Years ago, I worked for the legendary chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Ed Davis. He once told me his philosophy of law enforcement, and it came down to this. He said, “It is not the responsibility of the police department to enforce t...
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Tom McClintock
We meet to discuss the budget under the ominously growing shadow of unprecedented debt that has literally doubled in the last eight years. With crushing debt comes ruinous interest that the CBO warns will exceed our entire military budget within the...
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Six years ago, the Tea Party formed. As Lincoln once said of Republicans, “We did so in response to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds and...
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Thank you for the invitation to address you today, and thank you for the work that you are doing protect babies and their mothers from the fatal consequences of abortion. Many pro-life groups concentrate on the baby, but the mothers are victims too ...
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The United States now staggers under $18 trillion of debt, including nearly $7 ½ trillion run up by this administration. The interest on that debt is the fastest growing component of the federal budget. The debt limit is how our government regul...
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Every year, as Amtrak’s operating losses have mounted, Congress has dutifully shoveled more money at it; every year, its Congressional supporters have promised reforms to bring these losses under control; and every year these promises have fallen fla...
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The genius of our Constitution can be found in the separation of powers that has preserved our freedom for 225 years. The American Founders recognized that what had gone so terribly wrong in Europe was that the same organ of government that made the...
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Today, Islamic Fascism is emboldened and ascendant throughout the region. Most disturbing of all, Iran is on the verge of a nuclear break-out, and has made its intention to use these weapons crystal clear to anyone who has been listening....
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I want to thank you for the hard work, long hours, and generous contributions you have made to the Republican cause and its candidates. Republicans went all out last year, and we saw one of the great watershed elections in American history – far ecl...
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Tom McClintock
