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.
Thomas McClintock
The Public Record
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.
How is our Nation made safer by reopening virtually unrestricted travel with hotbeds in international terrorism?
How are American workers helped by flooding the labor market with another wave of illegal immigration?
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?
If you're going to advocate for these policies, you have an obligation to answer these questions.
How are our streets made safer by allowing aliens who drive drunk to remain on our roads rather than be arrested?
If our borders mean nothing, we're no longer a country; we're just a vast international territory between Canada and Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
If you're opposed to electioneering by corporations, as I am, and you're opposed to Citizens United, then you've got no problem.





