If that categorical exclusion authority had been available to the El Dorado National Forest as it has been for 7 years to the Tahoe Basin, would the town of Grizzly Flats have survived?
Thomas McClintock
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Thomas Miller McClintock is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he has been an advocate for limited government and fiscal conservatism throughout his political career. McClintock has focused on issues such as tax reform, environmental policy, and government spending. He previously served in the California State Assembly and as a member of the California State Senate, where he gained recognition for his commitment to conservative principles.
Our private foresters maintain healthy and resilient forests and they make an awful lot of money doing that.
An untended forest is no different than an untended garden. It is going to grow and grow until it chokes itself to death.
Excess timber will come out of the forest, and it comes out in only two ways: Either we will carry it out or nature will burn it out.
These restrictive laws and the endless litigation that they spawn could been put aside in favor of doing the forest management that would have saved the town of Grizzly Flats.
I observed the same thing when I toured the footprint of the King Fire 5 years after that fire had decimated the forest.
all that smoke you are burning are our folks' dreams, businesses, everything they had worked so hard to build.
Parents have a fundamental natural right to raise their children according to their own best judgment.
If both parties support a law that forbids performing these transgender procedures on a minor without the full and informed consent of the parents, then Mr. Chair, I believe we should advance such a bill right away.
They're following the mass migration into this country. That's what the FBI Director told us.





