{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where party = \"Republican\", state = \"CA\" and year = 2010 sorted by date descending", "rows": [["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-appointed-chairman-house-water-and-power", "Congressman Tom McClintock Appointed Chairman House Water and Power Subcommittee", "2010-12-30", "2010", "2010-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--Representative Tom McClintock, CA-04, has been appointed Chairman of the Water and Power Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee in the 112th Congress. McClintock served as Ranking Member of the subcommittee in the previous Congress, earning a reputation as a strong advocate for developing the nation\u2019s natural resources.\n\n\u201cI am pleased to announce the appointment of Tom McClintock as the Chairman of the Water and Power Subcommittee,\u201d said in-coming House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings. \u201cAs Ranking Member he fought to restore abundance as the principal objective of federal water and power policy and to protect jobs by factoring people back into the water supply equation. I look forward to his leadership in advancing these policies in the 112th Congress.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Water and Power Subcommittee can shape policy that is of critical importance to the people of the 4th Congressional District,\u201d McClintock said. \u201cBy returning to time-tested priorities of water storage, flood protection and hydroelectric generation we can strengthen our economy, create conditions for permanent and productive jobs and protect the environment. Restoring these policies will be a major focus of the subcommittee.\u201d\n\nAbout the House Water and Power Subcommittee\n\nAs the authorizing Subcommittee for the Bureau of Reclamation and the federal power marketing administrations, the Subcommittee on Water and Power is involved in all aspects of shaping federal policies for water and power resources management. Jurisdiction includes Bureau of Reclamation multi-purpose dams, which provide irrigated waters, hydropower, flood control, recreation and fish and wildlife benefits.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:52Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-appointed-to-house-budget-and-natural-resources", "Congressman Tom McClintock Appointed to House Budget and Natural Resources Committees", "2010-12-16", "2010", "2010-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Tom McClintock, CA-04, has been appointed to serve on the House Budget Committee and the Natural Resources Committee for the upcoming 112th Congress.\n\nMcClintock will begin his second term on the Natural Resources Committee where he served as ranking member of the Water and Power sub-committee during the 111th Congress. \u201cThe Natural Resources Committee is absolutely vital to the economy of the 4th Congressional District, and I am delighted to have been re-appointed,\u201d McClintock said. During the last session, McClintock was an outspoken advocate of restoring abundance of water and power as a central objective of federal policy and vowed to continue that work in the upcoming session.\n\nIn addition, McClintock will leave the House Education and Labor Committee to take on new responsibilities on the Budget Committee, which will play a prominent role under Chairman Paul Ryan in bringing federal spending under control. McClintock was a prominent voice for many years in the California legislature warning that the state was on an unsustainable fiscal path. During those years he introduced hundreds of specific budget reforms, including tax, spending and borrowing limitations; contracting out of state services; pension, welfare and education reform and bureaucratic streamlining.\n\n\u201cI am deeply gratified by this appointment,\u201d McClintock said. \u201cThe nation\u2019s fiscal crisis is one of the most serious threats our government has ever faced, and the opportunity to assist in setting things right is truly the most exciting assignment I have ever had.\u201d\n\nAbout the House Budget Committee\n\nAs the first panel to examine the President\u2019s annual budget message, the Budget Committee\u2019s chief responsibility is to draft a concurrent resolution that reconciles spending details with the overall comprehensive budget package. The committee is required to draft a budget resolution, agreed to by April 15 of each year, which establishes total targets in five budget areas: authority; outlays; revenues; surplus or deficit; and public debt. The resolution also sets budget authority and outlay targets for each of the 21 spending categories. Finally, the committee prepares guidelines in the annual budget resolution for cutting programs to meet spending targets.\n\nAbout the House Natural Resources Committee", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:52Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-tom-mcclintock-announces-three-merit-based-awards", "Representative Tom McClintock Announces Three Merit-Based Awards", "2010-10-01", "2010", "2010-10", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Congressman Tom McClintock announced that Community Recovery Resources, Inc.\u2013 a substance abuse and mental health services agency in Grass Valley, the City of Alturas Police Department and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians have been awarded competitive grants through the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Community Facilities Program.\n\n\u201cThese projects were selected for funding on the basis of merit through a competitive process,\u201d McClintock said. \u201cI am pleased that hard work and dedication of the recipients resulted in these awards.\u201d\n\n-30-\n\nThe Awards\n\nCenter for Hope\n\nA $9,317,000 loan to Community Recovery Resources, Inc. of Grass Valley will be used to build the Center for Hope in order to provide care for families and individuals fighting addictions and struggling with mental health issues.\n\nTribal Health Program\n\nA $13,600,000 loan to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians will be used to construct a facility to expand medical services in the county and the surrounding area. The Shingle Springs Tribal Health Program is one of three facilities in the El Dorado County area that accept Medi-Cal patients.\n\nAlturas Police\n\nThe City of Alturas Police Department will receive a $38,210 grant to purchase an electronic records management system.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:47Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/wastewater-forum-opening-statement-by-representative-tom-mcclintock", "Wastewater Forum, Opening Statement by Representative Tom McClintock", "2010-09-27", "2010", "2010-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Auburn, California. September 27, 2010. Thank you all for coming today. The purpose of today\u2019s hearing is to air this community\u2019s concerns over regulatory and litigatory excesses that are imposing increasingly oppressive costs on our families and businesses for the operation of local water and sewer systems.\n\nColfax has been a flashpoint for this revolt \u2013 its residents are being eaten alive by litigation filed by predatory law firms who party while residents pay. But as we will hear, Colfax is hardly alone \u2013 small communities across Northern California face the same outrages \u2013 and are now demanding relief.\n\nLike all movements, the impetus for stronger environmental protection of our air and water was firmly rooted in legitimate concerns to protect these vital resources. But like many movements, as it succeeded in its legitimate ends, it also attracted a self-interested constituency that has driven far past the borders of commonsense and into the realms of political extremism and outright plunder.\n\nWe\u2019ll hear today of requirements that water be purified to ridiculous standards having nothing to do with public health or safety and with absolutely no concern for prohibitive costs. We\u2019ll hear of communities that meet every expensive requirement heaped on them by state and federal agencies only to be told at the end of the process, \u201cSorry, the rules have changed and you\u2019ll need to start over.\u201d We\u2019ll hear of lawsuits filed over technicalities that reap unconscionable windfalls for the lawyers \u2013 all paid by struggling families in our communities.\n\nIt is time that pendulum moved back to the middle, and the purpose of today\u2019s proceedings is to define what reforms are necessary to restore common sense and rationality to these laws at both the state and national levels.\n\nI am very honored to be joined by my neighboring colleague, a senior member of the House of Representatives, Congressman Wally Herger. Wally has been a leader in fighting to restore balance to our environmental laws and I\u2019m very grateful to him for making the trip to Auburn today.\n\nI am also honored to have with us Senator Sam Aanestad, representing the 4th State Senate District of California. He is leaving after a truly distinguished legislative career due to term limits, and it is a testament to his dedication to this district that he remains at his post actively engaged in these issues.\n\nFinally, one of the great forces in the State Assembly, Assemblyman Dan Logue, joins us today. Californians could not possibly have a more fearless or energetic defender against an over-reaching bureaucracy than Dan Logue and I am very glad to have him here today as well.\n\nWe have assembled two panels of experts. The first panel is comprised of representatives of our local communities that have struggled with this situation until it has become intolerable. This hearing is actually the direct result of a meeting I had in my district office with local officials whose story I believed our region needs to hear.\n\nThe second panel is comprised of representatives from the Federal EPA and the State Water Resources Control Board that administer the current law and write the regulations under that law.\n\nAfter each panel\u2019s initial testimony, there will be up to five minutes of questioning by each of us on the dais.\n\nFinally, we will open the proceeding to public comments.\n\nSince we have many to speak and much to say, I will do my best to rigorously maintain time limits of five minutes for each testimony, five minutes for each round of questions and three minutes each for public comments.\n\nIt is my hope that at the end of this hearing, we will have accomplished two things: First, we will have established a clear view of the problem; and second, that we will have produced a list of concrete and specific legislative reforms that can be introduced in the upcoming legislative and Congressional sessions to bring these excesses and abuses under control.\n\nWe will be recording the hearing and submit it into official congressional proceedings at the earliest opportunity in the 112th Congress.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:43Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-mcclintock-announces-5-million-loan-to-georgetown-divide", "Representative McClintock Announces $5 Million Loan to Georgetown Divide Public Utility District to Meet Wastewater Treatment Standards", "2010-09-24", "2010", "2010-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Congressman Tom McClintock announced today that the Georgetown Divide Public Utility District will receive a $5 million loan in Rural Development Funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to refurbish its Auburn Lake Trails Water Treatment Plant.