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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing today on “Examining the Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration and the Southeastern Power Administration."
Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock made the following opening statement at the hearing:
Today the subcommittee hears from the four federal power marketing administrations that administer our hydroelectricity.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing today to examine the FY 2012 budget request for the Bureau of Reclamation. Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock made the following opening statement at the hearing:
Opening Statement
Congressman Tom McClintock
Chairman
House Water and Power Subcommittee
Oversight Hearing on “Examining the Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Resources Program”
Volunteers interested in learning how to collect and preserve the personal accounts of American wartime veterans for the Library of Congress are invited to a program overview and training session. The program is a collaboration of the Library of Congress and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1487 in cooperation with Congressman Tom McClintock’s office. Materials will be provided.
Congressman McClintock will hold a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills this Wednesday, February 23rd at 6:00 PM. The location will be Rolling Hills Middle School multi-purpose room.
El Dorado Hills Town Hall Meeting
Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 6:00PM
Rolling Hills Middle School
Multi-Purpose Room
7141 Silva Valley Parkway
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
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The United States government is on the verge of bankruptcy. HR 1 makes $61 billion in actual spending reductions for the remaining fiscal year ending on September 30. Since 2008, federal spending has increased 24 percent; the cuts in HR 1 represent a 1 ½ percent reduction. HR 1 isn’t enough to make more than a dent in the deficit, but at least it reverses the upward trend in spending and points us back in the direction of solvency.
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. February 15, 2011
M. Speaker:
Last year I voted to extend the PATRIOT Act for one year. I regret that vote and was glad to have been able to correct it, although I am pained that the House voted otherwise yesterday.
During this past year, I have become convinced that the provisions of the so-called PATRIOT Act are an affront to the Bill of Rights and a serious threat to our fundamental liberty as Americans.
Congressman Tom McClintock, Chairman of the House Water and Power Subcommittee, today made the following remarks on the House floor during consideration of a resolution directing committees to identify federal regulations that impede job creation and slow the economy
House Resolution 72
House Chamber, Washington, D.C
Legislation will ensure debt service payments in the event the debt ceiling is reached
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. January 19, 2011. M. Speaker:
The Department of Interior issued an announcement yesterday that perfectly illustrates the irrationality of our current approach to water issues.
California’s precipitation this season has gone off the charts. Statewide snow water content is 198 percent of normal; in the all-important Northern Sierra snowpack is 174 percent of normal. This is not only a wet year – it is one of the wettest years on record.
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. January 18, 2011.
M. Speaker:
The central promises of Obamacare were that it would bend health costs down and wouldn’t threaten existing plans.
We now know that both these claims were false.
The CBO warns that this law will increase average private premiums by $2,100 within five years above what they otherwise would have been without Obamacare. The administration’s own actuary admits that the law bends the cost curve up – not down – by $311 billion over the next ten years.