April 2009

A Promise That America’s Greatest Days Still Lie Ahead

By Jon Huey, on April 29, 2009

Rep. McClintock gave the following floor speech on April 22, 2009.

M. Speaker:  The statue of Ronald Reagan could not possibly arrive at the United States Capitol at a more appropriate time in the history of our nation.

In these difficult days, we need to remind ourselves as a nation what it was like when it truly was “morning again in America.”

They say it is always darkest before the dawn, and Ronald Reagan took office at a more difficult time than the one we are having right now.

Accepting Our Money Back

By Jon Huey, on April 25, 2009

Rep. McClintock gave the following floor speech on April 21, 2009.

Mr. Speaker:  Many Americans have been shocked in recent days to learn that banks seeking to repay TARP money have been told the treasury will not allow them to do so.

Taxpayers were promised that this money was only to be used to buy up toxic assets and that it would be repaid to the treasury as soon as humanly possible.

And yet, when several banks have attempted to do precisely that, they’ve been told that the treasury will not allow them to do so.

The Silent Majority Is No Longer Silent

By Jon Huey, on April 21, 2009

Rep. McClintock gave the following speech to the Sacramento Tax Day Tea Party on April 15, 2009.

Let the word go forth today from gatherings like this across the nation that the silent majority is no longer silent.  We are stirring.  We are awakening.  We are many.  And we are Americans – the latest generation of Americans who have been called upon to defend our liberties and the constitutional principles of limited government that protect our freedom.