\n\nThe specific improvements include advanced water treatment technology options (filtration system replacement) and modifications to the existing facility.\n\nAlthough there have been no known or suspected risk of microbial contamination due to the current treatment process and operation of the facility, the District is still responsible to comply with state and federal directives to use best available treatment technologies and mandated operating standards at the Auburn Lake Trails Water Treatment Plant.\n\n\u201cWe need to reduce the regulatory burden that imposes ruinous costs on local communities,\u201d said Representative McClintock. \u201cIn the mean time, I am gratified that Georgetown Divide Public Utility District was able to obtain a merit-based loan to bring its facilities into compliance. It was a pleasure to work with them through this process.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:43Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representatives-tom-mcclintock-and-wally-herger-to-host-forum-on-wastewater", "Representatives Tom McClintock and Wally Herger to Host Forum on Wastewater Management - Fines, Fees and Litigation to be Discussed at Forum", "2010-09-24", "2010", "2010-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Representatives Tom McClintock and Wally Herger will conduct a forum to discuss the adverse impact of excess wastewater regulation in terms of fines, fees, litigation and resulting financial harm to local communities.\n\nIt is the responsibility of Congress to resolve these issues, and the first step is to hear from those impacted by the underlying regulatory burdens.\n\nRepresentatives from federal and California state regulatory agencies (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board), as well as Assemblyman Dan Logue and State Senator Sam Aanestad have confirmed their participation.\n\nForum to be held:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:43Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-water-and-power-subcommittee-hearing-on-hr-3061-salazar-hr-5039", "House Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing on H.R. 3061 (Salazar), H.R. 5039 (Sanchez), H.R. 5413 (Baca), H.R. 6107 (Hastings)", "2010-09-16", "2010", "2010-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Opening Statement by the Honorable Tom McClintock, Ranking Republican, House Water and Power Subcommittee before the House Water and Power Subcommittee Legislative Hearing on H.R. 3061 (Salazar), H.R. 5039 (Sanchez), H.R. 5413 (Baca), H.R. 6107 (Hastings)\n\nTwo glaring problems plague the Democrats\u2019 water and power policy. The first I have talked about on past occasions: that long ago they seem to have abandoned \u201cabundance\u201d as our central objective and replaced it with the rationing of shortages. In fact, we have vast water and hydropower resources that we have simply chosen to abandon.\n\nI have raised a second major deficiency on many other occasions and raise it again today: the majority\u2019s abandonment of any attempt at rational cost-benefit analysis or sound financial principles.\n\nThe development of federal water and power projects was once clear and simple. Potential sources were identified through a forthright cost-benefit analysis. Once identified, the most cost-effective projects necessary to meet demand were then constructed by joint powers authorities established for that purpose. The federal government loaned the projects the funds necessary for construction, and these loans were then repaid by users through their water and power purchases. The communities and consumers that benefited from these projects entirely paid for them and taxpayers were held harmless. This process resulted in cheap and abundant water and power and in turn, unprecedented prosperity throughout the arid West.\n\nOne of the bills today seeks to restore this principle, HR 6107 by the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee, Mr. Hastings of Washington. It is unfortunate that the Administration has refused to testify on this bill today.\n\nThe Western Area Power Administration markets and delivers around 10,000 megawatts of hydroelectricity produced at federal dams and paid for entirely by the users. But now, its administrator has expanded its mission to integrate wind and solar power. Since wind and solar power are entirely unreliable, they require a highly complex transmission system and a kilowatt-for-kilowatt backup system to maintain the electrical grid. These systems are extremely expensive and could not possibly survive a rational cost-benefit analysis.\n\nTo make matters worse, WAPA was granted new borrowing authority and stimulus funding that imposes enormous additional potential costs both on taxpayers and ratepayers who receive no additional benefit. The borrowing authority even provides for forgiveness of the loans to companies that cannot repay them \u2013 forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to bail out fiscally irresponsible projects.\n\nHR 6107 attempts to restore accountability to the financing of this system by striking the bail-out provisions of current law and requiring that beneficiaries alone bear the cost of these projects \u2013 protecting both existing customers and taxpayers from being milked dry by these mandates and mission creep.\n\nTwo bills utterly ignore cost-benefit concerns and continue to squander our resources.\n\nHR 3061 requires taxpayers to pay $4 million to study repairs on the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project \u2013 yet before that study is even begun, it authorizes a staggering $60 million to make those repairs. This is a prime example of abandoning any rational cost-benefit analysis and simply shoveling money at a problem that hasn\u2019t even been defined.\n\nHR 5039 requires general taxpayers to underwrite and subsidize expansion of the Groundwater Replenishment System in Orange County, California. Once again, we see the majority abandon the principle that beneficiaries pay for water systems, and instead end up plundering one community for the support of another.\n\nFinally, we have HR 5413 to settle legal claims by the Pechanga Indians for water rights and development funding under the Winters Doctrine. I fully support this doctrine that assures Indian reservations legal access to water, but I also believe that we have a fiduciary responsibility in deciding legal settlements to do so within the parameters of the Federal government\u2019s actual legal obligations.\n\nThat means the affected parties and the Department of Justice negotiate a settlement to the satisfaction of both sides. If both sides cannot reach agreement, the matter should be left to the courts. If both sides can reach an agreement, then it should be presented to Congress for ratification.\n\nThis bill doesn\u2019t do that. Instead, it ratifies a settlement before it has been agreed to by all parties. A board of directors acting in this manner would be guilty of malfeasance for breaching its fiduciary responsibility.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:43Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-announces-4-million-in-competitive-grants-to", "Congressman Tom McClintock Announces $4 Million In Competitive Grants to Boost Development of Geothermal Technologies", "2010-09-15", "2010", "2010-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Congressman Tom McClintock today announced the award of $4 million in competitive grants to a pair of recipients in the Fourth Congressional District to research, develop and demonstrate cutting-edge geothermal technologies. The Congressional office worked with the Modoc Contracting Company of Canby to win a $2 million Department of Energy award that will help demonstrate the use of cascading technology in tapping the energy potential of geothermal fluids. The Oski Energy firm of Susanville also received a $2 million award to test innovative power cycle technology.\n\n\u201cThese awards were made based on the merits of the projects,\u201d Congressman McClintock said. \u201cSeven grants were awarded nationwide based on the strength and value of the proposals. The fact that two of the awards are to companies in our resource-rich region yet again illustrates that worthwhile projects can successfully obtain funding through the regular merit-based appropriations process.\u201d\n\n###\n\nThe following projects have been selected for an award:\n\n\u2022 Modoc Contracting Company \u2013 Canby, Modoc County, Calif. - $2 million:\n\nModoc proposes to create a complete \u201ccascaded\u201d use of a geothermal resource (from low temperature power generation through several direct-use applications including a direct heating system, greenhouse operation and fish farm) that will demonstrate energy-efficient use of the geothermal fluids. The company will procure, install and commission an engineered, scalable and duplicable generator unit to use the waste heat from an existing geothermal plant. The \u201ccascading\u201d application will have significant implications for the nearly 1,500 potential low to moderate temperature well sites located within towns and medium-sized cities in the western United States.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:43Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-announces-drug-free-communities-support-program", "Congressman Tom McClintock Announces Drug Free Communities Support Program Awards", "2010-08-31", "2010", "2010-08", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Congressman Tom McClintock today announced that five communities in the 4th Congressional District succeeded in qualifying for Drug Free Communities (DFC) grants. The DFC supports over 700 community coalitions across the United States and provides funding to identify and respond to local substance abuse problems.\n\n\"The applicants in our district won these grants the old fashioned way: they earned them on their merits,\u201d said Congressman McClintock.\n\n\"I believe that their success underscores the fact that meritorious programs do not need Congressional earmarks \u2013 meritorious programs do quite well in an open and competitive environment. The fact that 4th District programs are so strongly represented in this program speaks volumes about the importance of merit-based evaluations as opposed to muscle-based earmarks,\u201d McClintock said. I am delighted that so many from our district have succeeded.\u201d\n\nNew Grant Award\n\nThe Vision Coalition of El Dorado Hills was awarded $125,000 to reduce substance abuse in El Dorado County. The group will implement marketing programs, direct community outreach and mentoring programs to reach at-risk young people.\n\nContinuing Grant Awards\n\nPlacer County Health and Human Services Department: $125,000\n\nBlack Oak Mine Unified School District, Georgetown: $125,000\n\nButte County Mental Health Services: $100,000\n\nCommunity Recovery Resources, Inc., Grass Valley: $100,000", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:40Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-at-the-regional-us-forest-service-management-roundtable", "Statement at the Regional U.S. Forest Service Management Roundtable", "2010-08-25", "2010", "2010-08", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Congressman Tom McClintock made the following statement to the Regional U.S. Forest Service Management Roundtable hosted by Congressman Wally Herger in Sacramento on Wednesday, August 25th:\n\nI want to thank my friend and colleague, Congressman Herger, for organizing this meeting and for his invitation to participate in it.