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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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Oct 20, 2021

Do you think that the failure to prosecute illegal border crossings might have something to do with the fact that our border is now being overwhelmed by illegal immigrants who tell reporters they wouldn't have considered making that trip…

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Oct 20, 2021

If that doesn't call for an independent investigation of the President, what would?

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Jul 26, 2021

As I noted earlier, states are the laboratories of democracy and are better equipped to make decisions regarding fines and fees implemented in the State statutes and municipal codes.

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Jul 26, 2021

The important and salient point here is that the State legislature made that change, the corrective, without being coerced or enticed by the United States Congress.

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Jul 26, 2021

Wouldn't you say that is the ultimate voter suppression?

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Jul 26, 2021

So, they have got to have confidence in the integrity of the vote.

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Jul 26, 2021

We looked our neighbors in the eye as we identified ourselves and they handed us our ballot.

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Jul 26, 2021

By definition, in a democracy, somebody is always going to win, and somebody is always going to lose.

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Jul 12, 2021

Is there a shortage of genuine STEM workers in the United States?

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Jul 12, 2021

We are incentivizing people in America not to work, and then we're coming back on the other side here and saying, hey, we've got to have more people that come from foreign countries.

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Jul 12, 2021

Madam Chair, I would like to make a unanimous consent request to enter several statements into the record.

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Jul 12, 2021

The crisis on our southern border that's been produced by President Biden's executive orders is continuing unabated and unaddressed.

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Jul 12, 2021

It just really highlights how disastrous our immigration system is. We really need reform from top to bottom to get a reasoned immigration system.

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Jul 12, 2021

So, these are not, by and large, world-renowned biophysicists coming to the United States.

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Jul 12, 2021

Having this uncontrolled immigration--and I've got to tell you, when we see what's happening in Haiti, in Cuba right now, where those people want freedom, and people are scared to death that we're going to see another mass migration...

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Jul 12, 2021

Maybe this is something the Democrats and Republicans could get together on. Maybe we have too many organizations.

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Jul 11, 2021

Thank you so much for being here today, and I would like to know who the 21 people are that voted against you.

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Jun 29, 2021

The only oath that any public official takes is not to support and defend the country, not to support and defend the government, it is to support and defend the Constitution.

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Jun 29, 2021

In his opinion the American Revolution started many, many years before 1776 with the King's abuse of general warrants.

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Jun 29, 2021

How have we allowed ourselves to get so far from these fundamental Fourth Amendment principles that underpin our liberty?

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Jun 29, 2021

This is not a matter of special protections for journalists or public officials. This is a matter of the Fourth Amendment right of every American citizen.

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Jun 28, 2021

Democracy depends on the losing side accepting the legitimacy of the election.

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Jun 23, 2021

When an aircraft carrier commander has an outbreak of COVID on his ship and sends through non-secure channels that he can't engage in combat because he has some COVID cases, again, that statement doesn't ring true to me.

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Jun 23, 2021

That sounds like a catastrophic management failure.

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Jun 23, 2021

What are you doing to assure the American taxpayer that every dollar is devoted to a Navy that is ready and willing to fight?

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