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February 18, 2025
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.
January 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to restore forest health and increase resiliency to catastrophic wildfires has passed the House floor. The legislation, H.R. 471, will provide agencies with critical tools to implement vital forest management projects immediately. Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) is a co-sponsor of the legislation. The Congressman delivered remarks in support of the legislation during House floor debate today, noting that provisions in the measure include his previously introduced legislation the Proven Forest Management Act. The Proven Forest Management Act expands reforms that were secured for the Tahoe Basin in the 2016 WINN Act, and which have successfully increased treated acreage in the Tahoe Basin. The legislation will next go to the Senate.
January 22, 2025
Our nation has just suffered the largest illegal mass migration in history, deliberately engineered, abetted and encouraged by President Joe Biden and his allies in Congress. For four years the American people have endured the effects of this calculated lawlessness: schools flooded with non-English speaking students, hospitals packed with illegals demanding free health care, Americans pushed out of homeless shelters to make room for illegals, an estimated $150 billion a year taken from struggling American families to pay for free food, free legal services, free transportation, free housing, free clothing, free cell phones for those who have broken into our country. Millions of American workers have been displaced, driving down wages and drying up opportunities for our own young people.
January 13, 2025
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
January 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representative Tom McClintock and members of the California congressional delegation today sent a letter to President Biden calling on him not to establish a proposed Range of Light National Monument. The proposed monument would redesignate over 1.4 million acres of federal land, including the entirety of the Sierra National Forest and the San Joaquin River Gorge. The letter is co-signed by Representatives Doug LaMalfa, Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, David Valadao, Jay Obernolte and Darrell Issa.
Issues:Local IssuesCalifornia
January 8, 2025
Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) introduced the following bills at the start of the 119th Congress:
Issues:Local Issues
December 26, 2024
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
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
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.
November 20, 2024
Today, the subcommittee meets to conduct oversight into the activities of the Office of Refugee Resettlement administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. We welcome HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to answer questions we have arising from his administration of this Office.
I think we would all agree that if a child shows up lost and alone on your doorstep, you have a moral obligation to find out where that child lives and return him safely home. The last thing any decent person would do is to take that child to a strangers house and leave him there. Yet it appears this is exactly what this administration has been doing for the last four years.
In just four years, this administration has deliberately allowed 7.6 million illegal aliens to enter the United States, releasing more than 5.7 million illegal aliens into the country while more than 1.9 million known gotaways evaded apprehension -- an illegal population larger than the state of Arizona, our fourteenth largest state.