Congressman, I can't even get to this fire on the ground. We used to have good timber roads. I could get equipment there. All I can do now is drop stuff from the air and pray to God the wind shifts.
Tom McClintock: “Congressman, I can't even get to this fire on the ground. We used to have good timber roads. I could get equipment…”
Editor's note · Context
McClintock shares a firefighter's frustration about inadequate access to fight wildfires.
Share
More from Tom McClintock
The question is, how many children have been placed with known MS-13 gang members? We know of one. What do you know?
You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.
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?
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.