\n\nThere are four general subjects that my constituents have brought to my attention that I feel are important to raise in this forum.\n\nFirst, some of the most disturbing stories I have heard locally involve the abuse of cost recovery fees by the Forest Service. This has been a source of great frustration and evinces an attitude within the Service that I believe requires immediate correction.\n\nFor example, the California Endurance Riders Association had been using the El Dorado National Forest for many years. This time, when they sought a simple 5-year 10-event permit to continue doing exactly what they have been doing without incident for decades, the Forest Service demanded $11,000 in fees.\n\nThey paid these fees, but the El Dorado National Forest management nevertheless pulled the approved permit and halted the process on utterly specious grounds. It then demanded an additional $17,000 fee, causing the Endurance Riders Association to cancel what had been a long-term civic tradition that had been a boon to the local economy. In 2010 this outrage was repeated after the group spent $5,800 for the \u201cFool\u2019s Gold Endurance Run\u201d that had been an ongoing event for more than 40 years.\n\nThe Polka Dots Motorcycle Club tells a similar story of excessive Forest Service fees that forced them to cancel a ride they have sponsored for four decades. Likewise, the Gold Country Endurance Riders, an equestrian group, had to cancel an event they had been holding since 1993 because of a prohibitive increase in the permit fees.\n\nI seriously question the authority of the Forest Service to exact these fees at all, since federal guidelines do not require them if the surveys or research are done in the \u201cpublic good.\u201d Moreover, it is clear the Forest Service was not dealing in good faith with these groups and that it should refund these fees in full and restore to them the full access to our public lands that they have been accorded for many years.\n\nSecond, the Forest Service is charging exorbitant Cabin User Fees to families that have had long-term possession of mountain cabins, based on peak market prices from 2007 and 2008. These inflated prices are many times the actual market price in this distressed economy, forcing many of these families to abandon cabins that they have had for decades and even generations.\n\nThird, my office has been approached by several families that have had long-established grazing permits dating as far back as 1931, who are now seeing conditions placed on their use that are simply ludicrous.\n\nFor example, the Leavell Family has grazed cattle in the Tahoe National Forrest since 1931 and by all accounts has been an excellent and responsible steward of the land. The incidents of harassment that they have encountered from the Forest Service have been unconscionable.\n\nWith absolutely no warning, the Forest Service presented them with a letter declaring that they were in non-compliance because of cattle that occasionally stray off the land. Yet in the past, federal regulations have prohibited them from building fences to prevent that very problem. The Forest Service recently charged that the cattle were damaging Aspen stands \u2013 allegations that further inspection proved to be groundless. Having failed to make its case on these grounds, the Forest Service then ordered the Leavells to remove cabins they have maintained and paid property taxes on for 79 years.\n\nAlso without warning, the Forest Service told the Coughlin family that it was cancelling their long-standing grazing permit because of a lack of sufficient feed as determined by a Forest Service biologist. A subsequent field trip utterly disproved the biologist\u2019s opinion \u2013 so the Forest Service next informed them that their permit is still in jeopardy because of the same wandering cows that it used as pretense in the Leavell\u2019s case.\n\nFinally \u2013 and most importantly, since this affects the safety of entire communities in my district \u2013 I remain concerned over the demonstrated disinterest that the Forest Service has recently demonstrated in supporting sustainable timber harvests. The expensive and labor-intensive process of twig removal cannot achieve fuel reductions that reduce the risk and intensity of forest fires. We must restore responsible and sustainable thinning of over populated forests called for in the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Restoration Act of 1998, and which the U.S. Forest Service is now thwarting in our region.\n\nFor generations, the U.S. Forest Service maintained a balanced approach to the management of our forests that assured both healthy forests and a healthy economy. Now, it seems to be following a very different policy of exclusion, expulsion and benign neglect of our forests.\n\nMy office has brought these concerns and complaints of arbitrary and capricious conduct to the Forest Service\u2019s attention without a satisfactory resolution.\n\nPracticed in the marketplace, we would renounce these tactics as predatory and abusive. In the public service sector, they are intolerable.\n\nCombined, these actions evince an ideologically driven hostility to the public\u2019s use of the public\u2019s land \u2013 and a clear intention to deny the public the responsible and sustainable use of that land.\n\nIf the Forest Service fails to reverse these policies \u2013 and the attitude that has produced them \u2013 I intend to use my position on the National Parks, Forests and Public Lands subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee to press for extensive hearings during the next session of Congress into the economic damage these actions have caused.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:40Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-on-californias-proposition-8-ruling", "Statement on California's Proposition 8 Ruling", "2010-08-04", "2010", "2010-08", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Statement by Representative Tom McClintock on the Proposition 8 Ruling: Judge Walker\u2019s opinion that traditional marriage is an affront to the Bill of Rights would no doubt have come as a surprise to the American Founders \u2013 and to more than two centuries of American jurisprudence affirming that institution. Fortunately, the architects of our Constitution recognized the damage that feeble reasoning can do from the bench and provided a multitude of checks and balances \u2013 starting with the appellate process \u2013 which I am confident will now be brought into play.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:40Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hydropower-hearing-natural-resources-water-and-power-subcommittee-opening", "Hydropower Hearing, Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee, Opening Statement by Representative Tom McClintock", "2010-07-29", "2010", "2010-07", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Tom McClintock (CA \u2013 04), Ranking Member of the House Water and Power Subcommittee, today made the following opening statement at a hearing about low-impact hydropower:\n\n\u201cI applaud this hearing on expanding small hydropower development to augment our hydroelectric capacity. We will hear testimony today on the bureaucratic obstacles that federal agencies have placed in the way of the placement and construction of these hydro-electric generators, and I believe that Congress must make a concerted effort to identify and remove these obstacles that discourage development and drive up the price of electricity for consumers.\n\n\u201cI am concerned, however, with an attempt to use the promise of small hydroelectricity projects as an excuse to delay, impede -- and among certain extremist groups, to destroy -- existing large-scale hydroelectric facilities.\n\n\u201cOne of the lamentable tendencies I have noticed in this Congress is to heavily subsidize those forms of water and power generation that are ideologically pleasing to the environmental Left while obstructing or even dismantling water and power generation frowned upon by the same extremist groups.\n\n\u201cAt these hearings, I have often reflected on the cornucopia of water and power that the federal government made possible when it maintained \u201cabundance\u201d as its central objective. The legendary multi-purpose dams and reservoirs of the last generation turned deserts into farmlands, created vast new recreational areas, tamed the environmentally devastating cycle of floods and droughts, and produced clean and abundant hydropower that provided a foundation for unprecedented prosperity throughout the western United States. As the legendary Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Floyd Dominy, once pointed out, a \u201cColorado River without dams is useless to anyone.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe must also beware of squandering our vast hydroelectric capacity by subordinating it to staggeringly more expensive and unreliable energy systems that the government is currently promoting. We will hear of the significant costs that are being incurred to supplement wind\u2019s notoriously unreliable nature. And we must also beware of unreasonable environmental requirements that are being imposed without any concern for costs or benefits.\n\n\u201cFor example, a concerted effort is being undertaken by this administration to destroy four hydro-electric dams on the Klamath River in the name of restoring salmon populations. This effort is estimated to cost well over a half-billion dollars and will require consumers to purchase much more expensive replacement power for 155 megawatts of generating capacity \u2013 enough for over 150,000 homes.\n\n\u201cOne group that was invited by the majority to testify today has called this insanity a \u201cmodel\u201d for their next objective, the destruction of the four lower Snake River Dams.\n\n\u2018The justification we hear is declining salmon populations. I asked why someone didn\u2019t just build a fish hatchery. I was informed there was a major fish hatchery just below the dams called Iron Gate that produces over 5 million Chinook smolts each year that results in over 17,000 adults returning to spawn. But this abundant population is simply ignored in the salmon count.\n\n\u201cThis is utter lunacy.\n\n\u201cOn both large scale and small scale hydroelectric projects, we absolutely must restore some modicum of rationality and commonsense to our public policy.\n\n\u201cWe cannot continue to ignore our ability to restore endangered species populations through aquaculture, hydroponics and husbandry at a fraction of the cost, and on a vastly greater scale, than those measures now being imposed by current laws.\n\n\u201cWe cannot continue to allow endless litigation and regulation to inflate the price of water and power to the point that it is breaking our economy.\n\n\u201cWe cannot continue to indulge political ideologies while ignoring simple cost-benefit analyses in evaluating energy technologies and regulatory frameworks.