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Tom 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.

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Jun 12, 2024

When this failed, they continued to pursue it to undermine the Trump Administration, question legitimacy of the election, and shook this country apart for more than two years before the lie was finally fully exposed to the public thanks to…

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Jun 12, 2024

Hunter Biden laptop contained emails that clearly documented longstanding influenced peddling scheme involving the Biden family in which millions of dollars were paid.

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Jun 12, 2024

In the 2016 Presidential election, the FBI, the DOJ, and our intelligence agencies used their power to legitimize the lie that had been concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Trump was colluding with the Russians despite knowing…

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Jun 12, 2024

Of course, the leftist lawfare didn't start here. I think it started when the Democrats used the IRS to target Tea Party volunteers for harassment and intimidation in advance of the 2012 Presidential election.

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Jun 12, 2024

These agencies use their powers to legitimize it, to authorize spying on the Trump campaign.

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Jun 12, 2024

Of course, the leftist lawfare didn't start here.

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Jun 12, 2024

What really frightens me is what happens to our country when Trump--if Trump narrowly loses the election and the case is then overturned and repudiated and exposed by the higher courts. That could tear our country apart.

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Jun 12, 2024

It's the turning of the most terrifying powers that government possesses against its own citizens to influence elections.

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Jun 3, 2024

A quarter of our national forests gone, simply gone.

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Jun 3, 2024

The Federal forests are absolutely decrepit. Again, one quarter of them destroyed. Yet, we lose money.

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Jun 3, 2024

it's important that your Department be above reproach and clearly, it's not.

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Jun 3, 2024

for the first time in American history, we do have a Presidential Administration that's working to put its opponent in jail.

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Jun 3, 2024

I have been trying to get legislation to the Floor that will extend those policies nationally.

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Jun 3, 2024

And we agree that about a quarter of those forests have now been destroyed by these policies.

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Jun 3, 2024

I think it actually saved the city of South Lake Tahoe from the Caldor Fire.

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Jun 3, 2024

I worry about the stage is set for something very bad happening in the very near future because of your Administration's policies.

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Jun 3, 2024

Not because of a lack of resources, but because the laws that have been adopted in the 1970s make it cost prohibitive.

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Jun 3, 2024

My greatest fear is that we could face a coordinated terrorist attack from elements among the millions who have entered this country illegally over the last three years.

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May 28, 2024

With the cooperation; just less cooperation.

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May 28, 2024

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement will come to order.

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May 28, 2024

Well, I don't know that because we are not able to always get cooperation and run those background checks on everyone.

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May 28, 2024

Abraham Lincoln told his generation that they were destined to be remembered because they were destined to either nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of mankind on this earth.

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May 28, 2024

They were staffed better, and like I said, we typically only have one deputy on patrol at a time.

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May 28, 2024

I fear a coordinated attack at multiple targets at the same hour, the same day, leaving thousands of dead Americans all across the country, and I am afraid that this day is coming.

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