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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.

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. 

Washington, D.C. – Congressman McClintock delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to the Langevin Amendment to the NDAA.

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.

H.R. 7666: NO.  This measure throws nearly $2 billion a year into mental health grant programs that are notoriously unsupervised and inefficient and often rob one state to benefit another.  Mental health programs have traditionally been funded and administered by the states where innovative approaches can be tried and evaluated.  Although proponents promise this will improve public safety, it does nothing to confine the dangerously mentally ill who should not be on the streets at all.

H.R. 6538: NO.  This sends $2 million to the DOJ to implement an “Active Shooter Alert” notification that duplicates the existing Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS).  Warning the public of imminent threats is a useful activity, which is why we have the IPAWS.  Setting up a duplicative system only for gunfire unnecessarily complicates and confuses the existing system and risks desensitizing the public with false alarms under the loose definitions in this bill.