\n\n\u201cWe cannot continue to impose increasingly Draconian rationing schemes on our besieged economy while ignoring our ability and our responsibility to produce a new era of abundance and plenty from our nation\u2019s vast and renewable natural resources.\n\n\u201cI applaud low-impact hydro-electricity where it offers cost-effective generating capacity and I believe we must identify bureaucratic impediments that are discouraging its use or inflating its costs.\n\n\u201cBut this should not be used as an excuse to impose additional impediments or costs on our large-scale hydroelectricity.\n\n\u201cIn short, we need to return to the time-tested policies that produced the era of abundant water and power that this generation has foolishly abandoned in favor of staggering costs, chronic shortages and bureaucratic rationing. I certainly hope that we do so before we completely wreck our economy.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:35Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-water-and-power-subcommittee-hearing-on-the-bureau-of-reclamation-and", "House Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing on the Bureau of Reclamation and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act", "2010-07-15", "2010", "2010-07", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Representative Tom McClintock (R - CA) made the following opening statement at the House Water and Power Subcommittee hearing on the Bureau of Reclamation and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Testifying at the hearing was the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Michael Connor.\n\nOpening Statement\n\nWater and Power Sub-Committee\n\nJuly 15, 2010\n\nWhen the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law in February of 2009 \u2013 with the stated purpose of reducing unemployment -- the unemployment rate stood at 8.2 percent. Seventeen months and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the unemployment rate has grown to 9.5 percent. It would be even higher except for the millions of unemployed who have simply dropped out of the labor force and are no longer counted.\n\nThe Commissioner will note that by spending nearly a billion dollars, his Bureau has created over 10,000 jobs. What he doesn\u2019t note is how many jobs were lost because that billion dollars had first to be removed from the economy before his bureau could put it back into the economy.\n\nThis is the fundamental failing of the Administration\u2019s stimulus spending. Government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy that it has not first taken out of the same economy. It is true that if I take a dollar from Peter and give it to Paul \u2013 or in this case, Mike \u2013 Mike has an extra dollar to spend and he\u2019ll come here and tell us all the good he did with it. But what is completely ignored is that Peter now has one less dollar to spend in that very same economy. Mike has a billion dollars more, but the taxpayers now have a billion dollars less. On paper, this strategy nets to zero. In practice, it nets to much less than zero, because we have transferred huge amounts of capital from investments that would have been made on economic considerations to investments that are being made on political considerations, as we are about to hear.\n\nThe fact is that the best way to stimulate the economy is to get the government out of the business of creating shortages. For more than a year, this committee sat idly while the Central Valley of California was economically devastated by the willful diversion of over 200 billion gallons of water for the amusement of the Delta Smelt. This year, despite precipitation 160 percent of normal, the Central Valley is receiving only 45 percent of its water allotments. A similar story is told across the country.\n\nBut most tragic is the fact that this Administration, through the Bureau of Reclamation, is spending $11 million of stimulus money in an effort to willfully destroy four perfectly good hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River that generate 155 megawatts of the cheapest and cleanest electricity that our technology can produce.\n\nAt a time when Californians pay the highest electricity prices in the continental United States; at a time when Californians\u2019 per capita electricity usage is not only the lowest in the nation but is lower that Guam, Aruba and Luxemburg; at a time when we can\u2019t guarantee enough electricity to keep people\u2019s air conditioners running this summer, the Bureau of Reclamation is using stimulus money on a conclusion driven process to tear down four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath that generate the cheapest and cleanest electricity within our power to produce \u2013 enough electricity for more than 150,000 households \u2013 with no plans to replace that power.\n\nThis is insane. And it is doing enormous harm to our economy.\n\nAnd it invites the question of what other extraordinarily poor judgment is being used in spending these funds. For that reason, I am sending an official request today that asks the Bureau of Reclamation to disclose all of its grants over the past five years. My staff has found examples from the past where the agency helped fund the World Fisheries Congress meeting in Athens, Greece and directed grants to environmental organizations that in turn sue our government. At a time when family budgets have been cut to the bone to finance this unprecedented spending, the American people deserve to know where their money is going.\n\nUnder this administration and this Congress, the Bureau of Reclamation has become the Bureau of Water Shortage and Dam Destruction. And that\u2019s a shame.\n\nWe have it within our ability to produce clean, cheap and abundant water and power from our nation\u2019s vast resources and by so doing to restore the foundation of prosperity for our nation. All that is required is a fundamental change in the policies of this government and the political will to do so.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:35Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mcclintock-recruits-house-members-to-become-party-to-washington-legal", "McClintock Recruits House Members to Become Party to Washington Legal Foundation's Amicus Brief in Support of the Arizona Immigration Law", "2010-07-15", "2010", "2010-07", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) has recruited 17 members of the House of Representatives to become party to an amicus brief in support of Arizona\u2019s new immigration law. The brief has been filed by the Washington Legal Foundation in support of Arizona in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU.\n\nThe Washington Legal Foundation\u2019s amicus brief argues that the Arizona immigration law does not preempt the federal government\u2019s exclusive authority to regulate immigration. In May the ACLU filed suit to enjoin the Arizona immigration law on the grounds that it unconstitutionally encroaches on the federal government\u2019s exclusive authority to regulate immigration. The brief argues that Arizona does not seek to control admissions, removals or conditions upon which legal status may granted. Instead, it points out that Arizona simply seeks to assist in enforcing existing federal law.\n\n\u201cArizona has not adopted a new immigration law,\u201d said Congressman McClintock. \u201cAll it has done is to enforce existing law. America\u2019s immigration law is not designed to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans. Our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation. That is the broad meaning of our nation\u2019s motto, \u201cE Pluribus Unum\u201d \u2013 from many people, one people, the American people.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:35Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-on-amendment-to-hr-3534-house-natural-resources-committee", "Statement on Amendment to HR 3534, House Natural Resources Committee", "2010-07-14", "2010", "2010-07", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON D.C. \u2013 During a full committee markup of the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) in the Natural Resources Committee Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) introduced an amendment to strike section 238 of the legislation.\n\nRepresentative McClintock\u2019s Statement on the Amendment to HR 3534 is attached below:\n\nStatement on Amendment to HR 3534\n\nHouse Natural Resources Committee\n\nJuly 14, 2010\n\nMr. Chairman:\n\nMy amendment would strike Section 238 of the bill. Specifically, it stops the attempt to use this bill to piggy-back an unrelated measure, HR 2807, America\u2019s Wildlife Heritage Act. That act was going nowhere in its own right, but apparently is trying to hitch a ride on a bill purporting to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf.\n\nDespite the fact that America\u2019s Wildlife Heritage Act was proposed more than 13 months ago, neither the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife nor the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands have held a hearing on this measure. More recently, the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs conducted three comprehensive oversight hearings on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accident. They obtained the views of nearly 30 witnesses. Not a word was spoken concerning this measure.\n\nAnd yet, magically this forgotten bill that was going nowhere suddenly appears as section 238 of this bill. This is exactly the kind of abuse of process by this Congress that the American people are growing increasingly disgusted with.\n\nThis section does not stop the oil leak in the Gulf, it does not clean up the oil in the Gulf, it does not address the needs of Gulf state communities, and it does not hold BP accountable for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Rather, the majority is attempting to use that disaster as an excuse for enacting a Christmas-tree full of unrelated bills that can\u2019t stand on their own merit and wouldn\u2019t withstand scrutiny if taken up in their own right. The sponsor tacitly admits this by sneaking his bill into this one.\n\nWhy is the majority trying to avoid scrutiny?\n\nPerhaps it is because it is unclear how much these provisions will cost and what, if any, benefits will be derived.\n\nFor example, this measure protects so-called \u201cDesired non-native species.\u201d I would expect the sports fishermen in California will argue that the Striped Bass is a desired non-native species, given the popularity and economic impact of the industry in California and many other states around the country. However, the striped bass has devastated the populations of several native species that are now listed on the Endangered Species Act, including the notorious Delta smelt.\n\nThe measure also conflicts with the Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act \u2013 because it limits the Forest Service\u2019s ability to give \u201cdue consideration\u201d to resource values other than species conservation. And by doing so, it removes cost-benefit consideration \u2013 including economic impact \u2013 read, JOBS \u2013 from decision making.\n\nIt sets up standards that are contrary to established science on the subject. For example, it requires sustainable populations at the planning unit level \u2013 which is frequently a biologically inappropriate scale for a wide-ranging species.