Tom McClintock

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

when you take the dollar they would spend for their needs and instead spend it yourself, for whatever lofty purpose, you have not only reduced their standard of living, but you have also harmed the economy.

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.

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

So, if Congress isn't using that authority, it's not the Federal agency's fault; it's a matter of congressional neglect.

To hear what we're hearing in the rhetoric today, these Federal agencies are running roughshod over Congress and there's nothing Congress can do about it.

We do have bipartisan agreement that the Senate doesn't work fast enough as it is now.

the reality is Congress has failed to do its job.

It's my understanding that the REINS Act could undo multiple major rules, including many that keep our kids safe.

Ultimately, Congress needs to reestablish itself, not government agencies, as the main driver of Federal policy.

without Congress' neglect, without Congress' failure to act, we wouldn't be dealing with the REINS Act right now.

As set forth by our Constitution, binding rules should come from politically accountable elected representatives, not from the Administrative State.

In the words of James Madison, the accumulation of all powers. Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

The Klamath Water Users Association estimates the lack of irrigated water led to the loss of $100 million in economic activity.

But because we don't have the capacity to store excess water from wet years, we approach catastrophic shortages during the dry ones.

Should the Federal Government not take care of the land it already holds before acquiring still more lands?

So, put simply, surface water storage gives us nearly four times as much water for the dollar as desalination.

We built aqueducts to move water from wet regions to dry regions.

We could spend about $1.4 billion to raise Shasta Dam by 18 feet or spend $1 billion for another Carlsbad desalination plant.

The lack of irrigated water led to the loss of $100 million in economic activity.

The cheapest source of water... was good old-fashioned surface storage, dams and reservoirs.

California voters approved a purported water bond in 2014 with the promise it would be used for water storage.

So, excessive Federal landownership is not protecting our forests. It is destroying them.

It is just human nature that the most jealous guardians of a community are the members of the community, not some far off government in Washington.

We expect this to be, and continue to be, on this President and those that follow a bipartisan issue.