Representative Tom McClintock News

With visions of a Republican majority dancing in his head, California U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy is driving the back roads of America these days, looking for fresh faces to represent his party in 2010.

Whatever one's political viewpoint, it's fairly well understood that the nation President Obama inherited last January is confronted with serious problems which demand his and our attention.

WASHINGTON>> A House committee approved legislation yesterday that would let native Hawaiians establish their own government, but supporters acknowledge that some behind-the-scenes negotiations are still in order before the bill progresses to the full House.

Washington is moving to assist California and other cash-strapped states that face the prospect of raising taxes or cutting spending again in 2010 to balance their books.

Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee announced that they will hold a congressional forum on resolving the San Joaquin Valley water crisis in Fresno, California on Monday, January 25, 2010.

Last night a group of concerned taxpayers attended former OC Register Senior Editorial Writer and Columnist Steven Greenhut's C-SPAN Book Notes taping and book signing event held at Barnes & Noble in the city of Orange.

California and other financially strapped states will lose tens of millions of federal dollars that they spend to jail illegal immigrants charged with crimes, under Congress' latest spending bill.

The House of Representatives today passed a bill which would prevent the reduction of the Federal Estate Tax Threshold to $1Million. HR 4154 retains the current $3.5 million threshold for the tax.

Republican Congressman Tom McClintock claimed in a recent speech that the federal government has spent $1.1 million dollars per job creation in his Congressional District , the 4th District of California.

Rocklin Councilman Peter Hill switched from Republican to "decline to state." It was a win one, lose one kind of day for Placer County Republicans.

Tom McClintock stood before a crowded town hall Monday, evenly answering sometimes emotional questions about national politics, health care and the economy.

In the past, members of Congress have never been particularly eager to remind the public that they vote regularly to increase the ceiling on the national debt, which now exceeds $12 trillion, or more visually: $12,000,000,000,000. The debt has more than doubled since 2002 and, in the past two years alone, has been rising at a clip of more than $3.8 ...

The Placer County Republican Central Committee is making waves with accusations that some GOP officeholders in the party stronghold are not a deep enough shade of red.

Republican Rep. Tom McClintock says the federal government has wasted enough money subsidizing solar power, calculating that it would take 22,000 acres of solid solar panels to duplicate the energy from a single nuclear plant.

Rep. Tom McClintock has raised more than $838,000 since the November election, and he seems to have a lock on the district that spans Placer and El Dorado counties.

In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co.

Assemblyman Anthony Adams, who is facing a possible recall election, said he is more relaxed about his fate than people might expect.

Rep. Tom McClintock discusses health care legislation before a full house Saturday at the Orchard Creek Lodge in Lincoln's Sun City retirement community, saying, "We believe our country is at stake." A week after the House passed a trillion-dollar health care overhaul bill, several hundred vehement opponents gathered Saturday at a Lincoln ...

California has to cut back government regulations to avert bankruptices and more fiscal peril according to a number of area leaders who spoke at a special meeting Friday in Nevada City.

Charlie Brown, seen in this file photo from the 2008 election, has accepted a Washington post.