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Remarks by Representative Tom McClintock on the government takeover of healthcare. The legislation, HR 3590, was approved by Congress on March 21, 2010. Representative McClintock voted no on the bill.

"Under the provisions of this bill, Americans will be required by federal law to purchase health insurance policies that include every mandate imposed by the new federal health czar and will face federal fines and even imprisonment if they refuse. And they will pay for them through a combination of higher taxes, higher premiums or lower wages.

The attack of September 11th, 2001 was our generation’s Pearl Harbor. The Al Qaeda terrorists received succor, protection and encouragement from the Taliban government and accordingly acted as an agency of that government just as surely as the Japanese naval air forces that attacked Pearl Harbor acted as an agency of the government of Japan.

Washington, DC – Representative Tom McClintock (CA - 04) today made the following remarks at a press conference held to introduce a Spending Limitation Constitutional Amendment. Representative McClintock is co-author of the legislation.

During the 1980's, California enjoyed a Constitutional spending limit that produced a decade of balanced budgets, prudent reserves, no tax increases and steady economic growth. You can measure California's fiscal collapse from that day in 1990 when Californians foolishly threw that limit away.

I was extremely disappointed that on the same day we learned that the Northern Sierra snowpack is at 125% percent of normal, peeling away rhetoric that could only be best described as self-serving and deceptive, the administration has only actually committed to releasing 5% percent of water deliveries owed to the Central Valley, with the remaining 25% contingent on remaining precipitation.

At a time when Californians are paying the highest electricity prices in the Continental United States and when officials can’t guarantee enough electricity to keep the lights on, the decision to deliberately destroy 155 megawatts of the cleanest and cheapest electricity available is simply insane.

All high school students are invited to participate in the Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, a nation-wide high school art competition sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The contest is open to all high school students within the Fourth Congressional District.

Opening Statement
Congressman Tom McClintock
House Water and Power Sub-Committee
February 4, 2010.

Last week, Republicans held a listening forum in Fresno to hear directly from the people of California’s Central Valley who have been devastated by the federal government’s willful decision to turn off their water to indulge the environmental left’s pet causes.

“It is disappointing that after a year of failed bank bailouts and reckless spending has failed to produce real jobs, the President seems to be doubling down. I suppose it is human nature that the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them. But it doesn’t make for wise public policy.

“America’s future prosperity depends on restoring freedom of enterprise, not interposing government into every aspect of our lives. That’s what the stunning reversal in the polls and at the polls is telling the President, but he doesn’t seem to be listening.”