Constitution

“Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act” Folded into HR 1958 and Passed by the House Judiciary Committee

January 13, 2026

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today passed HR 1958 (Taylor) with Rep. McClintock’s legislation “Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act” folded into the bill.

Issues:ConstitutionIllegal Immigration - Border CrisisLegislationGovernment Regulation

Denouncing Socialism

November 21, 2025

Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of House Concurrent Resolution 58 denouncing socialism.

Excerpt: Many societies have succumbed to the siren song of a benevolent, all-powerful government only to awaken one morning to find the benevolence is gone and the all-powerful government is still there.

Let that not be the epitaph of the United States of America.

Issues:Constitution

On the Censure of Ilhan Omar

September 17, 2025

Press Release

Statement by Rep. Tom McClintock on the Ilhan Omar censure resolution: Ilhan Omar’s comments regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk are vile and contemptible. They deserve the harshest criticism of every man and woman of good will. But this disgusting and hateful speech is still speech and is protected by our First Amendment.

Issues:Constitution

No Rogue Rulings Act

April 8, 2025

Speeches

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025:

Video Link
Mr. Speaker:

Issues:ConstitutionJudiciary Committee

Musk and Democracy

February 18, 2025

Columns

Hell hath no fury like the deep state scorned. That’s become obvious from the over-the-top hysterics directed against Elon Musk as he turns over bureaucratic rocks and shines a light on what has been going on beneath them.

Rep. McClintock Column Musk and Democracy:

Musk and Democracy
By Congressman Tom McClintock

Issues:ConstitutionFiscal and Economic

The Default Prevention Act: Guarantees the Debt of the U.S. Will Always Be Paid in Full and on Time

March 9, 2023

Speeches

I want to thank the Ways and Means Committee for taking up my HR 187, the Default Prevention Act. Similar bills I have introduced passed the House in 2013 and 2015, and I am gratified the Committee would take it up in this session. The bill simply provides that even if there is a fiscal impasse in our deliberations over the debt limit, the debt of the United States will always be paid in full and on time.

Issues:ConstitutionFiscal and Economic

Rep. McClintock Introduces Six Bills at the Start of the 118th Congress

January 12, 2023

Press Release

California Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) introduced several bills at the start of the 118th Congress.

Issues:ConstitutionLocal IssuesLegislationForest Fire

We Must Investigate the Weaponization of the Federal Government

January 10, 2023

Speeches

In order to enforce our laws, we have given terrifying powers to such agencies as the FBI, the IRS, and the CIA, among others. The misuse of these powers to affect political outcomes would be fatal to freedom and it is the hallmark of any dictatorship. This, our Constitution was written to prevent – whoever is in power.

Issues:ConstitutionJudiciary Committee

The Republicans' Challenge

January 4, 2023

Columns

Two irresistible forces are converging over the election of a Speaker of the House. One is simple math; the other is the full weight of history.

Issues:ConstitutionGovernment Regulation

The Racist Left

May 17, 2021

Columns

Racism is the practice of according rights and privileges to an individual not based on equality under the law, but rather according to what race that person was born. It is antithetical to every principle our country was founded on, from the promise of our Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” to the equal protection clause of our Constitution. It was a malignancy we fought a Civil War to remove. For generations, it has been denounced by every American of good will for the evil that it is.

Issues:ConstitutionJudiciary Committee

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