Tom McClintock: “In pre-Columbian times, we would lose between 8 and 12 million acres a year to catastrophic fire in California.”

In this country, we don't have Americans--or old Americans or new Americans; we just have my fellow Americans.

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.

What I'm hearing back is you don't do anything. You shrug your shoulders and then send another batch of kids out to another group of sponsors' homes.

These are people who promised their constituents not to raise their taxes. And those five no votes just voted for the biggest tax increase in American history.