Thomas McClintock actually said...

"it seems to me we are in danger of becoming a lawless government, where whatever we say in the law, the President does what he wants."

"In fact, the biggest expansion of entitlement spending up until that point since the Great Society, as I recall."

"The issue I have raised is very simple. Why can the president's budget not be more like President Clinton's and a lot less like President Bush's?"

"Is it correct that President Clinton dramatically decreased entitlement spending by signing the Welfare Reform Act?"