Press Releases

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the three Water and Power Subcommittee bills before us today.

Representative Tom McClintock’s office learned today that Lake Clementine will remain open through fiscal year 2010, and that the Bureau of Reclamation will continue to fund and manage recreation and land use at the lake through that time.

Below is a letter to Auburn Mayor Jim Holmes. Representative McClintock will continue to press for a lasting solution that will keep Lake Clementine open.

Letter from Representative McClintock to Mayor Mike Holmes:

September 25, 2009

Mayor Mike Holmes
City of Auburn
1225 Lincoln Way
Auburn, CA 95603

September 10, 2009. Thank you Mr. Chairman. First of all, I want to say what a delight it has been to work with Chairwoman Napolitano, who has given all of these bills a fair, balanced and complete hearing.

We have six Water and Power subcommittee bills before us today. They are bi-partisan and well intentioned and seek to stretch scarce water supplies throughout the Southwest. But I do have some serious concerns that need to be addressed in the near future.

IMPORTANT NOTE: CAMERON PARK TOWN HALL HAS BEEN MOVED DUE TO ANTICIPATED CROWD SIZE.

Now held at Ponderosa High School in Shingle Springs 3661 Ponderosa Road, 4:30 p.m September 5.

Representative McClintock Announces Town Hall Meetings

Sept. 1, 6:00 pm
Granite Bay/Roseville
Granite Bay High School Gym
1 Grizzly Way

Sept 3rd 5:00 pm
Susanville
Jensen Hall, Lassen County Fair Grounds

Sept. 4, 6:00 pm
Grass Valley
Veterans Hall, 255 S. Auburn St

Washington, DC – Congressman Tom McClintock has selected Claire Mars of Alta Sierra, California as his nominee to the 2009 Fall Congressional Page Program. Mars, a sixteen year old junior at William & Marian Ghidotti High School, will serve as a page in the U.S .House of Representatives for the fall semester which runs from late August 2009 through January 2010.

“I’m very excited to be selected as a Congressional page,” Mars said. “I hope to learn a lot more about how the Congress works, and meet new friends from all around the nation.”

July 15, 2009. Mr. Chairman: As we begin deliberations on this measure, we need to be mindful that the law of unintended consequences is beyond the jurisdiction of the Congress, and needs to be considered carefully.

This proposal affects the lives of every American, and ought to be approached with a high degree of humility and caution.

As imperfect as the current system is, it is well within our power to make it a great deal worse.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today named Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-04) as the new Ranking Member of the Water and Power Subcommittee. McClintock will take over the position from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) who was recently selected to serve as Ranking Member of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee on the Education and Labor Committee.

I had a strange sense of Deja Vu as I watched the self-congratulatory rhetoric on the house floor tonight, and I feel compelled to offer this warning from the Left Coast.

Three years ago, I stood on the floor of the California Senate and watched a similar celebration over a similar bill, AB 32. And I have spent the last three years watching as that law has dangerously deepened California’s recession. It uses a different mechanism than Cap and Trade, but the objective is the same: to force a dramatic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.