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House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
November 3, 2009
M. Speaker:
What do Americans lose if Nancy Pelosi succeeds in taking over health care?
We’ll lose the freedom to shop around for the policy that best meets our own needs.
Latest stimulus data:
Total stimulus spending in 4th CD: $163,877,376.
Total jobs created: 112.09.
Total spent per job: $1,462,016.02.
Source: U.S. Government, Recovery.gov
https://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/Pages/home.aspx
M. Speaker:
I rise today in defense of dissent.
It is a sad milestone when it becomes necessary to do so. But the ferocity with which this administration is pursuing its critics in business and journalism is becoming alarming.
House Chamber, Washington D.C. October 27, 2009. M. Speaker: The last time our unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent was in 1983.
Ronald Reagan responded by cutting taxes and reducing regulatory burdens on the economy, producing the biggest peacetime economic expansion in the nation’s history.
Today, President Obama is doing exactly the opposite. Obamacare and Cap and Trade and many other bills promise the biggest tax increases and heaviest regulations our country has ever seen.
Opening Statement, The Honorable Tom McClintock, Ranking Republican, House Water and Power Subcommittee. Oversight Hearing on “Water Management and Climate Variability: Information Support at the USGS and Bureau of Reclamation."
October 27, 2009
Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.
U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (CA-04 Granite Bay) the ranking member of the House Water and Power Subcommittee today called for a Congressional field hearing on California’s water crisis.
The full text of the letter to House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall and House Water and Power Subcommittee Chairwoman Grace Napolitano requesting the hearing is attached.
Text of letter requesting hearing:
October 26, 2009
Chairman Nick Rahall
House Natural Resources Committee
Chairwoman Grace Napolitano
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. October 22, 2009. M. Speaker: I rise in opposition to the rule and in opposition to the underlying bill. And to explain why, I'd like to walk through a little history and a little math.
Let's begin with history and two important years: 1978 and 1839.
In 1978, the Wall Street Journal carried this headline: "Solar Power Seen Meeting 20 percent of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost."
Washington, D.C. ---Representative Tom McClintock’s (CA-04) legislation honoring Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery by naming a Post Office in his honor passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday.
H.R.3319 will designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, California, as the “Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery Post Office Building.”
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. October 20, 2009. Mr. Speaker: This bill names the Post Office in Portola, California in honor of Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery, who grew up in that town, and who returned to it as a fallen hero at the age of 24.
M. Speaker: