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| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-fiscal-cliff | The Fiscal Cliff | 2012-12-12 | 2012 | 2012-12 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | Congressman Tom McClintock House Chamber, Washington, D.C. December 12, 2012 Mr. Speaker: To understand the federal budget mess and the so-called fiscal cliff, it’s important to remember three numbers: 39, 37 and 64. Thirty nine percent is the combined increase of inflation and population over the last ten years. Thirty nine percent. Thirty seven percent is the increase in revenues during the same period. That’s despite the recession and tax cuts. Not quite keeping place, but pretty close. Sixty four is what’s killing us. Sixty four percent is the increase in federal spending in that period. That’s nearly twice the rate of inflation and population over the last ten years. The spending side of the fiscal cliff is the so-called sequester: automatic cuts in federal spending. To hear some tell it, these cuts will mean the end of western civilization. Hardly. After a 64 percent increase in expenditures this decade, the sequester doesn’t actually cut spending at all: it simply limits spending growth next year to about a half a percent. I opposed the budget deal that created the sequester last year because it fell woefully short of what Standard and Poors clearly warned was necessary to preserve the nation’s triple-A credit rating. Sadly, that fear was born out. But now, the sequester is all we have. It’s true that defense takes the brunt of it, but does our defense spending today really need to be higher – inflation adjusted -- than it was at the height of the Vietnam War, when we faced down the Soviet Union and had 500,000 combat troops in the field? The sequester isn’t stepping off a cliff – it’s taking one step back from the cliff. The tax increases, however, are a different matter. Without intervention, the federal tax burden will balloon 21 percent at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, taking somewhere between two and three thousand dollars from an average family. This summer, the House passed legislation to protect our nation from such a calamity, but Mr. Obama vowed to veto it and the Senate … | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:11:51Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mek-statement | MEK Statement | 2012-09-28 | 2012 | 2012-09 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | Statement by Congressman Tom McClintock: "The delisting of MEK as a terrorist organization recognizes the crucial role it is playing in opposition to the fascist regime of Iran. It is long overdue." | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:11:34Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-export-import-boondoggle | The Export-Import Boondoggle | 2012-05-09 | 2012 | 2012-05 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | House Chamber, Washington, D.C. May 9, 2012 Mr. Speaker: The Export-Import Bank dragoons American taxpayers into subsidizing loans to foreign companies, making it cheaper for them to buy products from politically-favored American companies which in turn use those products to compete against less-favored American companies. Past beneficiaries include such upstanding enterprises as Solyndra and Enron. Since 2007, almost half of its money has gone to support that plucky little start-up called Boeing. Air India got $5 billion to purchase Boeing aircraft allowing them to undercut American carriers like Delta with their own tax money. We’re told we need to compete with other nations that do the same thing. If other nations want to impoverish themselves in this manner – we don’t need to imitate them. We’re told this doesn’t cost taxpayers – that in the last several years it’s actually turned a profit. That what they used to say about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – until they blew up in our face. Legitimate companies have plenty of access to private capital and don’t need these subsidies. The illegitimate ones shouldn’t be propped up with the hard-earned dollars of working taxpaying Americans. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:11:08Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-mcclintock-to-hold-town-hall-meeting-in-pollock-pines | Congressman McClintock to Hold Town Hall Meeting in Pollock Pines | 2012-04-17 | 2012 | 2012-04 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | Congressman Tom McClintock will hold a town hall meeting on Monday, April 30th in Pollock Pines. The meeting will be held at the Pollock Pines-Camino Community Center, 2675 Sanders Drive, Pollock Pines. The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:11:02Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/town-hall-meeting-in-foresthill | Town Hall Meeting in Foresthill | 2012-04-05 | 2012 | 2012-04 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | Congressman Tom McClintock will hold a town hall meeting in Foresthill on Wednesday, April 11th. The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM and will be held at the Foresthill Veterans Memorial Hall, 24601 Harrison Street, Foresthill. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:11:02Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/response-san-francisco-chronicle | Response San Francisco Chronicle | 2012-02-22 | 2012 | 2012-02 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | I have submitted a shorter letter responding to the Chronicle’s front-page article by Carolyn Lochhead (“Central Valley reps bill would upend water rights,” February 17, 2012), but believe the inaccuracies and omissions in it are so stark that it deserves a more detailed reply. “Representatives from the Central Valley pushed legislation through a House committee Thursday that would upend the state's system of water rights, deploying the federal government to extract water from Northern California farms, fisheries and cities to send to farmers in the valley.” Title IV of the measure specifically reaffirms and guarantees the state’s system of water rights and brings the full force of federal law to protect those rights. Indeed, the Northern California Water Association, representing the very water users Ms. Lochhead contends would have their rights “upended” and their water “extracted” strongly supports the bill. It writes: “The bill, if enacted, now contains provisions that would not only protect the interests of senior water rights holders in the Sacramento Valley, but would also provide significant, material water policy improvements to current federal law. The bill, if enacted, would provide an unprecedented federal statutory express recognition of, and commitment to, California’s state water rights priority system and area of origin protections. This is important for the region to provide sustainable water supplies for productive farmlands, wildlife refuges, and managed wetlands, cities and rural communities, recreation, and meandering rivers that support important fisheries.” Additionally, Title I, Section 105 of the bill permits Delta and Bay Area districts to re-use environmental water once it has served its purpose, increasing the amount of water available to Northern California communities. Finally, the vote was bi-partisan, with Democrats Jim Costa (D-California) and Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma) joining Republicans in adopting the bill 27 to 17. “The legislation would halt restoration of the San Joaquin… | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:10:41Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/weve-heard-this-song-before | We've Heard this Song Before | 2012-01-25 | 2012 | 2012-01 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | After President Clinton took a drubbing from voters in the 1994 Congressional election, he realized his policies weren't working. He promptly declared, "The era of big government is over," and he then went about making good on that declaration: • He reduced spending by a miraculous 3 1/2 percent of GDP. • He attacked entitlement spending and abolished the ballooning open-ended welfare system. • He signed what amounted to the biggest capital gains tax cut in American history. • He delivered the only four budget surpluses in four decades. • And he produced a period of prolonged economic expansion. President Obama faced a similar cross-road as he delivered his fourth State of the Union Address to Congress. If he had followed the example of his successful Democratic predecessor, he could have redeemed his presidency, revived the economy and rallied the country. Instead, he succumbed to the basic ingredient of hubris: that the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to correct them. Instead, his fourth State of the Union Address was indistinguishable from the three before it – the same big government bromides that have utterly failed to revive the economy while squandering trillions of dollars of the nation’s wealth. For two full years, lopsided Democratic majorities in Congress responded to eerily similar addresses by giving him everything he asked for, including the biggest single spending bill in history that he promised would keep the unemployment rate under eight percent. His fourth State of the Union speech came on the 35th consecutive month of unemployment rates over eight percent -- unemployment rates that would be still higher except that millions of Americans have simply given up looking for work and therefore are no longer counted among the unemployed. Indeed, fewer Americans are working today than on Inauguration day, 2009. In pursuing these policies, he has piled up as much debt in three years as the nation acquired from the first day of the George Washington administration to t… | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:10:31Z |
| https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressman-mcclintock-to-hold-truckee-town-hall-meeting | Congressman McClintock to Hold Truckee Town Hall Meeting | 2012-01-06 | 2012 | 2012-01 | Republican | House | CA | Tom McClintock | M001177 | mcclintock.house.gov | mcclintock | https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | Congressman Tom McClintock will hold a town hall meeting in Truckee on Tuesday, January 10 at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held in the Truckee Donner Public Utility District Conference Room, 11570 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:10:31Z |
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