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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.
All high school students are invited to participate in the Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, a nation-wide high school art competition sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The contest is open to all high school students within the Fourth Congressional District.
Opening Statement
Congressman Tom McClintock
House Water and Power Sub-Committee
February 4, 2010.
Last week, Republicans held a listening forum in Fresno to hear directly from the people of California’s Central Valley who have been devastated by the federal government’s willful decision to turn off their water to indulge the environmental left’s pet causes.
“It is disappointing that after a year of failed bank bailouts and reckless spending has failed to produce real jobs, the President seems to be doubling down. I suppose it is human nature that the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them. But it doesn’t make for wise public policy.
“America’s future prosperity depends on restoring freedom of enterprise, not interposing government into every aspect of our lives. That’s what the stunning reversal in the polls and at the polls is telling the President, but he doesn’t seem to be listening.”
The Agony of the Central Valley
House Chamber, Washington D.C.
January 26, 2010
Madam Speaker:
For many months, the Republicans on the Water and Power Sub-Committee of the House Natural Resources Committee have implored the majority Democrats to hold a hearing in the Central Valley of California to see and hear for themselves the damage that the federal government has caused by diverting 200 billion gallons of water away from Central Valley farms in order to indulge the environmental Left’s pet cause, the Delta Smelt.
The Legitimacy of our Government Depends on the Legitimacy of the Vote
Event: Town Hall Meeting with Constituents When: Saturday January 23, 2010 Time: 10:00am Location: Oak Ridge High School-in the “Big Gym” 1120 Harvard Way, El Dorado Hills
Deficits Made in California Should Stay in California
Schwarzenegger’s Folly, House Chamber, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2010. Mr. Speaker:
California’s governor is seeking billions of dollars of additional federal aid to fill his ever-widening budget deficits.
Last April, he imposed the biggest tax increase by any state in American history, despite repeated warnings of the damage it would do to the state’s economy. California already had the highest sales and income taxes in the nation – he increased both.