\n\nSimply stated, this ill-considered section places federal law in conflict with itself \u2013 because we are using a single crisis \u2013 the Gulf oil spill \u2013 to enact unrelated legislation without hearings, without serious consideration and without due process.\n\nThe Gulf oil spill has done immense economic damage to the Gulf region. Why would we want to compound that damage by enacting a measure that ignores any cost-benefit issues and can only result in locking up vast additional natural resources that could be providing jobs for our people, revenues for our government and prosperity for our economy?\n\nMr. Chairman, the majority is either serious about addressing the Gulf oil spill, or it is not. If it is serious, then it should report out a bill singularly focused on this issue that would command broad, bi-partisan support. If it is NOT serious about addressing the Gulf oil spill, it should reject my amendment and continue down the road it is on. But I warn you, that road may lead you to a place you won\u2019t like.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:35Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-tom-mcclintock-independence-day-events", "Representative Tom McClintock Independence Day Events", "2010-06-30", "2010", "2010-06", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Sunday, July 4, 2010\n\n9:00 AM\n\nLincoln Independence Day Parade\n\n5th and F Street, Lincoln\n\nNoon\n\nPollock Pines 4th of July Parade\n\nSly Park Road and Pony Express Trail, Pollock Pines\n\n2:00 PM\n\nNevada City Parade\n\nHistoric Downtown Nevada City", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:33Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-water-and-power-subcommittee-hearing-on-hr-4719-and-hr-5487", "House Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing on H.R. 4719 and H.R. 5487 Representative Tom McClintock Opening Statement June 17, 2010", "2010-06-17", "2010", "2010-06", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "June 17, 2010\n\nWashington, DC \u2013 Representative Tom McClintock (R \u2013 Granite Bay) delivered the following opening remarks today at the Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing. The hearing was held to discuss H.R. 4719 and H.R. 5487. Included is a discussion of water in the Southwest border region of the United States and water research.\n\nOpening Statement by Water and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Tom McClintock:\n\n\u201cToday we\u2019re hearing two bills that both invite the question: what is Congress thinking?\n\n\u201cThe first bill is HR 5487 that continues to throw millions of dollars \u2013 90 millions of dollars, to be precise -- at 54 Water Resource Research Institutes that have been spending money since the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 was adopted.\n\n\u201cBefore we throw more taxpayer money at them \u2013 bearing in mind that we don\u2019t have that money to begin with \u2013 we have to borrow it \u2013 we wanted to take a look at what we\u2019ve gotten.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019ve studied raising water rates and arrived at the stunning and groundbreaking discovery that if the price goes up, people use less. One conducted a blind \u201ctaste test\u201d of water in the District of Columbia. They discovered it tasted a lot like water. In Kentucky, they used this money to study salamander reproductive potency. Presumably they discovered that salamanders, left to their own devices, tend to make more salamanders.\n\n\u201cTo those who may argue not all of that was federal money, I would remind them of McClintock\u2019s Fifth Law of Political Physics, that all funds are fungible and all of these institutes were receiving this money.\n\n\u201cIf this isn\u2019t enough to raise some eyebrows, I must move on to note that the bill moves these institutes farther from their purported mission: to produce more water resources \u2013 to what it euphemistically calls \u201cnon-structural\u201d measures. Translated from bureaucratese, that means the development of more wetlands \u2013 a previous generation called them swamps \u2013 and associated farmland retirement at a time when we need more food production not less.\n\n\u201cMany of us on the minority side believe that this Congress has already done enough to make farmers an endangered species; I ask why we need to use federal dollars to hunt farmers to the brink of extinction.\n\n\u201cNext, I should note that this program requires matching state dollars. Before we reauthorize it, I would like to find out why this requirement has not been enforced. Available USGS information suggests that several of these institutes have failed to follow matching requirements, and have in effect, taken the money and run.\n\n\u201cWhich all would suggest the need for more oversight and not less. Under current law, the USGS is required to submit a program report to Congress over how this program has spent our money every three years. The USGS has yet to submit that report. And yet, it is proposed not only that we further fund it without knowing how this money has been spent \u2013 the bill also reduces oversight further by subjecting the spending to review only once every five years. So instead of not getting a report every three years under this bill we won\u2019t get a report every five years.\n\n\u201cMoving along\u2026\n\n\u201cThe other bill raises one question regarding water supplies along the Mexican border while ignoring a more important one. I refer to HR 4719 that seeks to create a permanent governmental entity aimed at providing more funding and water to the border region, although $1.4 billion federal dollars have already been spent for this purpose from 2000 to 2008.\n\n\u201cWe will hear testimony later today which questions why this bill is not focused instead on protecting the infrastructure that currently provides water. We will hear that the Rio Grande River has become \u201cnotorious for illegal crossings of persons and drugs\u201d and of a recently thwarted plot by the Zeta Drug Cartel to blow up the Falcon Dam.\n\n\u201cWe have a picture of drug smugglers swimming across the Rio Grande that puts the issue in perspective. The open nature of the border has serious consequences not only on our water supplies but this nation as a whole. This Congress needs to step up and secure our borders to stop the violence and protect our infrastructure and I hope that the focus of this bill can be altered to perform the core purpose of this national government: to protect the integrity of its own borders.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:33Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/constituent-survey", "Constituent Survey", "2010-06-10", "2010", "2010-06", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "June 10, 2010\n\nClick to view survey results\n\nImage\n\nIssues:Local Issues", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:33Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-announces-fourth-congressional-district-art", "Congressman Tom McClintock Announces Fourth Congressional District Art Competition Winners", "2010-05-19", "2010", "2010-05", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Three outstanding art students garnered awards in the Congressional Art Competition -- An Artistic Discovery -- a nation-wide high school art competition sponsored by Members of Congress. The contest was open to all high school students within the Fourth Congressional District. The winners are:\n\n1st Place Winner:\n\nAimee Pitcher\n\nSouth Tahoe High School\n\nArt Teacher: Candi Lincoln\n\nTitle of Entry: \u201cSapphire\u201d\n\nAimee\u2019s winning piece, \u201cSapphire\u201d was created using Adobe Photoshop. It is a stylized depiction of a girl circa 1912. The piece will hang in the Cannon Tunnel along with the other first place winners from across the nation. Aimee also won two round trip airline tickets to Washington D.C. to attend the official Congressional Art Reception\n\n2nd Place Winner:\n\nCarrie Etherington\n\nWoodcreek High School\n\nArt Teacher: Dave Branstetter\n\nTitle of Entry: \u201cLiberty and Justice For All\u201d\n\n3rd Place Winner:\n\nYia Yang\n\nOroville High School\n\nArt Teacher: David Tamari\n\nTitle of Entry: \u201cMask Woman\u201d\n\nThe judging for California\u2019s Fourth Congressional District was held was under the direction of Placer Arts Council executives Angela Tahti and Shawn Baldwin. Judges were Auburn City Councilman Kevin Hanley, Deb Jensen of El Dorado Arts Council, Elgin Cannon of Lassen County Arts Council, Penel Curtis of Nevada County Arts, and Paul Harrar, School Arts Liaison with the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools.\n\nAimee Pitcher (1st Place Winner) and Tom\n\nAimee and her first place artwork, \u201cSapphire\u201d\n\n2nd Place Winner Carrie Etherington, Tom and art titled \u201cLiberty and Justice For All\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:28Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/remarks-on-the-greek-bailout", "Remarks on the Greek Bailout", "2010-05-19", "2010", "2010-05", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "May 19, 2010\n\nI spoke with Marvin Goodfriend of Carnegie Mellon just before we came out and I don\u2019t want to steal his thunder but he appears to have come up with a radical new economic theory that if you spend more than you take in year after year eventually you will run out of money.\n\nI tried to explain to him that I\u2019m from California and we\u2019ve been doing things that way for years. Do you know the difference between Greece and California? About three years.\n\nThe first law of holes seems applicable in this case: When you\u2019re in one, stop digging. That goes for my home state of California, whose fiscal affairs are just a few years behind Greece; and it goes for America whose fiscal affairs are just a few years behind California.\n\nAmerica must not become an enabler for the fiscal folly of Europe. Nor should it become an imitator of that folly.\n\nUnder this administration, it is doing both, and Americans have had enough.\n\nShakespeare\u2019s advice applies to profligate nations just as it applies to profligate sons: neither a borrower nor a lender be. It\u2019s about time we heed that advice before we destroy our country.\n\nIf we cannot afford to allow Greece or the European Union to collapse, then we certainly can\u2019t afford to bail them out. If we all agree that their fiscal policies are unsustainable, then it naturally follows that prolonging those policies simply deepens the ultimate crisis. The issue is not whether their policies will collapse but when \u2013 and whether they take America with them when they do.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:28Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mcclintock-joins-house-republicans-to-launch-new-10th-amendment-task-force", "McClintock Joins House Republicans to Launch New 10th Amendment Task Force", "2010-05-06", "2010", "2010-05", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Task Force Seeks to Restore Constitutional Balance of Power Through Federalism\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Representative Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay) joined Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Tom Price (R-GA), Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and nine other Republican Members of Congress to officially launch the newly formed 10th Amendment Task Force, a project of the RSC. The Task Force will develop and promote proposals that aim to disperse power, decision-making, and money from Washington back to states, local governments, and individuals.