Tom McClintock: “The concern I am trying to explore is that just the bureaucratic delay alone in preparing the sale consumes a great…”

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?

The Federal forests are absolutely decrepit. Again, one quarter of them destroyed. Yet, we lose money.

Not because of a lack of resources, but because the laws that have been adopted in the 1970s make it cost prohibitive.

it's important that your Department be above reproach and clearly, it's not.