mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. chairman have my friends on the left learned absolutely nothing over the past eight years? if massive government spending, higher and higher taxes, and deeper and deeper debt produced economic growth, the obama years should have been the golden age of our economy. instead, we suffered prolonged an ation, averaged 1.5% cruel growth. only half the average economic growth that our nation has enjoyed in the post-war era. the progressive and democratic budgets promise an cruel more of the same. we choose a different path. the reagan path. the that produced an average of 3.5% growth year after year, higher wages, better jobs, not just republican plcy, john f. kennedy did the same thing. he reminded us that a rising tide lifts all boats. these are the policies that create prosperity. government cannot create jobs because it cannot create wealth. but what it can do is create the conditions where jobs multiply and prosper, or where they stagnate and december appear. that it can do very well. w

mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. chairman. i now am pleased to yield to the chairman of the republican study committee, the honorable mark walker of north carolina, for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. walker: thank you, mr. speaker. $22.2 trillion. our national debt is more than $22.2 trillion. let's put it this way. each american's share of the national debt is $62,000. from the retiree in north carolina who has already done so much to serve the country, to the newborn child in new york with so much potential, $62,000. in fact, it's more than the median american family brings home in an entire year. our debt continues to mount even as federal reserves reach record highs. this leads to an undeniable conclusion even from captain obvious. the federal government has a spending problem. the growing federal government has significant negative consequences for the country and its people. the large federal debt reduces investment, productivity and wages while federal interventions in the e

mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in strong support of h.r. 289, the guides and outfitters or go act, offered by my natural resources committee colleague and my california neighbor, congressman lamalfa. for many years we've seen increasingly severe restrictions on the public's use of the public's land. one of the most golf balling aspects of this -- galling aspect of this policy is the use of exorbitant fees to prevent many group events and small business services that have often been the economic mainstay of small mountain communities like those in my district in the sierra nevadaa. this abusive practice was made possible by the federal lands recreation enhancement or flrea act in 2004. it unleashed a flood of rules, regulations and court decisions that have gradually increased the cost of permit administration for the forest service and for the bureau of land management, which these agencies in turn have used as an excuse to raise fees on the public to cost prohibitive levels. for example, the californi

mr. mcclintock. mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman gosar of the western caucus for arranging this special order tonight and especially for his exemplary leadership as chairman of the western cawculls. the wildfire crisis facing -- caucus. the wildfire crisis facing our forests in the west comes down to a simple adage. excess timber comes out of the forest one way or the other. it is either carried out or it burns out. but it comes out. when we carried out our excess timber, we had healthy, resilient forests and we had thriving, prosperous communities. excess timber sales from federal lands not only generated revenues for our mountain communities, but created thousands of jobs. but in the 1970's, we adopted laws like the national environmental policy act and the endangered species act that have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and cost-prohibitive restrictions and requirements that have made the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible. timber sales from our federal lands has dropped 80% in

mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, unsustainable government spending drives both taxes and debt. the budget resolution sets the spending architecture for the fiscal year. the house version provided for $200 billion of enforceable mandatory spending reductions over 10 years and balanced within the decade. the senate amendments gut these provisions. squandering the one opportunity congress has each year to bring mandatory spending under control, taking us another year closer to a sovereign debt crisis. i condemn it in the strongest terms. the senate, though, has retained just one key provision from the house budget. it makes tax reform possible this year. tax reform is essential to economic growth and economic growth is essential to confront our debt. now, many are alarmed it provides for $1.5 trillion of additional debt, but this is do solely to the senate rules that require tax cuts to be scored only as revenue losses without taking into account economic expansion. during the obama years, our economy grew at a

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mr. mcclintock. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for four minutes. mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and thank her for her leadership on important issue. mr. chairman, for the first time in many years, this budget uses reconciliation for the purpose it was intended. to bring mandatory spending under control. important issue. mr. chairman, for the first time in many years, the appropriations that dominate so much of the debate comprise less than one third of our total spending. that's called discretionary spending. the budget sets a level, the appropriations process spends to that level. doing everything from general government to defense. we have actually been able to control. under but the other two thirds of spending is called mandatory spending. it's beyond the annual control of congress. it continues automatically until and unless the statutes that call for it actually change. it's the mandatory spending that is eating our country alive. mandatory spending supposed to be controlled by reconciliation. instructions are sent to the vari

mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, unsustainable government spending drives both taxes and debt. the budget resolution sets the spending architecture for the fiscal year. the house version provided for $200 billion of enforceable mandatory spending reductions over 10 years and balanced within the decade. the senate amendments gut these provisions. squandering the one opportunity congress has each year to bring mandatory spending under control, taking us another year closer to a sovereign debt crisis. i condemn it in the strongest terms. the senate, though, has retained just one key provision from the house budget. it makes tax reform possible this year. tax reform is essential to economic growth and economic growth is essential to confront our debt. now, many are alarmed it provides for $1.5 trillion of additional debt, but this is do solely to the senate rules that require tax cuts to be scored only as revenue losses without taking into account economic expansion. during the obama years, our economy grew at a

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