\n\nThe Task Force was created in response to the concentration of power and the one-size-fits-all solutions from Washington. Representative McClintock made the following remarks at today's press conference:\n\n\"I believe that it can be stated as a universal maxim that the failures of our government can be traced to a single cause: the abandonment of federalism.\n\n\"The tenth Amendment was not written to protect states rights. Experience has shown that state governments can be just as abusive of their authority as any other government.\n\n\"The tenth Amendment is rather about dividing governmental authority to limit the abuse of power that naturally occurs when it accumulates into too few hands.\n\n\"The Founders knew that the ultimate check upon an abusive or dysfunctional government is the ability of people to walk away from it. By limiting the federal government to those enumerated powers that serve a truly national objective, our Constitution disperses the remaining powers among 50 states and a hundred fold more communities.\n\n\"Those states that are governed unwisely naturally lose population and commerce and revenues to those that are governed well. It is a self-correcting mechanism.\n\n\"In 1821, Jefferson warned that \"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:28Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/designation-of-national-monuments-natural-resources-committee-full-committee", "Designation of National Monuments - Natural Resources Committee - Full Committee Markup", "2010-05-05", "2010", "2010-05", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Representative McClintock delivered the following remarks today in the House Natural Resources Committee on House Resolution 1254. The resolution directs the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the House of Representatives specific information relating to potential National Monuments designations.\n\nFull Committee Markup \u2013 Natural Resources Committee\n\nMay 5, 2010\n\nMr. Chairman:\n\nI speak in support of this resolution with an urgency bordering on desperation for the people of Modoc and Lassen counties in my Congressional district who are directly in the path of the proposal to close some 3 million acres of the Modoc Plateau as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906.\n\nI want the committee and the administration to understand something. These folks have already been devastated by federal land use restrictions. This region is one of the most timber-rich and mineral-rich areas of the United States, and yet federal restrictions have left it economically prostrate: Modoc County currently suffers an 18.2 percent unemployment rate and Lassen County 16.7 percent.\n\nNational Monument status could close the Modoc Plateau to future mineral exploration, timber development, or even grazing, and local communities could face still more job losses and reduced tax revenues. This is one of the most rural areas of my district; they are suffering from a shrinking tax base because the state and federal governments already control over 60% of the land. An expansion of land use restrictions will only further stifle an already struggling economy.\n\nThe preservation of public land is not an end in itself \u2013 it is a means to an end: the public good. And the public good is not served by the mindless closure of vast tracts of land at the expense of the sustainable use of our natural resources, responsible stewardship of our public lands, and the freedom and property rights of our citizens. Monument designation authority was created by the Antiquities Act of 1906 as an emergency power to protect small archeological areas from looting.\n\nThe use of this authority to place off-limits some three million acres of land just for the hell of it is a gross abuse of power by this administration and has devastating consequences to the people and the economy of my district.\n\nOur current administration is now planning to further restrict land use and they are ignoring our requests for information.\n\nThis should be a public process with public comment, especially if, as the Chairman has just stated, this is just the formative phase of an unprecedented initiative using the very limited and very specific Antiquities Act.\n\nPresident Obama issued a statement in support of \u201cSunshine Week\u201d on March 16, 2010 and said: \u201cI want to applaud everyone who has worked to increase transparency in government and recommit my administration to be the most open and transparent ever, an effort that will strengthen our democracy and ensure the public\u2019s trust in their government.\u201d\n\nIt is obvious that President Obama is not holding Secretary Salazar to this standard, which is not acceptable to me or my constituents and should not be tolerated by any Member of Congress.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:28Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-tom-mcclintock-presented-with-the-spirit-of-enterprise-award", "Representative Tom McClintock Presented with the Spirit of Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce", "2010-04-27", "2010", "2010-04", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Representative Tom McClintock Presented with the\n\nSpirit of Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\n\nAward given to members of Congress for supporting legislation critical to the American business community\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Representative Tom McClintock (R \u2013 Granite Bay) today received the Spirit of Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The award is given annually to members of Congress for supporting legislation critical to the American business community.\n\n\"Commerce is the life's blood of our economy,\" said Representative McClintock. \"No great civilization has risen without great commerce, and no civilization has endured that has not protected and defended its commerce. That is why I am honored to receive this award.\"\n\nThis is the twenty-second year that the U.S. Chamber has formally honored members of Congress with its \"Spirit of Enterprise\" award based on rankings for key business votes. The awards given today were in recognition of votes in the First Session of the 111th Congress.\n\n\"The business community depends on solid partnerships on Capitol Hill to help grow the economy and create new jobs for hardworking Americans,\" Tom Donohue, Chamber president and CEO, said. \"This award recognizes those lawmakers who have demonstrated leadership on important business issues.\n\n\"The Chamber applauds Representative McClintock for supporting the private sector and job growth through these difficult times, said Donohue. \"He has demonstrated great courage and we commend him.\"\n\nThe U.S. Chamber is the world's largest business federation and represents more than three million business and organizations.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:25Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-mcclintock-statement-on-the-expansion-of-government-regulation", "Congressman McClintock - Statement on the Expansion of Government Regulation over U.S. Water", "2010-04-21", "2010", "2010-04", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Representative Tom McClintock (CA-04) issued the following statement in response to the introduction of legislation that will provide for a federal government takeover of all bodies of water in the United States.\n\nThe legislation, H.R. 5088 by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar (D-MN), seeks to increase the federal government\u2019s jurisdiction over water from \u201cnavigable\u201d waterways, to include all inland waters, including irrigation canals and small ponds.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:25Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/in-defense-of-the-constitution", "In Defense of the Constitution", "2010-03-21", "2010", "2010-03", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Remarks by Representative Tom McClintock on the government takeover of healthcare. The legislation, HR 3590, was approved by Congress on March 21, 2010. Representative McClintock voted no on the bill.\n\n\"Under the provisions of this bill, Americans will be required by federal law to purchase health insurance policies that include every mandate imposed by the new federal health czar and will face federal fines and even imprisonment if they refuse. And they will pay for them through a combination of higher taxes, higher premiums or lower wages.\n\n\u201cThe proposition that Congress has the power to order Americans to purchase insurance \u2013 or any other product \u2013 is contrary to the fundamental concept of individual liberty and antithetical to the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment. If this precedent were to be upheld, the federal government will have assumed authority over every aspect of individual choice in the care of ourselves and our families and can logically be extended to what foods we choose or to what physical activities we engage in. Nor is this brave new doctrine limited to health care. Once the precedent is established that government may usurp individual decisions in the marketplace, what limitation remains on its power to order any other of our decisions as consumers?\n\n\u201cFortunately, the Constitution still protects our freedom from such usurpations. It will fall to the Supreme Court to hold this act accountable to the Constitution and it will fall to \u201cWe the People\u201d to hold those responsible for it accountable at the polls.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:21Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-concurrent-resolution-248-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-statement-by", "House Concurrent Resolution 248 - Withdrawal from Afghanistan - Statement by Congressman Tom McClintock", "2010-03-10", "2010", "2010-03", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "The attack of September 11th, 2001 was our generation\u2019s Pearl Harbor. The Al Qaeda terrorists received succor, protection and encouragement from the Taliban government and accordingly acted as an agency of that government just as surely as the Japanese naval air forces that attacked Pearl Harbor acted as an agency of the government of Japan.\n\nIn 1941, President Roosevelt asked for, and received, a declaration of war from Congress as provided in the Constitution. He then put the entire might and fury of the nation into the war and within 3 \u00bd years we had utterly vanquished the two most powerful armies on the planet. Only then did we establish military governments that ordered Japanese and German society to our liking, and only after we were satisfied that the new governments would endure did we relinquish control. Japan and Germany have since been among our closest allies.\n\nHow different was our response in 2001. Then, President Bush came before Congress, promised to bring the individuals responsible for the attack to justice and then invited the nation to go shopping. He sought an ambiguous resolution authorizing the use of force at his discretion and deployed armed forces that were wholly inadequate to subdue and control the population of that nation. Two years later he invaded a nation that had nothing to do with the attack.