Speeches
March 28, 2023
Washington, DC – Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 1.
Madam Speaker:
Everything around us that makes our lives possible is either mined or it’s grown. Everything.
Issues:Natural Resources Committee
March 9, 2023
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.
March 9, 2023
Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks during an event highlighting H. Res. 100:
February 8, 2023
Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks during a press conference honoring the introduction of H. Res. 100:
Good morning. I want to heartily welcome all of you who are joining us to announce the introduction of House Resolution 100. This measure, which 165 members of the House of Representatives have introduced as original co-sponsors – Republicans and Democrats alike – expresses our united support for the Iranian people in their struggle for a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran. And it condemns the violations of human rights and the state-sponsored terrorism of the Iranian regime.
January 11, 2023
Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered remarks on the House floor today honoring the retirement of El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini.
January 10, 2023
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.
December 2, 2022
Whether in 60 seconds or 60 hours, it’s impossible to do justice to the heroism, patriotism and service that defines the life of Bud Anderson. God bless you, General Anderson. Congratulations on your honorary promotion to brigadier general. Thank you from a grateful nation.
December 1, 2022
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 17, 2022
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 29, 2022
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.