The Obama Administration’s Overtime Rule Hurts Workers
President Obama likes to say that Washington needs to give the American people a raise. The American people need a raise, alright, but the President needs to get it out of his head that Washington can wave a wand, declare more people will get overtime or higher pay, and people will have more money in their pockets. […]
The House Unveils Task Force Solutions to Grow Our Economy and Help Small Business
Long before I was elected into public office I was a small business owner. My very first business I created was the age of 20. It was a small deli in the city of Bakersfield, California. With every business I had I learned three lessons: As a small business owner you’re the first one to […]
The House Work of Counterterrorism
The Chairmen’s Task Force on Counterterrorism and Homeland Security—formed in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Paris last November—met to discuss how the House can respond to the Orlando terrorism attack in the weeks to come. America is no stranger to terrorism, but these new threats are of a different nature than the old. […]
Water is Not a Luxury, It is a Necessity
(Editor’s Note: Following is the speech House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave on the House floor yesterday supporting provisions in the Energy and Water appropriations bill that would ease the drought in the West.) Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment to thank another Representative—Representative David Valadao (CA-21). It is rare to find a […]
More Damaging Regulations Hurt the Economy
The Obama Administration and the EPA have once again taken side with the far-left environmental special interests to issue damaging and unnecessary regulations against the oil and gas industry and its workers. According to EPA’s own data, methane emissions from oil and natural gas production-related activities only account for less than two percent of total […]
More Misdirection On Our Plan For California Water
Let’s just get right to it. Appearing in yesterday’s Sacramento Bee, is an editorial titled, “GOP should drop effort to gut Endangered Species Act.” And like past editorials on this topic, the misrepresentation is as blatant as the Kern River is dry — and both are damaging for our state. This “effort” the editorial board refers to is […]
Protecting the Internet for Thousands of Users
(Editor’s Note: Last week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor on Representative Greg Walden’s (OR-02) Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, the first bill of the Innovation Initiative. His remarks on this small business endeavor are reprinted below.) “Mr. Speaker, government policy is stuck in the past. Regulators from the 20th century agencies are trying […]
Response to State of the Union
The President is right to say the world is changing, but his agenda continues to put America in a weaker position at home and abroad to respond to that change. His policies at home have bred division and left people stuck in a stagnant economy, and his negligence abroad has led to more instability and insecurity. We […]
High-Speed Rail is Failing. California Must Have the Courage to Change
The liberals in Sacramento have blinders on. Their tunnel vision focus on completing this high-speed rail project in California regardless of the cost, delays, and lack of ridership interest puts California taxpayers at big risk for little, if any, gain. The evidence keeps coming in that Sacramento has broken its promise to the people of […]
El Niño is coming. Are we ready?
The anticipation is building. Stories and news reports are popping up everywhere. Predictions and expectations fill coffee shops and social media. No, I’m not talking about the 2024 Olympics in Los Angeles. I am talking about El Niño. And, chances are that it will arrive this winter along with plenty of precipitation. The winter months […]