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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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Mar 25, 2021

The majority of the people in that group of 112 averred that they have come because they felt they had been invited by President Joe Biden.

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Mar 25, 2021

Chair Nadler's bill prohibits the court from imposing any condition of release that may impose a financial on the person released.

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Mar 17, 2021

we're all entitled to equality before the law, to be treated as individuals, to be treated based on our own individual aspirations, individual achievements, and individual accomplishments, and not to be discriminated against because we…

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Mar 17, 2021

To attack our society as systemically racist, the society that has produced the freest, most prosperous, and most harmonious multiracial society in human history, well, that's an insult and it's flat out wrong.

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Mar 17, 2021

There are despicable racists of every color in every society. It is the baser side of human nature.

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Mar 17, 2021

It deeply saddens me that instead of uniting as Americans, this hearing seeks to divide us as Americans.

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Mar 17, 2021

Hostility to that government is not hostility towards victims. Quite the contrary.

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Mar 17, 2021

It seems to me--thank you. We seem to be confusing opposition to the Chinese government, including its actions during the coronavirus pandemic, with hostility toward eight Americans of Asian descent.

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Mar 17, 2021

Any racist sentiments, speech, or Act needs to be vigorously condemned.

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Mar 16, 2021

I have been trying to parse the President's message, 'Don't come now.' That certainly implies, 'Do come later.'

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Feb 16, 2021

The three-fifth provision was not a statement that slaves were three-fifths of a person; it was the result of a compromise necessary to bring into existence our new Nation.

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Feb 10, 2021

How is our Nation made safer by reopening virtually unrestricted travel with hotbeds in international terrorism?

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Feb 10, 2021

Before we took a wrecking ball to our economy last year, we were enjoying one of the greatest expansions of economic opportunity in our lifetimes.

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Feb 10, 2021

If you're going to advocate for these policies, you have an obligation to answer these questions.

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Feb 10, 2021

How are American workers helped by flooding the labor market with another wave of illegal immigration?

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Feb 10, 2021

Could it be that the Trump Administration's success in restoring control of our borders stemmed the flood of low-wage labor into the job market that had been suppressing wages for American workers for decades?

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Feb 10, 2021

How are our streets made safer by allowing aliens who drive drunk to remain on our roads rather than be arrested?

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Feb 10, 2021

If our borders mean nothing, we're no longer a country; we're just a vast international territory between Canada and Mexico.

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Sep 23, 2020

There is too much cancel culture going on right now. People are afraid. Workers are afraid to speak up for fear they are going to get fired.

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Sep 22, 2020

if there are many in the majority party who don't care enough about this issue to even show up but simply are content with phoning it in, how seriously any of us should take it.

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Jul 28, 2020

If you're opposed to electioneering by corporations, as I am, and you're opposed to Citizens United, then you've got no problem.

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Jul 27, 2020

A term we keep hearing from the left is, oh, these are mostly peaceful protests.

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Jul 27, 2020

For more than three years the most powerful agencies in our government took information that was fabricated by agents of a political campaign that they knew was fraudulent.

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Jul 27, 2020

No one has been held accountable for this grotesque abuse of power.

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Jun 10, 2020

Self-government means not only electing our representatives, but it also means dealing with the consequences of their decisions.

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