Tom McClintock

Our current circumstance is baked in, and it is going to stay this way or get worse for the next 30 to 40 years, despite our best efforts.

By adding that extra 200 feet of elevation, it would mean an additional 9 million acre-feet of water storage, nearly tripling the capacity of the dam.

And my response to that was, well, why doesn't somebody build a fish hatchery?

Now, again, what would you speculate would be the reason for this?

Does it surprise you that 10 years later that project has not been completed?

Preserving our Federal lands for future generations does not mean that we should close them to the current generation.

And what is it that can be done about that?

I commend the work of law enforcement officers and firefighters to keep our public lands safe.

I do think the studies have been done, and we need to move forward.

We have watched increasingly draconian restrictions placed on the people's ability to use, resort, and recreate on the people's lands.

the idea was presented to our Congressman, the Honorable Congressman McClintock.

To add insult to insanity, when they tear down the Iron Gate Dam, the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery goes with it.

What struck me about it is that it sends a tangible message to public safety officers across the country that the vast, vast majority of the American people stand behind them, and appreciate them, and honor their work.

That $2 million project that was a heavy lift for a little community--within reach--that became an $11 million boondoggle.

Bill Clinton reached across the aisle in 1994 and declared that 'the era of big government is over.'

my concern with this budget and the ideology that has produced it is that it takes us far from the fundamental principles that have produced the prosperity and freedom that Americans once enjoyed.

The House Freedom Caucus plan wouldn't reduce the deficit by one penny.

What makes you think that socialism is going to work any better here than everywhere else in the world it has ever been tried?

Instead of looking for new ways to spend money, we should all be looking at ways to save it.

Parents have that right and responsibility to determine how their children are raised and what ideas they are exposed to.

How terrifying to come to your local school board meeting, strongly express your opinions... only to get a call from the FBI.

A deficit is simply a future tax in the form either of debt or inflation.

If the Democrats are actually defending such a practice, then they have completely removed themselves from the fundamental principles of a free society.

In a free market, the only way to make a dollar is to figure out what somebody else needs and provide it for them better than they can provide it for themselves.

I think we are arguing past each other on a lot of the points that have been made today.