Tom McClintock

We have made progress on the economy, 36 months of job growth, 6.5 million private sector jobs, 14 straight quarters of GDP growth.

George W. Bush was one of the most fiscally irresponsible presidents in our history.

I will continue to want to work with you as much as possible.

The austerity programs that work are those that reduce spending, which is what the House Republican budget does.

I don't want to set up unrealistic timelines that are not going to be possible to be met.

A year goes by, we hear the same testimony, and nothing happens.

Congress has acted. Congress has adopted a budget on schedule, but that process was supposed to begin with the president presenting one, and he did not.

Before we redesign the Eisenhower Memorial, which I believe is absolutely essential, we first need to redesign the process that produced this monstrous perversion of a great man, a great achievement, and a great life.

This memorial is likely never to be completed in its current form, because it will never be funded in its current form.

Monuments are civic art that cause us to solemnly reflect on who we are and what we value.

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission has repeatedly said that this memorial is primarily intended for children.

I would suggest you talk to some small business people who are desperately trying to get loans or home buyers who are desperately trying to get loans, and they are telling us they can't get them.

In fact, didn't your office estimate that the tax increases back to the Clinton era rates on those earning $200,000 as individuals, $250,000 as couples, would cost about 200,000 jobs?

Now, we are also told by your office that the sequester reductions in spending would affect about 0.6 percent of growth, you said about 750,000 jobs, because government would not be spending that money on creating government jobs.

But you either borrow it or you tax it if you are going to spend it.

I believe the House should proceed to hold Mr. Kemkar and Ms. Ishee in contempt and to pursue what legal sanctions against them that are available to us.

Noncompliance with a congressional subpoena by government officials may not be justified on the ground that they were acting under the orders of a superior.

Mr. Chairman, I believe that this House should proceed.

I am ready to have the conversation at any point in time that you would like to move forward.

We are basically paying twice for the power. We are paying once for the gas turbine to be generating, ready to flip that switch, and then we are paying again the much higher cost of wind and solar.

We are literally paying three times for the power. What consumer in his right mind would voluntarily bear such costs?

I have to say that the consistent refusal of the Secretary to respond to requests by this Committee to discuss that memo bespeaks either an autocratic contempt for the legitimate constitutional authority of Congress, or an utter lack of…

Does anybody on this panel believe that hydropower is not renewable?

They lost because the people of the Pacific Northwest know that removal of these dams would be an extreme action that would cost jobs.

To me, these glaring hypocrisies destroy their credibility and reveal an unabashedly nihilistic agenda.