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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 19, 2019

Why were these five people given immunity from prosecution?

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Jun 18, 2019

Finally, I would urge the members of this subcommittee and the House of Representatives as a whole to ponder carefully the message that will be conveyed by the passage of this bill, H.R. 40.

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Jun 18, 2019

When you are behind in a foot race, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., said in 1963, the only way to get ahead is to run faster than the man in front of you.

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Jun 10, 2019

A vibrant press has been critical to the success of our democracy since the founding of the republic.

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Jun 10, 2019

It is because I embrace these principles that I am excited to have joined Subcommittee Chairman Cicilline in the introduction of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.

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Jun 10, 2019

If individual news outlets could count on being able to negotiate fair attribution and advertising revenue agreements with the online platforms, the bleeding could be stopped.

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Jun 9, 2019

He did, and he found no collusion. And he sort of punted on obstruction of justice, but the Attorney General determined no obstruction of justice.

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Jun 9, 2019

I thought the responsible thing to do was to reserve my judgment until the special counsel... completed his report on the matter.

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Jun 9, 2019

Despite an outrageously biased team of partisan zealots who were assembled by Mr. Mueller... the $25 million, 22-month investigation found no evidence to support the collusion lie.

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Jun 9, 2019

So now we have a new lie, that the President obstructed justice in the investigation in which he was falsely accused of treason.

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Jun 9, 2019

Two revelations have already arisen involving the Mueller report.

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Jun 9, 2019

Everybody knows what is going on here. For 2 and a half years now, the American people were force fed this monstrous lie that Donald Trump is a traitor who conspired with a hostile foreign government to steal the election.

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Jun 9, 2019

I believe that you use everything that you've got, do as much business as you want and generate as much as you want to work for yourself.

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Jun 9, 2019

The entire genesis of the Russia collusion hoax was the Steele dossier and how it was used by government officials to promote this false narrative.

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Jun 9, 2019

I appreciate your right to be here, and I appreciate your right to share it anywhere else, but don't appreciate the fact that here we are again with priorities in this committee turned upside down.

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Jun 9, 2019

For those of us who've been looking into this for a while and wonder how we got started here... I believe that they have the godfather here today, Mr. Dean.

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Jun 9, 2019

For 2 and a half years now, the American people were force fed this monstrous lie that Donald Trump is a traitor who conspired with a hostile foreign government to steal the election.

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Jun 9, 2019

But I don't believe it is the priority of this committee to have to come and hear from those who are not a part of the Mueller investigation.

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Jun 9, 2019

This lie was concocted through a phony dossier commissioned by the Clinton campaign.

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Jun 9, 2019

I have to tell you, if every politician told his--who tells his staff, 'I'd like to strangle that guy,' is ipso facto guilty of attempted measured, you might as well turn out the lights and close the doors in this building.

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Jun 3, 2019

There is no such thing as a potential human being. There are only human beings from the moment of conception.

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Jun 3, 2019

I have spent many hours with and conducted extraordinary depositions of abortion providers, some of whom boasted about personally performing tens of thousands of abortions each.

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Jun 3, 2019

They do their very best to avoid phrases like 'unborn child,' and try to defend and deny the gruesome reality of abortion.

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Jun 3, 2019

I authored and passed a ban on the barbaric dismemberment abortion procedure in my State.

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Jun 3, 2019

If a mother is in labor I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated, if that is what the mother and the family desired, and then a…

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