Tom McClintock

That sounds like a catastrophic management failure.

What are you doing to assure the American taxpayer that every dollar is devoted to a Navy that is ready and willing to fight?

There is a bang for the buck problem there that is pretty frightening.

What are you doing to restore the discipline of seamanship so our ships don't collide?

I have heard reports that we have a large percentage of aircraft and ships that are simply not combat ready, particularly aircraft.

I was afraid you were going to say climate change. That is what the President told us he was being advised.

What are you doing to restore mission and fighting purpose so that whether confronted by Iranian gun boats or the Coronavirus, the first impulse of our commanders is not to surrender?

But that has nothing to do with the science, that has clearly shown that COVID very, very rarely spreads outdoors.

I will assure you the communities are in desperate need of lifting these restrictions, which have no foundation at all in science.

These restrictions continue to have a devastating impact on the gateway communities that depend upon tourist travel to Yosemite for their very economic existence.

I have just raised two critical questions for the people of the Western United States, and I have gotten answers to neither of those questions.

If, in fact, your budget request includes no funding for new water storage capacity, despite the severe drought conditions that we are suffering in the West, I wonder, how can the Administration expect to address our Western water crisis…

This long-overdue proposal would store enough water to support more than 3 million Californians annually.

While I believe that the safety valve was too stringent prior to the passage of the First Step Act, I'm a bit uncomfortable with expanding the safety valve to recidivists.

The current 18-1 disparity certainly does strike me as excessive.

I endorse any effort to ensure that the First Step Act is fully implemented.

I question whether this expansion makes sense at a time when we have experienced a dramatic spike in violent crime.

I have similar concerns with respect to juvenile offenders who commit unspeakably violent crimes.

I find that shocking, and I strongly disassociate myself and support that are expressed for that on behalf of the Minority.

The question we need to ask is whether admitting Puerto Rico as a state makes our country stronger or weaker.

The government of Puerto Rico is a fiscal basket case, which we have been dealing with on this Committee for many years.

I am very disappointed with the Republican position on this issue.

The question that Congress must decide is whether that is in the interest of the United States as a whole to admit Puerto Rico as a state.

I don't think any question that that's the case. These policies have produced the largest human-trafficking operation since the international slave trade.

This is a massive-organized crime syndicate burgeoning in this country because of these policies.