Speeches
September 20, 2022
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
Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks at the 2022 Lake Tahoe Summit on August 16th.
Watch full remarks here and a transcript is below:
August 12, 2022
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.
July 29, 2022
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
July 27, 2022
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.
July 27, 2022
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.
July 14, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Congressman McClintock delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to the Langevin Amendment to the NDAA.
June 24, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Congressman McClintock delivered remarks on the House floor discussing the gun debate.
Watch the full remarks here and a transcript is below:
Issues:Self-Defense
June 23, 2022
We all know the tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Grifters convince an emperor that they’re expert tailors who weave a cloth so fine that only the virtuous can see it. The emperor wraps himself in nothing and parades the streets as all the townspeople compete to signal their own virtue by proclaiming how beautiful the material is – even though their own common sense tells them otherwise. This scheme is successful until a little boy who knows better states the obvious.
Issues:Energy
June 15, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Congressman McClintock today delivered the following remarks on the House floor on the January 6th Committee.
Watch the full statement here and see a transcript of the remarks below: