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Congressman Tom McClintock will conduct a town hall meeting in Placerville on Tuesday, May 17, at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at El Dorado High School, in the gym, 561 Canal Street, Placerville.
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.
This truly is a tale of two parties.
The Democrats have been very clear on their approach: heap additional taxes on producers – which will be instantly passed on to consumers -- and continue to delay and obstruct the development of America’s vast petroleum resources. Higher prices at the pump, increasing dependence on foreign oil and thousands more families thrown out of work.
Opening Statement by Congressman Tom McClintock, Chairman, House Water and Power Subcommittee. Oversight Hearing on “Protecting the Federal Hydropower Investment: A Stakeholder’s Perspective”
Lincoln town hall; Congressman Tom McClintock will hold a town-hall meeting Thursday, April 28, 6:00 p.m. McBean Pavilion, 65 McBean Park Drive, Lincoln.
Congressman Tom McClintock delivered the following remarks during a debate on the 2012 budget bill introduced by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan:
The 2012 Budget
House Chamber, Washington, DC
April 14, 2011
History walks with us today as we begin this debate.
History offers us not a single example of a nation that has ever spent, borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity. Not one.
Field hearing of the House Water and Power Subcommitte, opening statement by Congressman Tom McClintock, Chairman, House Subcommittee on Water and Power.
During the last session of Congress, Republicans unsuccessfully attempted for two years to get the Water and Power Subcommittee to come to Fresno to hear first-hand from the communities that have endured the devastating financial, social and environmental damage done by the government’s decision to deny this region 200 billion gallons of water to indulge the pet causes of the environmental Left.
Mr. Chairman: History walks with us today as we begin this work. History offers us not a single example of a nation that has ever spent, borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity, but it offers us many, many examples of nations that have spent, borrowed and taxed their way to economic ruin and bankruptcy.
Oversight Hearing on “Creating Abundant Water and Power Supplies and Job Growth by Restoring Common Sense to Federal Regulations”
Opening statement by subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock
Today’s hearing is conducted pursuant to House Resolution 72 which directs all committees of the House to identify current and pending regulations that threaten existing jobs or impede the creation of new ones.
M. Speaker:
When the President ordered the attack on Libya without Congressional authorization, he crossed a very bright Constitutional line that he himself recognized in 2007 when he told the Boston Globe “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”