Tom McClintock

They were staffed better, and like I said, we typically only have one deputy on patrol at a time.

Both sides have a lunatic fringe in their movement, ours and yours. Frankly, I find yours far more frightening because--

Wouldn't we quickly return to a situation where we had a wide variety of plans and prices that consumers could choose?

Before we socialized our medical system we had a free market system which every American could choose from a wide variety of competing options.

The cost of care for illegals is about $22 billion a year. Who ends up paying that $22 billion price tag?

That is what socialism always produces, higher costs and worse services.

The right question is, 'Is it good for the park's visitors?' And I will tell you, my assessment is that this is an attitude problem that runs deep, deep in the Park Service.

I have to tell you, candidly, that the gateway communities feel the current park management is entirely insulated and disinterested in their input and feedback.

Well, what you are doing at Yosemite is not working, and yet you don't seem to be taking that into account in plowing ahead.

Federal land managers have kept our forests in decrepit condition under these laws and they lose money.

The environmental laws of the 1970s now require an average of 4½ years of studies before we can undertake a forest thinning project.

These policies are madness, and they are now having a terrible effect on the prices that Americans have to pay for everything from gasoline and electricity to automobiles and light bulbs.

That's why Border Patrol have been warning us for years to warn our communities outside of the international boundary that every community is becoming a border town?

Local law enforcement in my community in California told me of one of the nearby rural towns that became a place where MS-13 brought its victims from Los Angeles to murder, and there are absolutely gruesome stories of faces being carved…

We don't need new laws. We need to enforce the laws we already have.

The laws didn't change on inauguration day. The Presidency did.

We just need an Administration who actually enforces the current law.

If we are going to encourage and reward illegal immigration, which is the clear and consistent policy of the Democrats today, then there is no point in legal immigration.

Opposition to illegal immigration is not opposition to legal immigration.

The Democrats tell us that illegal immigrants are more law abiding than Americans.

The economic impact on working Americans is catastrophic because it suppresses wages for unskilled and low-skilled American workers.

To equate their lawless behavior with law abiding, hardworking, and patriotic legal immigrants is outrageous, and my colleagues who do so should be ashamed of themselves.

That is a supreme insult to the millions of legal immigrants who enter our country every year by obeying our laws.

It is time we acknowledge the damage that they did and take steps to assure that they can never do it again.

The fact is, we never allowed it to close millions of businesses, lock people in their homes indefinitely, censor dissenters, forbid peaceable assemblies, shut down churches, and yet in the jurisdictions that the left controlled this is…