\n\nFor eight years now, the valiant men and women of our armed forces have fought with constraints never before imposed on American soldiers because of a strategy compromised by irresolution, and political correctness. The current administration has inherited an untenable situation. But it continues and amplifies the folly of its predecessor in three critical areas.\n\nFirst, the administration has defined victory not as destroying the ability and will of the enemy to make war, but rather as \u201cwinning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.\u201d This is a mistake. One nation cannot win the hearts and minds of another nation while waging war against it. The civilian populations of Germany and Japan despised the American occupation but were so exhausted and decimated that they could no longer resist it. It was then and only then \u2013 under military government and authority \u2013 that we began to shape those societies in a manner acceptable to civilized nations.\n\nSecond, the administration has placed absurd restrictions on our forces that have greatly complicated their mission, and endangered their security. War is mankind\u2019s most terrible scourge; it is barbaric and cruel and destroys many innocent lives. Most of the casualties of World War II were civilians. If we are to put our soldiers into combat, it must be with the freedom to wage war whether or not civilians happen to be present.\n\nThird, MacArthur was correct: in war there is no substitute for victory. By committing inadequate force to win the war and simultaneously announcing our timetable for withdrawal, I fear that President Obama has assured continued stalemate and given the enemy its most valuable ally: time. This policy further undermines the administration\u2019s own civilian-centric strategy by relying on the cooperation of civilians who can reasonably anticipate a return of the Taliban within weeks of the already-announced American withdrawal in the summer of 2011.\n\nHowever, the precipitous withdrawal of American troops has grave implications that will follow us many years into the future and requires a belief beyond a reasonable doubt that greater harm will come to America by continuing the war than by ending it.\n\nIf America immediately withdraws its troops as ordered by H.Con.Res. 248, we can reasonably predict on the one hand that we will prevent American casualties and conserve American wealth. But the cost will almost certainly be the immediate collapse of Afghanistan, the return of the Taliban, the re-establishment of Al Qaeda sanctuaries, the execution of Afghans who assisted the American forces, and the recognition by hostile governments around the world that America is incapable of defending her interests. The last outcome is the most dangerous because it will figure into countless calculations in unfriendly capitals around the world that could well cost many thousands of American lives in the future.\n\nWe can be far more confident in predicting the immediate harm from withdrawal than we can predict conditions a year from now for two reasons.\n\nThe first is the unpredictability of war. The President has recently altered the strategy by ordering a troop surge. For all the reasons discussed above, I doubt that it will succeed but I also must concede that it might. Skepticism that the administration will succeed is not the same as certainty that it will fail.\n\nThe second reason is that policy can change. The administration has already hedged considerably on its withdrawal announcement. At any time it could restore common sense to its rules of engagement and provide ample force to produce victory. If the strategy is changed then the outcome is changed, but that possibility is foreclosed if the resolution is adopted.\n\nIn short, the immediate and irremediable harm from a sudden troop withdrawal far outweighs my skepticism of our current strategy and tactics. For that reason, I oppose House Concurrent Resolution 248.\n\n# # #\n\nMarch 10, 2010", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:21Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/spending-limitation-amendment-press-conference", "Spending Limitation Amendment Press Conference", "2010-03-03", "2010", "2010-03", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Representative Tom McClintock (CA - 04) today made the following remarks at a press conference held to introduce a Spending Limitation Constitutional Amendment. Representative McClintock is co-author of the legislation.\n\nDuring the 1980's, California enjoyed a Constitutional spending limit that produced a decade of balanced budgets, prudent reserves, no tax increases and steady economic growth. You can measure California's fiscal collapse from that day in 1990 when Californians foolishly threw that limit away.\n\nHistory offers us not a single example of a nation that spent and borrowed and taxed its way to economic prosperity, but it offers us many examples of nations that spent and borrowed and taxed their way to economic ruin and bankruptcy.\n\nLet that not be the epitaph of the American Republic. Let it be said that just when it appeared that America's credit, currency and prosperity were about to be destroyed by reckless spending, this generation restored sound principles of fiscal management and insisted that its government do what its people do every day: work hard, waste not, and live within your means.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:21Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-by-representative-tom-mcclintock-on-the-department-of-the", "Statement by Representative Tom McClintock on the Department of the Interior's California Water Forecast Announcement", "2010-03-01", "2010", "2010-03", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "I was extremely disappointed that on the same day we learned that the Northern Sierra snowpack is at 125% percent of normal, peeling away rhetoric that could only be best described as self-serving and deceptive, the administration has only actually committed to releasing 5% percent of water deliveries owed to the Central Valley, with the remaining 25% contingent on remaining precipitation.\n\nThe Administration has acknowledged that in a similar weather year, the allocation would be as much as 20 percent higher, or enough water to grow food for 145,000 families for a year, if it were not for two biological opinions on smelt, salmon and killer whales that restrict delta water deliveries.\n\nRepublicans on the Water and Power Subcommittee will continue efforts to bring about relief to the tens of thousands of unemployed in California\u2019s Central Valley.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:21Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-by-representative-tom-mcclintock-on-the-klamath-agreement", "Statement by Representative Tom McClintock on the Klamath Agreement", "2010-02-18", "2010", "2010-02", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "At a time when Californians are paying the highest electricity prices in the Continental United States and when officials can\u2019t guarantee enough electricity to keep the lights on, the decision to deliberately destroy 155 megawatts of the cleanest and cheapest electricity available is simply insane.\n\nThe Klamath Agreement, if actually consummated, will rank as one of the great follies of the Schwarzenegger administration.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:19Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-mcclintock-announces-2010-congressional-art-competition", "Representative McClintock Announces 2010 Congressional Art Competition", "2010-02-11", "2010", "2010-02", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "February 11, 2010\n\nAll high school students are invited to participate in the Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, a nation-wide high school art competition sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The contest is open to all high school students within the Fourth Congressional District.\n\nThe winning entry will be displayed for one year in the Cannon Tunnel, leading to the U.S. Capitol. Each winning student will be invited, along with one guest, to the unveiling of the exhibit and a reception for all winners in June. Two round trip tickets will be provided to the winning student.\n\nInterested students should fax a copy of the Student Release Form to the attention of Mrs. Kathy Arts, at 916-786-6364. Students may also mail the Release Form to the following address:\n\nCongressman Tom McClintock\n\n4230 Douglas Blvd. Suite 200\n\nGranite Bay, CA 95746\n\nArtwork should be sent to the following address, to be received no later than Friday, April 30th:\n\nThe Fourth District Congressional Arts Competition\n\nC/o PlacerArts\n\n808 Lincoln Way, Auburn, CA 95603\n\nHOURS: TUESDAY through FRIDAY 10 AM TO 5 PM\n\n(Please call in advance if you are hand delivering - 530-885-5670)\n\nA panel of qualified artists and local officials will judge the artwork the first week of May. If you have any further questions, contact Kathy Arts in my district office at 916-786-5560.\n\nIssues:Local Issues", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:19Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-water-and-power-sub-committee-opening-statement", "House Water and Power Sub-Committee, Opening Statement", "2010-02-04", "2010", "2010-02", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Opening Statement\n\nCongressman Tom McClintock\n\nHouse Water and Power Sub-Committee\n\nFebruary 4, 2010.\n\nLast week, Republicans held a listening forum in Fresno to hear directly from the people of California\u2019s Central Valley who have been devastated by the federal government\u2019s willful decision to turn off their water to indulge the environmental left\u2019s pet causes.\n\nI\u2019m sorry this sub-committee chose not to attend. If my colleagues had attended, they would have heard the rain outside, while inside they would have heard that up to 10,000 extra acre feet of water is being sent out to the ocean PER DAY because of federal environmental regulations. As Tom Birmingham from the Westlands Water District just said in the Contra Costa Times, \u201cUnder the federal rules, the more it rains, the more water we lose.\u201d This is insanity.\n\nTo make matters worse \u2013 and a day after our listening session in Fresno \u2013 the administration tried to misrepresent the release of ALREADY SCHEDULED water deliveries as some sort of great new relief to the Valley. This prompted the Fresno Bee \u2013 hardly a hotbed of conservative activism \u2013 to say that Secretary Salazar (quote) \u201ceither doesn\u2019t understand the complicated Western water picture or he thinks Valley residents can be fooled by his pronouncements.\u201d\n\nThis is the same Secretary Salazar who admitted to the Natural Resources Committee last year that the government had the authority to turn the pumps back on but that it chose not to do so because (quote) \u201cit would be like admitting failure.