Tom McClintock: “It used to be that lumber companies would bid for timber on Federal lands. They would pay the Federal Treasury to…”

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 Chief of the Border Patrol told us at Eagle Pass that he says, I am standing in front of an open fire hydrant with a bucket. I do not need more buckets. I need somebody to shut off the fire hydrant.

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.

A quarter of our national forests gone, simply gone.