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Member, Fourth Amendment Caucus, present
Member, Tea Party Caucus, present
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Federal Lands Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Fourth Amendment Caucus, present
Member, Tea Party Caucus, present
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Federal Lands Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Committee on the Budget
Member, Committee on the Judiciary
Member, Natural Resources Committee
Member, Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
Member, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Member, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- No
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- No
Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No
1. Do you support increasing defense spending?
- No
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- No
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- No
1. Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Reducing the capital gains tax rate on profits from the sale of stocks, bonds and real estate.
- X
2. Permitting tax-free withdrawals from IRAs in limited circumstances.
- X
3. Providing some kind of middle-class tax break.
- X
4. Increasing the income taxes of those with incomes over $100,000.
- No Answer
5. Providing a tax credit for first-time home buyers.
- X
6. Repealing luxury taxes on limited items.
- X
7. Providing a temporary investment tax credit.
- X
8. Other
- No Answer
1. Health Care
- Decrease Spending
2. Unemployment
- Decrease Spending
3. AIDS Research
- Decrease Spending
4. Environment
- Decrease Spending
5. Defense
- Keep Spending The Same
6. Education
- Keep Spending The Same
7. National Debt Payments
- No Answer
8. Drugs
- Keep Spending The Same
1. Reduce governmental defense spending.
- X
2. Reduce governmental domestic spending.
- X
3. Raise personal income taxes for all citizens.
- No Answer
4. Raise personal income taxes for citizens with incomes over $100,000.
- No Answer
5. Raise corporate taxes.
- No Answer
6. Do nothing at the present time.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
1. Extending unemployment compensation further.
- Strongly Oppose
2. Federal support of job retraining programs.
- Oppose
3. Federal grants to states for creating jobs in inner cities.
- Oppose
4. Mandating workfare for welfare recipients.
- Strongly Support
5. Minimizing governmental intervention and letting the market take a more natural course.
- Strongly Support
6. Federal investment in America's infrastructure.
- Support
7. Other
- No Answer
1. Restricting the overall volume of goods entering the United States from Japan.
- No Answer
2. Imposing tariffs on goods entering the United States from Japan.
- No Answer
3. Requiring Japan to eliminate its trade surplus with the United States over a period of five years.
- No Answer
4. Requiring reciprocal trade agreements between the United States and Japan based on equal dollar values.
- No Answer
5. Imposing no restrictions on trade between the United States and Japan.
- X
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Reduction of the number of American military troops.
- Strongly Support
2. Continued funding of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
- Support
1. Elimination of private insurance in favor of a program administered and paid for by the federal government and run by the states, similar to the health care system in Canada.
- No Answer
2. Offering tax incentives to all small employers in return for guaranteed health insurance coverage of all employees and their families.
- X
3. Implementation of a "play or pay" program where employers must enroll their employees and families in a basic health plan or contribute to a public fund that will provide health care for everyone without coverage.
- No Answer
4. Creation of a fund designed to provide health insurance to the unemployed and supported by additional tax levies on large employers.
- No Answer
5. A system of tax credits and vouchers to provide health insurance for the working poor and people of moderate income.
- X
6. No reform necessary at this time.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
1. Increased federal funding.
- No Answer
2. Increased state and local funding.
- No Answer
3. Improved teacher recruitment and training.
- No Answer
4. National curricula and standards.
- No Answer
5. Smaller classes.
- No Answer
6. Increased national testing.
- No Answer
7. A "choice" or "vouchers" program.
- X
8. No major changes are necessary at this time.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Provide federal funds to educate people about the dangers of drugs.
- No Answer
2. Provide federal funds to help drug addicts overcome their addictions.
- No Answer
3. Work with foreign governments to stop the export of drugs to this country.
- No Answer
4. Impose mandatory federal jail sentences for drug dealers.
- X
5. Impose mandatory federal jail sentences for drug users.
- No Answer
6. Legalize the possession and use of drugs.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
1. Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
- Support
2. Amending the Clean Water Act's section on wetlands to provide landowners with greater rights.
- Strongly Support
3. Reauthorization of The Endangered Species Act in its current form.
- Oppose
1. Parental or spousal notification prior to permitting an abortion.
- Strongly Support
2. Abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.
- Oppose
3. Federally funded abortions should be permitted.
- Oppose
4. Women should be able to get abortions if they want no matter what the reason.
- Oppose
5. Abortion should be legal only in limited circumstances, for example, when the life of the mother is endangered or in the case of rape or incest.
- Support
1. Expansion of the number of federal crimes punishable by death.
- Strongly Support
2. A mandatory waiting period before the purchase of a handgun.
- Strongly Oppose
3. Increased federal spending for state and local police programs.
- Oppose
4. A ban on the sale and possession of assault-style semiautomatic weapons.
- Strongly Oppose
5. A limitation on habeas corpus appeals for death row inmates.
- Strongly Support
6. Other
- No Answer
How will you finance (when necessary) each priority?
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Yes
Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Tracker:By Congressman Tom McClintock Many Americans still have serious concerns about the integrity of the vote in this election, and rightly so. In-person Election Day voting, with all the safeguards inherent in that system, has been replaced with mass mailing of ballots to every name on voter rolls that may be deceased or have moved, often followed by ballot harvesters to collect the surplus ballots and with no chain of custody. This new system invites fraud and incubates suspicion of fraud. The many eye-witness accounts in sworn affidavits of ballot tampering and the documented cases of multiple votes, votes by dead people or by non-residents, deserve far more attention than they have received. Despite the clear and precise language of the Electors Clause of the Constitution -- that electors shall be appointed "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" -- several states changed their election laws not by legislative action but by executive decree. This was the subject of the friend of the court brief submitted by 126 members of the House, including myself, in support of the suit brought by Texas and 18 other states: "Can a legislature delegate such authority and if not, what is the remedy for an illegally conducted election?" We still don't know the answer to that question, because the Supreme Court refused to hear it. But does this give Congress leave to usurp their powers? Does Congress have the constitutional right to refuse to count the votes of states that it believes acted fraudulently or illegally? If the Congress can refuse to count electoral votes -- for whatever reason -- then it has the inherent power to seize the decision for itself and render the Electoral College superfluous. Unlike the judiciary, Congress has an obvious conflict of interest: if it invalidates enough votes, it gets to elect the President and Vice- President directly. If the Founders had intended to give this power to the Congress, why did they go to all the fuss and bother of designing an Electoral College at all? And here's a bonus question: does anyone seriously believe that a body of 535 intensely partisan politicians is a safe repository for the power to adjudicate the integrity of the vote? Benjamin Franklin once warned us that as creatures of reason, we have the faculty to come up with whatever reason we need to do whatever we want. That's why we have a Constitution which commands, "The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted." There is no discretion offered to the Vice President or the Congress. "The votes shall then be counted." Not some of the votes. ALL of the votes. Congress has occasionally refused to count electoral votes submitted to it under the doctrine that the power to count the vote implies the power to certify it. Yet under the 12th Amendment, certification rests solely with the states. Article III assigns the resolution of controversies arising under the Constitution and laws solely to the judiciary. The Electoral Count Act of 1887 attempts to define a role for Congress in deciding which votes to count -- but even its provisions are inapplicable here, since the administrative and judicial challenges have run their course, the states have certified the electors, and the electors have voted. From that point on, the disturbing questions about the conduct of this election pass from judges to historians. And perhaps prosecutors. We desperately need intensive state and federal investigations into all the allegations of fraud in this election. Every fraudulent vote disenfranchises an honest citizen. Until there is a full public airing and resolution of the charges, the questions will remain, and a lingering pall of illegitimacy will stalk the new administration. We might even discover the election was indeed wrongly decided -- just as we occasionally find cases erroneously decided by juries. No one has ever claimed that ours is a perfect system. It is merely the best we have yet been able to design. And until we come up with something better, we owe it to our country, our Constitution and our posterity to stand by it and to respect its outcome, despite our wishes and suspicions.
