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House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
March 17, 2010
M. Speaker:
I rise to express my great concern over recent statements by Administration officials regarding Israeli housing construction in that nation’s capital city.
History warns us that appeasement of mutual enemies is the surest possible way to destroy alliances and to invite aggression, and yet the rhetoric of this administration is taking us down this very dangerous road.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing today on the FY 2011 Administration Budget Request for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The attached remarks are by Representative Tom McClintock:
I’d like to express my concern from the outset that the Bureau of Reclamation is quickly becoming the Bureau of Water Shortage and Dam Destruction. The budget before us today is symbolic of that transformation.
The attack of September 11th, 2001 was our generation’s Pearl Harbor. The Al Qaeda terrorists received succor, protection and encouragement from the Taliban government and accordingly acted as an agency of that government just as surely as the Japanese naval air forces that attacked Pearl Harbor acted as an agency of the government of Japan.
Washington, DC – Representative Tom McClintock (CA - 04) today made the following remarks at a press conference held to introduce a Spending Limitation Constitutional Amendment. Representative McClintock is co-author of the legislation.
During the 1980's, California enjoyed a Constitutional spending limit that produced a decade of balanced budgets, prudent reserves, no tax increases and steady economic growth. You can measure California's fiscal collapse from that day in 1990 when Californians foolishly threw that limit away.
I was extremely disappointed that on the same day we learned that the Northern Sierra snowpack is at 125% percent of normal, peeling away rhetoric that could only be best described as self-serving and deceptive, the administration has only actually committed to releasing 5% percent of water deliveries owed to the Central Valley, with the remaining 25% contingent on remaining precipitation.
Remarks by Representative Tom McClintock, Washington, D.C., February 24, 2010.
A generation ago, the principal objective of our water and power policy was to create an abundance of both. It was an era when vast reservoirs and hydro-electric facilities produced a cornucopia of clean and plentiful water and electricity on a scale so vast that many communities didn’t even bother to meter.
House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
February 23, 2010
Mr. Speaker:
It pains me to rise in opposition to the valedictory measure of the gentleman from Hawaii, but I believe this bill strikes at the very foundation of a nation dedicated to equality under law. It establishes a different set of laws, a different set of rights and a different government for one group of Americans based solely on their race.
House Chamber, Washington D.C.
February 23, 2010
M. Speaker:
Two weeks ago, Congress and the President added $1.9 trillion to the national debt limit. That translates to more than $6,000 of additional debt for every man, woman and child in the country – more than $24,000 for an average family of four.
Your family is required to repay that debt through future taxes just as surely as if it appeared on your credit card statement.
At a time when Californians are paying the highest electricity prices in the Continental United States and when officials can’t guarantee enough electricity to keep the lights on, the decision to deliberately destroy 155 megawatts of the cleanest and cheapest electricity available is simply insane.