Tom McClintock

Congressman Tom McClintock to write a strong letter of protest against the Draft Plan

Does it make much sense to you for the federal government to be obstructing the vast amounts of conventional energy that we have right within our own borders, while, at the same time, lavishing public funds on unreliable and extremely…

It is not only not promoting an all-of-the-above strategy, it is actually obstructing an all-of-the-above strategy.

They are terrible; they will not let us fight back.

I direct her attention to the Pacific Legal Foundation study that utterly debunked the notion that this has been such a fabulous success.

As I listen to the acting Ranking Member, on behalf of the Democratic Minority, one would think that the ESA was this magnificent success to the environment that has had no cost to our economy. This is sheer fantasy.

Well, then, it seems to me we ought to just count the damn hatchery fish.

the court did not mandate any of these activities. They simply required a plan.

the Antiquities Act was actually originally established to give the Administration emergency power to protect newly discovered archeological sites from raiding.

Yosemite was set aside 150 years ago specifically for public use, resort, and recreation.

the Park employees are all against these changes. You know, we want to welcome the public to the public's lands.

It seems to me that one common denominator for all of these policies across all of the public land management agencies is to coax the public off the public's lands.

Now we are told, 'Well, commercial activities are not compatible with the public lands.'

I have to take strong exception with your testimony that a provision to support the public credit by assuring the first call on revenues goes to support the public credit is somehow unworkable.

I fear that we are drifting far from that concept of a Nation of laws and not of men, and reversing that to becoming a Nation of men and not of laws.

I think that is a misuse of that power. And that is why I believe that the people's voice should be heard.

it seems to me we are in danger of becoming a lawless government, where whatever we say in the law, the President does what he wants.

Put it very simply, when you are depending on your credit cards to pay your bills, you better make the minimum payment first, and I urge you to reconsider your position on that.

Is it correct that President Clinton dramatically decreased entitlement spending by signing the Welfare Reform Act?

The issue I have raised is very simple. Why can the president's budget not be more like President Clinton's and a lot less like President Bush's?

Do you not agree that it is a massive expansion of entitlement spending?

In fact, the biggest expansion of entitlement spending up until that point since the Great Society, as I recall.

Yosemite National Park is a national treasure that must be available for the American public to access and enjoy in the same manner that Americans have for decades.

The draft plan in question directly contravenes the authorization, and I am firmly against NPS taking any action that would limit public access and enjoyment of Yosemite.

Although hundreds of thousands of Japanese were killed by the deployment of these bombs, millions of Japanese and at least hundreds of thousands of American lives were saved by the deployment of these bombs.