Tom McClintock

They do need to take responsibility for their own actions and their own finances.

One thing is certain in a democracy: You are always guaranteed to get the government you vote for.

The central premise of PROMESA implies that the people of Puerto Rico are not competent to govern themselves, and I reject that premise categorically.

That is another way of saying let's invite corruption into the process.

If you spend more than you take in, you are going to run out of money. If you walk away from your debt, people stop loaning you money. And socialism sucks.

I was concerned that this breach of faith would cost Puerto Rico access to credit markets at reasonable rates for many years to come.

Puerto Rico's promise of full faith and credit now means absolutely nothing.

Well, we all have to do better. And as I watch these massive grants going out with very little direction and virtually no oversight, it concerns me greatly.

I would strongly urge you to use the previous administration as a model of what not to do.

And it may be something that is simply endemic to grants, and maybe we ought to be just doing a lot less of that.

There is no downside in securing our border.

I have seen people who couldn't pay their smugglers and got stabbed in the face 22 times.

There seems to be no review of these grants, how these grants are used by the NGOs.

We all have to do better. And as I watch these massive grants going out with very little direction and virtually no oversight, it concerns me greatly.

And you would think that if the gun control laws were a solution to the problem, the problem would at least be getting better by now, not getting worse. But it is clearly getting much worse.

It may be something that is simply endemic to grants, and maybe we ought to be just doing a lot less of that.

We have been at this now for 50 years, debating these issues, and over the years, we do have experience with a lot of policies that have worked and a lot of policies that haven't worked.

Most importantly, we used to confine the dangerously mentally ill when we identified them in mental hospitals where we could treat them and prevent them from harming others.

50 years ago, we had very few gun control laws. Today, we have a great many. If these laws were actually the answer to these massacres, shouldn't the problem be getting better and not worse by now?

Now, when you go to a bank you see an armed guard and that guard is there to protect our money. Why would anyone object to an armed guard in a school who is there to protect our children?

But whenever anybody suggests that maybe we ought to have lethal force to protect our children, people go crazy over that.

This absence of Congressional action since 1952 has allowed the courts to set policy on what can and cannot get a patent.

We need to bring back injunctions and restore the property rights that are enshrined in the Constitution again.

The second thing the Stronger Patent Act does is it restores injunctive relief.

That is why, along with Congressman Bill Foster, Tom McClintock, Nydia Velazquez, we have introduced the bipartisan Stronger Patents Act.