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February 6, 2024
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) released the following memo on the case against the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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November 20, 2023
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As Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas has carried out the Biden administration’s open borders policy and deliberately produced the worst illegal mass migration in history. Since he took office, he has released three million illegal immigrants directly into the country, a population the size of Arkansas. And while the Border Patrol has been occupied changing diapers and taking names, an additional 1.7 million known got-aways have entered as well – an additional illegal population the size of Hawaii. The impact on schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, working families’ wages, social programs, law enforcement, national security and has been catastrophic. In response, many are demanding Mayorkas’ impeachment for “failing to maintain operational control of the border,” as Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resolution puts it. He is certainly guilty of that and more: maladministration, malfeasance, and neglect of duties on a truly historic scale. But these are not impeachable offenses. We know this because the American Founders specifically rejected these terms at the Constitutional Convention.
November 6, 2023
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The vile ideology of antisemitism and hatred has grown on the political left to the point it has now permeated the House of Representatives. The congressional apologists for Hamas and its aim to obliterate Israel would destroy all of Western Civilization if allowed to have their way. Anyone who doubts that need only look at the atrocities and horror Hamas unleashed on the peaceful neighborhoods of Israel on October 7th. There are no words strong enough to adequately express contempt and disgust for this ideology and its adherents in the House. It should be denounced and marginalized within Congress and its advocates should be removed from office by the constituencies who sent them here. But punishing members of Congress for their political views – even the most extreme and objectionable views – is a slippery slope we must avoid for our own sakes.
October 5, 2023
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The decisions that run the House, especially the election of the Speaker, belong to the majority. When the majority fails to vote as a majority, it ceases to be one. On Tuesday, eight Republicans stole that decision from the Republican conference and stole the House majority from the voters who elected it. What is to be done? Each day that goes by without a Speaker, the House is paralyzed to act on the dangers bearing down on us. Each day brings us closer to a power-sharing arrangement that will move the House sharply to the left and eliminate the only political counterweight in our elected government to the woke left. No candidate for Speaker is likely to receive 96 percent of the Republican Conference vote required by this new precedent. Anyone who can achieve this feat will be captive to the whims of any five members with a grievance on any particular day. Any Speaker elected under these terms would be unstable, weak and transient.
June 21, 2023
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Mr. Speaker: I opposed the original version of this resolution, not to defend Mr. Schiff’s lies, but to defend the process that exposed those lies. We must never punish speech in this House – only acts. The only way to separate truth from falsehoods or wisdom from folly is free and open debate. And we must never impose excessive fines that would effectively replace the constitutional 2/3 vote for expulsion with a simple majority. This new version removes the fine and focuses instead on specific acts: most particularly the abuse of his position as Intelligence Chairman by implying he had access to classified information that did not exist; and his placement into the Congressional Record of the Steele dossier that he knew, or should have known, was false.
June 14, 2023
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The Russia collusion hoax is the single dirtiest political trick in the history of American politics. We now know that it was entirely concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign and ruthlessly used by partisans in the FBI to affect the 2016 election and then to undermine the legitimately elected president of the United States. Mr. Schiff’s active role in promoting this hoax is disgraceful and damning. But that is not the question before us. The question before us is whether a member of Congress should be censored and fined for speech, even outlandish speech, during the public policy debate. We have gone much too far down this road and it is time we turned back.
May 30, 2023
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Representative McClintock (CA-05) today released the following statement on the Fiscal Responsibility Act: In 2011, Congress faced an impasse on raising the debt limit. It was the first year of a new Republican House majority and the third year of a spendthrift Obama administration.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
January 4, 2023
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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
November 21, 2022
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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
September 21, 2022
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When Donald Trump left office, we had restored operational control of our southern border. The wall was nearing completion. Court ordered deportations were finally being enforced. The Migrant Protection Protocols negotiated with Mexico had reduced the number of fraudulent asylum claims to a trickle. All that Biden needed to do was to continue these policies. Instead, he reversed them on his first day in office. He ordered the border wall to be abandoned, leaving construction gaps that make it useless. He ordered ICE to cease enforcing the law. He ended Trump‘s remain-in-Mexico policy. And he sent a clear and unmistakable message heard around the world: America is now a nation without borders.
Issues:Illegal Immigration - Border Crisis