We have before us HR 3640, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 18 acres in Mariposa, California as the site of a new Yosemite Visitors Center and Administrative Office Complex....
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Tom McClintock
Today the House will consider HR 822, a long-overdue measure to assure that states recognize the concealed weapons permits issued by other states....
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Tom McClintock
The International Monetary Fund estimated that as of Halloween night, the debt of this nation surpassed its entire economy for the first time since World War II....
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Tom McClintock
A generation ago, the principal objective of our federal water and power policy could be summed up in a word: Abundance. ...
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The most fatal and consequential decision a nation can make is to go to war, and the American Founders wanted that decision made by all the representatives of the people after careful deliberation. Only when Congress has made that fateful decision d...
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Ronald Reagan often said that the past four centuries proved that Providence plainly had a purpose in placing this continent between two vast oceans, preparing it to receive what Lincoln called “the last, best hope of mankind,” the American Republic....
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Tom McClintock
In a moment of breathtaking condescension during the debate over Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it…”...
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Tom McClintock
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon’s behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude....
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Tom McClintock
I believe the Founders required Congress to declare war for two important reasons. First, to assure that one individual could not plunge the nation into war as generations of European monarchs had done. And the second was to assure that in the rare ...
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The news from Iran should be a wake-up call to men and women of good will from throughout the world. Iran is arming with the avowed aim of attacking Israel and the United States....
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Tom McClintock
