642 today and issued the following statement: This measure suspends the federal debt limit until March of 2015. I have two principal objections to the measure. First and foremost, it does nothing to bend the debt curve down - a debt curve that the Congressional Budget Office again warns will begin dangerously expanding within two years, reaching unsustainable levels that threaten the future stability and prosperity of the nation.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
January 15, 2014
The House is scheduled to take up the omnibus appropriations bill for 2014, and I rise this morning to outline my objections to the measure.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
December 12, 2013
The great irony of the Republican decision to bust the budget sequester is that barely two months ago, congressional roles were reversed.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
December 12, 2013
The great irony of the Republican decision to bust the budget sequester is that barely two months ago, congressional roles were reversed.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
October 29, 2013
It has become obvious over the past few weeks that we are now watching nothing less than the collapse of the American health care system. Millions of Americans are losing their health plans and are being set adrift into a dysfunctional system where they cannot find comparable affordable policies.
October 23, 2013
This nation has gone through 18 government shutdowns in the last 37 years. Fifteen of those 18 shutdowns occurred when Democrats controlled the House.