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"Today we set in motion events that will require far more difficult and painful decisions starting just five months from now in what is likely to be a much worse economy. I am afraid that with this vote, for the second time in a decade, this state is being driven to another Gray Davis-sized fiscal crisis that this vote makes inevitable for exactly the same reasons: Lack of restraint in good times combined with a lack of discipline in bad times."
--- Senator Tom McClintock on August 21, 2007 during a Senate Floor debate on the day the state budget was sent to the governor |
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| July 21, 2008 |
Statement to State Water Resources Control Board |
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Your board meets today to consider revoking permits that are necessary for proceeding with construction of the Auburn Dam. I'm sure there'll be a detailed legal discussion on both sides involving exactly what constitutes due diligence in overcoming the endless legal obstacles that have delayed this project since it was first authorized by Congress in 1965. |
| January 30, 2008 |
Global Warming Curriculum - SB 908 (Simitian) |
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I would gladly vote for this bill if there was a requirement that the curriculum on global warming be science-based and balanced. That discussion and examination is desperately needed not only in our schools but in the halls of government. |
| January 14, 2008 |
Houston I. Flournoy |
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Mr. President: I rise with sadness to note the passing of former State Assemblyman and former State Controller Houston I. Flournoy. Hugh Flournoy truly was a remarkable and rare public servant who never lusted for political positions except as a means to a higher end. Though he was disdainful of politics in general and political office in particular, he cared very deeply about this state and its people. |
| January 14, 2008 |
Playing Cuttlefish with the Budget |
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Abraham Lincoln finally had enough of Stephen Douglas' obfuscations when they met to debate in Charleston, Illinois. He said, "Judge Douglas is playing cuttlefish – a small species of fish that has no mode of defending himself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it, and thus it escapes." Lincoln's cuttlefish story came to mind during the governor's State of the State message when he blamed the state's massive budget deficit on formulae that lock in spending. |
| October 9, 2007 |
SB(2X) 2 – Perata - Water Bond |
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California's water shortage is real. The last major dam built in this state was the New Melones in 1979. In the intervening time, the population has grown from 23 million to 38 million people. California now stores less than one year's water consumption in the entire system, which is why the prospect of even a moderate drought has become ominous. |
| August 21, 2007 |
Speech by Senator McClintock Opposing SB 86 on Property Seizures, Senate Chambers |
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This bill is opposable on many grounds, but I want to focus on the provisions related to the state's practice of looting safe deposit boxes and retirement and college funds under the pretense that they are abandoned solely because their owners have set them aside for three years. The federal district court has issued an injunction ordering the state Controller to cease this practice. |
| August 21, 2007 |
Senator McClintock's Speech Opposing the 2007-08 Budget, Senate Chambers |
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The budget package that comes before us today is at least slightly improved over what was put before the Senate the night it walked off the job and went on summer holiday on August 1st. At least an effort has been made to balance the budget on paper. And that's something, since we just closed the last budget year with what appears to be the biggest budget deficit in California's history, a deficit that has reduced the $10 1/2 billion budget reserve that we began the last year with to around $4 billion. |
| August 16, 2007 |
What's It All About |
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This is not the first time the California Legislature has reached an impasse in its budget negotiations. In past years the state has gone until early September without a budget agreement. But whenever the budget has snagged in the past, legislators kept working to resolve it. This is the first time in California's history that they simply walked off the job. |
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