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

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?

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

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.

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