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June 3, 2025
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The 750,000-acre national park can welcome many more visitors than it does today without restricting access.  All that is missing is a visitor-friendly attitude by Yosemite Park management and a willingness to be a good neighbor to the gateway communities and businesses that depend on tourism.

Issues:Local IssuesCalifornia
March 6, 2025
Columns

What is the actual number of layoffs at Yosemite National Park that will bring this beautiful Valley to rack and ruin?  Ten.  Ten probationary employees.  Ten out of nearly 500 full-time winter employees.  Twenty-five if you include early retirements.  And no fire fighters.

Issues:Local IssuesCalifornia
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.

Issues:ConstitutionFiscal and Economic
January 13, 2025
Columns
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discussing the California Wildfires.
Issues:Forest FireCalifornia
December 26, 2024
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The federal government can’t raise or spend a single dollar unless Congress says it can. Fiscal responsibility rests with lawmakers—and can’t be dodged, or DOGEd. Fifty years ago Congress developed a process specifically designed to bring spending in line with revenues: budget reconciliation. Unfortunately, it has rarely been used for its intended purpose. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Rep. McClintock discusses restoring the budget reconciliation process.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
December 13, 2024
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In the attached column, Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) examines the cost and impact of federal grants on the national economy. Between 2016 and 2020, federal grant spending ballooned from $675 billion to $972 billion. Budget writers and appropriators should look with extreme skepticism on every grant that awards money without results or that robs taxpayers in one community to pay for projects in another.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
December 5, 2024
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In the attached column Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) discusses the cost and reach of subsides and the impact of subsidies on the national economy. Insurance, electric cars, mass transit, sugar, milk, solar panels, airline tickets, housing, tuition, health care, film production, green energy – it is hard to find a sector of the economy that isn’t rife with subsidies. Subsidies not only cost hundreds of billions of dollars and inflate the prices of the things being subsidized, but they also misallocate resources and misdirect consumer decisions.
February 6, 2024
Columns

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
Columns
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
Columns
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.