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Tom McClintock Sends Message To GOP Holdouts Of Reconciliation Bill_ 'The Common Good Is Clearly Served'
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5/16/2025
On Friday, at a House Budget Committee markup of 'One Big Beautiful Bill', Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) spoke about the importance of passing the Republican legislation.
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I thank the gentleman from Texas and now recognize my friend, Mr. Tom McClintock from California
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for three minutes.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I share the disappointment expressed by some of our Republican colleagues
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that there's so much more reform that could have been and should have been made in this
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reconciliation bill.
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But as Benjamin Franklin reminded the Constitutional Convention, when you assemble a group of people
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to benefit from their collective wisdom, you will also get their collective folly.
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He asked them, from such an assembly can perfection be expected?
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He noted that the principal difference between the Catholic and Anglican Church was that the
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Catholic Church was infallible and the Anglican Church was never wrong.
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But he reminded them, as sure as we may be of our own perfection and infallibility, we
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must all doubt a little of that infallibility if we will ever be able to come together for
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the common good.
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And the common good is clearly served by this bill, with all of its imperfections and disappointments.
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The only economic indicator that matters is how people answer this question next year,
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are you better off today than you were two years ago?
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This bill provides much of the tax and regulatory relief that is needed to revive the American
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economy, but it has to be put in place now if it is to have time to work.
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By this time next year, Americans could be enjoying one of the most explosive periods of growth
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in our history.
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Only those who remember what it was like to wake up in Reagan's morning in America can
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know how exciting and joyful that feels.
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Are we to sacrifice all of that in the quixotic quest for perfection?
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This is not the end of the fiscal reforms necessary to restore our nation's solvency, but rather
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the first step.
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The day after this bill becomes law, we will begin work on the 2026 Budget Act and the next
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reconciliation bill that will offer the next step toward enacting additional spending reforms.
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But if we falter in taking this first step, we can't get to the next one.
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We will waste the summer squabbling and fuming to the delight of the Democrats and to the
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despair of the American people.
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If we succeed, we can then build on that success in the months ahead, adding additional spending
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reforms, a task that we've made easier by a prosperous and expanding economy and an electorate
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that can taste the success in their own lives and fortunes.
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As Lincoln said, it's not can any of us imagine better, but can we all do better.
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He said, we can't escape history, for we will either nobly save or meanly lose the last best
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hope of mankind.
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He said, we must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country.
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Let's do that today.
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I yield back.
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Let's do that.
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