\u201d\n\nAbsent administration action, we have a bill languishing in the Natural Resources committee that will turn those pumps back on, authored by Mr. Nunes, but the committee obstinately refuses to hear it. Instead, we have Mr. Costa\u2019s bill to use so-called stimulus funding to build fish screens. This is now being touted as some great new relief to the Valley. We\u2019re not willing to turn the pumps back on \u2013 which costs taxpayers nothing \u2013 but we\u2019re more than happy to shovel untold millions of dollars for fish screens and other environmental mitigations.\n\nThe approach of the majority party reminds me of something Leo Tolstoy wrote about the Czar\u2019s despotic rule. He wrote, \u201cI sit on a man\u2019s back choking him and making him carry me, and all the while I assure him and anyone who will listen that I am very sympathetic to his plight and willing to do everything I can to help \u2013 except by getting off his back.\u201d\n\nMadam Chairwoman, this is becoming farcical. The people of the San Joaquin Valley are not asking for taxpayer handouts, they are simply asking Congress to find the political will to act and to act now. An almond orchard that dies for lack of water isn\u2019t going to produce almonds this year. But it also isn\u2019t going to produce almonds next year or the year after. We are now in imminent danger of destroying the agricultural infrastructure of the Central Valley \u2013 solely because of the intransigence of this very sub-committee.\n\nSo I say, as plainly as I can \u2013 Mr. Salazar, turn on these pumps. Madam Chairwoman, turn on these pumps.\n\nThe time to act is long overdue. There is nothing that I can find in this bill that will restore water deliveries to the Central Valley this year. NOTHING. There is very little in this bill that will directly deliver additional water to the Central Valley ever.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:19Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-issued-the-following-statement-in-reaction-to-the", "Congressman Tom McClintock issued the following statement in reaction to the President's State of the Union speech:", "2010-01-27", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cIt is disappointing that after a year of failed bank bailouts and reckless spending has failed to produce real jobs, the President seems to be doubling down. I suppose it is human nature that the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them. But it doesn\u2019t make for wise public policy.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s future prosperity depends on restoring freedom of enterprise, not interposing government into every aspect of our lives. That\u2019s what the stunning reversal in the polls and at the polls is telling the President, but he doesn\u2019t seem to be listening.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:16Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-agony-of-the-central-valley", "The Agony of the Central Valley", "2010-01-26", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "House Chamber, Washington D.C.\n\nJanuary 26, 2010\n\nMadam Speaker:\n\nFor many months, the Republicans on the Water and Power Sub-Committee of the House Natural Resources Committee have implored the majority Democrats to hold a hearing in the Central Valley of California to see and hear for themselves the damage that the federal government has caused by diverting 200 billion gallons of water away from Central Valley farms in order to indulge the environmental Left\u2019s pet cause, the Delta Smelt.\n\nAfter our pleas were met with continued stonewalling, we decided to hold a forum under our own auspices and invite all members of the California Congressional Delegation, all members of the Natural Resources Committee and representatives of the Obama administration to see firsthand what their policies have wrought.\n\nInstead, after we had announced the forum, the Water and Power Sub-Committee Chairwoman decided to meet on the same day in Southern California to extol the virtues of water conservation.\n\nCongress has thus made clear its intention to sacrifice the people of the San Joaquin Valley on the altar of environmental extremism.\n\nDespite heavy rains over the past month, the Administration continues to blame a relatively mild drought for the fact Valley farmers will receive only five percent of the water they are entitled to. This does not explain how, in far more severe droughts than this, Valley farmers have received far greater allocations. Nor does it explain how these massive water diversions for the Delta Smelt are justified if supplies are so constratined.\n\nHad the Democrats come to Fresno, they would have heard and seen the anguish of the people of the Central Valley of California. The water diversions have destroyed a half-million acres of the most productive farmland in America and thrown 30,000 Central Valley families into unemployment.\n\nThey would have heard the stories of food lines in communities that once prided themselves on being the breadbasket of the western United States. They would have heard about the frustration of seeing produce imported from China being handed out in those food lines to the very same American farmers who once supplied the same produce to the world.\n\nAnd they would have seen the anger as the absent Interior Secretary\u2019s testimony to the Natural Resources Committee last year was played back, in which he admitted that the Obama administration has the authority to turn the water pumps back on, but that it chooses not to do so because that would be \u201clike admitting failure.\u201d\n\nThere is some good news. This afternoon, the day after our forum in Fresno, the Interior Secretary relented to the extent of releasing 350,000 to 400,000 acre-feet of water already owned by Central Valley farmers. Having demonstrated his authority to do so, he now needs to follow through and release the water that he holds hostage to the Delta Smelt.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr. Nunes of California has introduced HR 3105, the \u201cTurn On the Pumps Act,\u201d which does exactly the same thing that Congress did under far less severe circumstances several years ago in New Mexico. Met with the same intransigence from the Water and Power Subcommittee, Mr. Nunes has filed a discharge petition to bypass that subcommittee and bring that bill directly to the House for a vote. It needs 218 signatures. So far it has 105 \u2013 104 Republicans and only 1 Democrat.\n\nMadam Speaker, I assure you that it is not only the Central Valley that is suffering. The willful destruction of 500,000 acres of American farmland by these massive water diversions \u2013 all for the enjoyment and amusement of the three-inch long Delta Smelt -- is reflected in the rising prices for produce that families are feeling far beyond the Congressionally created dustbowl of California\u2019s Central Valley.\n\nNor is the Delta Smelt doing any better. Despite these massive water diversions, the Delta Smelt population fell back to the historic low set in 2005, and is now well below the high points recorded in the late 1970s. Given these findings, how can anybody argue that the Delta pumping restrictions are benefiting the Delta Smelt.\n\nMadam Speaker, I promised to carry the plea from the many Americans who poured their hearts out to us in Fresno on Monday for Congress to come to the Central Valley and see what their policies have caused. I place their invitation before you.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:16Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-tom-mcclintock-to-hold-town-hall-meeting-saturday-january-23", "Congressman Tom McClintock to Hold Town Hall Meeting Saturday January 23", "2010-01-20", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Event: Town Hall Meeting with Constituents When: Saturday January 23, 2010 Time: 10:00am Location: Oak Ridge High School-in the \u201cBig Gym\u201d 1120 Harvard Way, El Dorado Hills", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:16Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representative-tom-mcclintock-schedule-january-8", "Representative Tom McClintock Schedule January 8", "2010-01-07", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Time: 10:30 AM\n\nLocation: 6610 Sierra College Blvd., Rocklin\n\nEvent: Speaks to Builders and Tradesmen\u2019s Insurance Services staff about economy and health care.\n\nTime: 11:45 AM\n\nLocation: 5438 Laird Road, Loomis\n\nEvent: Speaks to students and parents at Loomis Basin Charter School\n\nTime: 1:45 PM\n\nLocation: 11600 Education Street, Auburn\n\nEvent: Speech to staff and residents on health care at Siena Care Center\n\nTime: 3:00 PM\n\nLocation: 1030 High Street, Auburn\n\nEvent: Editorial Board with Auburn Journal\n\nTime: 4:15 PM\n\nLocation: 464 Sutton Way, Grass Valley\n\nEvent: Editorial Board with The Union\n\nTime: 5:00 PM\n\nLocation: 1255 E. Main Street, Grass Valley\n\nEvent: Live Interview with KNCO Radio\n\nTime: 6:00 PM\n\nLocation: 401 Spring Street Nevada City\n\nEvent: Live interview with KVMR Radio", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:16Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-tom-mcclintock-names-rocky-deal-new-district-director", "Rep. Tom McClintock Names Rocky Deal New District Director", "2010-01-04", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (Ca 04) has named Rocklun \u201cRocky\u201d Deal as District Director. Deal had an illustrious career in the Navy, as well as extensive experience in the military, business and civic leadership. \u201cRocky Deal has unmatched leadership experience and ability,\u201d Rep. McClintock said. \u201cI am honored that a man who has done so much for his country and his community is now continuing his service for the people of California\u2019s Fourth Congressional District.\u201d\n\n\u201cTom McClintock has established himself as a leader among conservatives in the House of Representatives,\u201d Deal said. \u201cI look forward to working with him to help restore America to the principles that made our nation great.\u201d\n\nDeal capped a 28 year career in the U.S. Navy as Chief of Staff to the Commander of Naval Air Forces Pacific. He had previously served as the Commanding Officer of America\u2019s Flagship, the super carrier USS Constellation. He also served as Commanding Officer of the USS Kalamazoo and the Operation Officer of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Deal led the legendary \u201cJolly Rogers\u201d Fighter Squadron, the Eighty-Four, that earned the honor of being named the best fighter squadron in the Atlantic Fleet.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:16Z"], ["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/fall-internship-opportunity", "Fall Internship Opportunity", "2010-01-01", "2010", "2010-01", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "The office of Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA-04) is seeking interns to begin in August/September 2010 and continue until December 2010 in the Washington, DC office.\n\nPosition responsibilities include assisting in day-to-day office operations and other duties as requested by staff members. Candidates should have a strong work ethic, work well as a part of a small team, and possess a positive attitude. This internship is unpaid. College credit, if applicable, will be provided. Recent college graduates are also welcome to apply. Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to Kimberly Unitt-Zupkus at kim.unitt-zupkus@mail.house.gov with \u201cFall Internship\u201d in the subject line. 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