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Thomas McClintock

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Thomas Miller McClintock is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he has been an advocate for limited government and fiscal conservatism throughout his political career. McClintock has focused on issues such as tax reform, environmental policy, and government spending. He previously served in the California State Assembly and as a member of the California State Senate, where he gained recognition for his commitment to conservative principles.

Dec 11, 2023

We are told this is all for the salmon, but we are about to tear down the iron gate to dam on the Klamath River under this exact same kind of lunacy.

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Dec 11, 2023

California has now paid twice the rate for electricity as the national average, precisely because of this kind of environmental lunacy.

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Dec 4, 2023

Can you at least see how much such a memo could be viewed as open defiance to the authority of the Supreme Court and the rule of law?

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Dec 4, 2023

The precise number will tell us whether you are being candid in, in the relationship between what you say and what you do.

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Dec 4, 2023

I want to know what is the total amount? Have 60 percent of your prosecutions been directed against religious-based hate crimes directed at Jewish Americans?

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Nov 7, 2023

It seems to me there are only two ways I know of to resolve our differences as human beings. There's reason and there's force.

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Nov 7, 2023

I've never been comfortable with this concept of hate speech simply because it always seemed to be a very short step between banning hate speech and banning speech we hate.

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Nov 7, 2023

The same freedom of speech that protects my right to advocate that position is at stake here, is it not.

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Nov 7, 2023

There is a word for that. It's called tolerance.

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Nov 7, 2023

I believe that the Trump Executive Order on Combatting Anti-Semitism does something important...

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Nov 7, 2023

Freedom of speech is the beating heart of democracy.

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