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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 28, 2022
Many years ago, the last silicon chip manufacturer closed its operations in Silicon Valley because of the high tax, energy and regulatory costs of doing business in the United States. Now we’ve suddenly decided we want them back. Instead of addressing the problem by reducing the obstacles to domestic manufacturing, Congress will shell out $280 billion (about $2,240 per family) to bail out impoverished big tech moguls by substituting your dollars for theirs. There’s a prevailing wage requirement to reward the unions, and just so the green left isn’t left out, there’s plenty of your money left over to finance green energy scams as well. Starving big tech executives thank you for your family’s generous contribution to their welfare. Good luck affording your next laptop.
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 26, 2022
Under the pretense of combating human smuggling, this bill hands out $1.1 billion to bloated foreign aid programs, resume workshops for noncitizens and other unaccountable grants to community groups and local governments. It utterly ignores the human trafficking crisis unfolding on the southern border as crime cartels smuggle record numbers of unaccompanied minors into the country, which the Biden administration then traffics to a community near you with the help of your tax dollars.
July 21, 2022
HR 8373 and HR 8404 – Hair on Fire Over Dobbs Decision: No. HR 8373 purports to guarantee the right to contraception and HR 8404 to guarantee the right to gay and interracial marriage. There is not a single state in the country that bans contraception or interracial marriage and no one in their right mind would support such bans. This is a reaction to the Dobbs decision that overturned the Roe decision but also explicitly stated that it did not extend beyond abortion. HR 8373 creates a broad definition of contraception that could include sterilization and chemical abortions and forces health clinics to provide them against their religious convictions. With respect to HR 8404, I believe marriage is an institution that exists in nature and is specific to the creation and protection of new life.
July 19, 2022
H.Res. 1130 – Beware of Foreign Entanglements: No. This measure supports the admission of Sweden and Finland into NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty requires the United States to come to the military defense of any member nation that is attacked. Every country admitted to NATO expands the risk of the United States being entangled in a European war, requiring the blood and treasure of the entire nation to support. In return, what does America get? The strength of the mighty Finnish and Swedish armies? If American interests are threatened, we always have the option of becoming involved. This measure would change the option into an obligation. I believe the admission of former Warsaw Pact nations into NATO has had a demonstrable destabilizing influence in Europe. Adding formerly neutral countries, as this measure proposes, would add still more trip-wires that could embroil America in a European war at a time when America’s greatest international threats are outside of Europe.