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October 5, 2023
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.
October 3, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition of a motion to vacate the chair. Mr. Speaker: If there was ever a time for sobriety, wisdom and caution in this House, it is right now. If this motion carries, the House will be paralyzed. We can expect week after week of fruitless ballots while no other business can be conducted. The Democrats will revel in Republican dysfunction and the public will rightly be repulsed. It will end when the Democrats are able to enlist a rump caucus of Republicans to join a coalition to end the impasse. This House will shift dramatically to the left and will effectively end the Republican House majority that the voters elected in 2022.
October 2, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition of a motion to vacate the chair. Mr. Speaker: Benjamin Franklin described the limitations of any deliberative body in his closing speech to the Constitutional Convention. He said, “when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?” We have certainly approached these limits in our deliberations in recent days and I want to pause for a moment and assess where we are and where we are going.
September 29, 2023
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Tom McClintock issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein:
"Dianne Feinstein was a titan of the Senate and her passing is an incalculable loss to California, the Senate, and the country. Though we disagreed on much, I always found her approachable, reasonable and sincere. She was instrumental in advancing desperately needed forest management reforms, even when it meant bucking strident voices on the left. Her presence will be keenly missed, but her example will live on."
September 20, 2023
Washington, D.C. – H.R. 934 by Rep. Tom McClintock passed the House Natural Resources Committee today by a voice vote. The legislation requires the U.S. Forest Service to aggressively attack fires when they are first detected in forests that pose a severe fire hazard. McClintock first introduced this legislation after the disastrous Tamarack fire that was allowed to burn for 12 days before it exploded out of control and destroyed 70,000 acres of forestland in Alpine County in 2021. “It is dangerous nonsense to “monitor” incipient fires in today’s forest tinderbox, even if they seem to pose no immediate danger,” McClintock told the committee. “No person in his right mind would “monitor” a rattlesnake curled up in his bedroom because it isn’t doing much of anything. He would kill it before it does.”
September 19, 2023
Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks during a press conference discussing the House Budget Blueprint: Just as you cannot drink yourself sober, you cannot spend yourself rich. You cannot borrow your way out of debt. And you cannot tax your way to prosperity. And yet, those are the three principles upon which Bidenomics is founded. No nation in the world has ever spent, borrowed and taxed its way to economic health. But many, many nations have spent, borrowed and taxed their way to economic ruin, bankruptcy and collapse. Before any nation can ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare – it must be able to pay for them, and our nation’s ability to do so is coming into grave doubt. I believe this budget is a good faith effort to apply the principles of fiscal responsibility to federal spending before we are faced with a crisis that we can no longer pay for.
Issues:Fiscal and Economic
July 13, 2023
Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the open Southern border poses a huge security risk to our nation – his words – and that they have tracked a significant increase in crime, criminal cartel activity and gang-related cartels because of this crisis.
June 21, 2023
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
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.
June 13, 2023
Washington, D.C. – The Proven Forest Management Act, H.R. 188, has passed the House Natural Resources Committee and will next go to the House Floor.
H.R. 188 expands throughout the entire National Forest System the categorical exclusion for forest management projects that was secured for the Tahoe Basin in the 2016 WINN Act.