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The House Natural Resources Committee today passed Congressman Tom McClintock’s legislation, H.R. 2915, the American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Customer Protection Act of 2011. The legislation repeals the 2009 Stimulus Act’s new $3.25 billion Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) loan authority, including the taxpayer bailout provision for failed renewable energy transmission projects.
House Floor Remarks in Opposition to Klamth Dam Removal. Mr. Speaker:
This generation is facing spiraling electricity prices and increasingly scarce supplies. Californians have had to cut back to the point that their per capita electricity consumption is now lower than that of Guam, Luxembourg and Aruba.
What is the administration’s solution?
Congressman Tom McClintock, Opening Statement:
Gifford Pinchot, the founder of the U.S. Forest Service, gave a series of lectures at the Yale School of Forestry from 1910 to 1915, in which he propounded maxims for the (quote) “Behavior of Foresters in Public Office.” Among them:
• A public official is there to serve the public and not run them.
• Public support of acts affecting public rights is absolutely required.
• It is more trouble to consult the public than to ignore them, but that is what you are hired for.
Congressman McClintock questioning witnesses at a National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee oversight hearing about the importance of forest access by the public, June 22, 2011.
Congressman McClintock spoke earlier this year about forest access in a speech titled The Royal Forests.
House Water and Power Subcommittee, Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1837, “The San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act". Statement by Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock.
June 2, 2011
The tragedy of the man-made drought in California’s San Joaquin Valley has occupied a considerable amount of the sub-committee’s attention, and today we meet to consider HR 1837 by Congressman Nunes.
Opening Statement by Congressman Tom McClintock, Chairman, House Water and Power Subcommittee. Joint Water and Power and Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee Oversight Hearing on “Protecting Long-Term Tribal Energy Jobs and Keeping Arizona Water and Power Costs Affordable: The Current and Future Role of the Navajo Generating Station”
May 24, 2011
The purpose of today’s hearing is to comprehend an effort by the EPA to impose cost-prohibitive mandates on one of the largest sources of electricity in the west – the Navajo Generating Station.
The committee meets today to review three bills that make minor adjustments to current water projects, but that open larger issues I hope to address in coming months.
We have again before us the Hoover Power Allocation Act, H.R. 470 authored by Dr. Heck of Nevada and Mrs. Napolitano of California.