Tom McClintock

Granted, we are talking about Federal lands that are suffering from gross benign neglect, really. We have stopped managing them.

What is better, scarcity or abundance?

Would it surprise you to learn that that observation was made by Thomas Jefferson?

It is choking off our forests.

In pre-Columbian times, we would lose between 8 and 12 million acres a year to catastrophic fire in California.

I am terribly disappointed that you cannot summon the outrage to put it in stronger words than just this is unacceptable and doesn't represent the FBI.

I think that you have lost the trust of an awful lot of Americans and that is a dangerous, dangerous thing for an agency.

I don't see how you can restore public trust without a thorough and complete and public housecleaning.

That is the great irony. This law was passed to address abuses and protect American civil liberties and was abused for political purpose, for those violations of those liberties.

Plainly, the improper spying of an American citizen can never happen again.

Make no mistake. While I believe that we must reauthorize several provisions, such as collection of business records, roving wiretaps, lone wolf authority, the reauthorization of these specific provisions in no way addresses the abuses.

I don't trust your agency anymore.

The evidence shows that President Donald Trump holds a deep seated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption.

FBI officials did not abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.

We need an independent President who does not have to suffer to anything a congressional majority might throw at him.

Your ruling and the majority's ruling of minority rights are dead in this Congress and especially this committee.

The President is responsible for faithfully executing the laws.

President Trump's actions are not unprecedented. Many Presidents have defied congressional subpoenas, including President Obama on many occasions.

What is his big infraction here? He asserted a legitimate executive privilege and legal immunity to question subpoenas issued by various White House officials.

I am disappointed in my colleagues, but probably even those who don't support the President would share that disappointment in this very moment.

The doctrine of executive privilege actually began with a subpoena that the House issued to President George Washington in 1796.

We defend them that there is nothing wrong, and I will do them right now.

The Constitution is at stake. The Framers of our Constitution's enlightened decisions are at stake.

Charging the President with obstruction of Congress is, frankly, unprecedented, and in itself, it threatens our system of government.

They can't prove extortion. They can't even prove a campaign finance violation.