Tom McClintock: “The same freedom of speech that protects my right to advocate that position is at stake here, is it not.”

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?

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

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.

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.