Tom McClintock

the Forest Service's budget has more than doubled, doubled, in 10 years, and yet that still is not enough

Can you assure me that henceforth, upon discovery of a fire, you will order an aggressive initial attack?

Until they quit suing, until we quit giving them the ability to hold up the management, there is no amount of money and no number of staff that are going to be able to fix the problem with our forests.

This is insane. Please tell me that you are dropping that policy and that you will be vigorously attacking fires on their initial discovery rather than waiting for them to become these massive conflagrations.

Will the Forest Service support legislation to extend this provision across all Forest Service lands?

The Forest Service used to have what was called the 10 a.m. rule.

But you knew about it. You deliberately sat on it.

the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law reflects yet another example of Congress just throwing money at a problem, trying to put a Band-Aid on the symptoms instead of actually getting to the root problem

Every day, the Forest Service had helicopters flying over to take pictures for Facebook but never bothered to drop a bucket of water or put the damn thing out.

My Democratic colleagues are targeting almost entirely and solely police officers and that is entirely political.

Instead of just gutting it and targeting cops.

In an appropriate case, we should reconsider our qualified immunity jurisprudence.

They don't tell you that the $350 billion has language in there saying that it's about community investing.

I am embarrassed to say that on this Committee when I say that I have Members on the other side say don't talk about how much we owe...

This budget also includes potentially up to $4 trillion in tax increases.

To spend $73 trillion--God forbid Democrats ever find out what comes after a trillion--so that you spend $73 trillion over the next 10 years...

the crises created by President Biden and the House and Senate Democrats' agenda were already piling up.

Results, nearly 8 percent annual inflation, costing an average family $3,500 in lost purchasing power.

It is your policies that have caused these conditions. That is reality.

I submit that no American would vote for that willingly and say, yes, raise my share of the national debt by $50,000...

This proposal spends $73 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

The only thing the Democrats do more or raise more quickly than spending is taxes--again, on all Americans.

Biden's budget gives a 12 percent raise to the IRS to target hard-working Americans.

It is the spending stupid. We have before us a budget that dramatically raises taxes and claims that we are going to reduce the deficit.

It is child abuse to put a child in a mask all day long when we know masks don't make any difference.