Thomas McClintock actually said...

"The principal question I have is whether our laws are actually counterproductive to protecting endangered species."

"Our Committee, in the hearings that we have had, has often been shown aerial photographs of forests throughout the western United States."

"Doesn't it make sense to harvest the older trees and replace them with young growing trees to sequester more carbon?"

"Well, in fact, there was one estimate that just a single fire in California recently released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than had been saved by all the Draconian California laws over a pe..."