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December 2, 2022
Vote Notes on Legislation
This bill reauthorizes and increases funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program through FY 2027.  Yes, home visits by social workers to at-risk families is a good thing to do, and I supported reauthorization in 2017.  But given the dire financial condition of the federal government – and the absence of a federal nexus that justifies a grant program of this nature – I believe this is a decision that should be left to state and local governments to implement at their discretion and with their resources, as many did before the federal program began.  Worse, according to the bill’s Committee Report,  “we lack data about the impact of interventions funded by the federal program.”  Translation: nobody knows if it even works.
December 1, 2022
Speeches
It is time we spend taxpayers’ money as carefully as they spend what they have left after we’ve taxed them into debt.  This bill falls short of that responsibility.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
November 30, 2022
Vote Notes on Legislation
The looming railroad strike would cause significant short-term damage to the economy: supply chain disruptions, price spikes, shortages, all in time for the Christmas holidays.  But this measure would cause significant long-tern damage, by asserting government fiat into what should rightfully be terms freely negotiated between employers and employees.  The terms of this agreement are certain to produce significant and permanent price increases on consumers by dramatically increasing the cost of shipping everything that travels by rail.  Above all, this crisis argues for removing the compulsive nature of forced unionism and to restore the fundamental right of individuals to make their own decisions and negotiate terms that to them are most advantageous to their needs.  Twenty-six states have right to work laws and they tend to be those with the most prosperous economies and standards of living.  It’s time to implement the same reforms nationally.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
November 21, 2022
Columns
The American people have entrusted Republicans with the House majority at a time of unprecedented fiscal peril for our country: 40-year high inflation, economic recession, and an approaching debt crisis – all driven by the most reckless spending in our nation’s history. And history is screaming this warning: nations that bankrupt themselves aren’t around very long. Republicans must reclaim the mantle of fiscal integrity and fiscal responsibility. A good place to start would be to renounce the tawdry practice of congressional earmarks, in which individual members insert provisions in bills that direct spending to pet projects in their districts or to favored supporters, bypassing merit-driven competition. The House Republican Conference will consider just such a proposal when Congress returns after Thanksgiving.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
November 17, 2022
Speeches
Republicans must reclaim the mantle of fiscal integrity and fiscal responsibility – and we should start by renouncing the tawdry, corrupt, and irresponsible practice of congressional earmarks: in which individual members direct spending to pet projects in their districts or grants to favored supporters, bypassing merit-driven competition.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
September 30, 2022
Vote Notes on Legislation
I am highly skeptical of pilot programs that are automatically extended without proving their worth, and taxpayer grants to businesses where private investors are unwilling to risk their own capital.  Finally, the increasing financial entanglement between businesses and government is unhealthy in a free society and is a breeding ground for corruption, political favoritism and misallocation of resources.  For all these reasons, I am a no vote.
September 29, 2022
Speeches
This bill imposes $1.4 billion of new fees on large companies seeking mergers and makes it easier to block those mergers. Now mergers only occur when they promote efficiency and productivity – they only occur when they enhance a company’s ability to provide better goods and services at lower prices.  Interfering in this process harms the prosperity of every American. Let’s start with the simple fact that taxes and fees on businesses aren’t paid by businesses.  They’re paid by consumers through higher prices, employees through lower wages and investors through lower earnings.  How does increasing consumer prices protect consumers? Where will these fees go?  Well, they’re going to go to increasingly corrupt bureaucracies like the FTC.  That agency is now led by a radical leftist who has declared her intention to use the powers of government to replace consumer decisions with her own – all to advance her brand of ideological zealotry.
September 29, 2022
Speeches
Mr. Speaker: For two weeks now, the long-suffering people of Iran have taken to the streets to confront the thugocracy that has oppressed them for more than 40 years. Today, America must stand with the people of Iran.
Issues:Foreign Affairs - International
September 29, 2022
WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-04) and Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus, issued the following statement condemning the brutality of the Iranian regime’s revolutionary guards and expressing support for protesters following the death of Mahsa Amini.
September 22, 2022
Speeches

Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor.

Watch the full remarks here and a transcript is below:

Mr. Speaker: