54 Facts About Tom McClintock

Thomas Miller McClintock II is an American politician serving as the US representative for since 2009.

Tom McClintock unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 election.

Tom McClintock was born in White Plains, New York, and graduated in 1978 from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in political science.

Tom McClintock was chief of staff to State Senator Ed Davis from 1980 to 1982.

Tom McClintock was director of the Claremont Institute's Golden State Center for Policy Studies from 1995 to 1996.

In 1982, at age 26, Tom McClintock ran for California's 36th State Assembly district, then based in Thousand Oaks, after redistricting.

In 1998, Tom McClintock was reelected to a seventh term unopposed.

Tom McClintock authored California's lethal injection use for California's death penalty law.

Tom McClintock was a strong proponent of abolishing the car tax.

In 2000, Tom McClintock retired from the California Assembly to run for California's 19th State Senate district.

In 2008, Tom McClintock voted against Proposition 2, which prohibits confining calves, pigs and hens in small cages in which they cannot extend their limbs.

Tom McClintock has opposed deficit reduction efforts that would have increased taxes.

Tom McClintock supported the Bureaucracy Reduction and Closure Commission and performance-based budgeting.

Tom McClintock ran for California State Controller after incumbent Gray Davis retired.

Tom McClintock ran for controller again in 2002, facing Democratic nominee Steve Westly, an eBay executive.

Tom McClintock's campaigns focused on increasing accountability for the state budget.

In 2003, Tom McClintock ran in the recall election against Davis.

On March 4,2008, Tom McClintock announced his candidacy for the US House of Representatives in California's 4th congressional district, about 300 miles north of the district Tom McClintock represented in the state Senate.

Tom McClintock was unable to vote for himself in either the primary or the general election.

Tom McClintock was endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus, the Club for Growth, and US Representative Ron Paul.

Tom McClintock faced former US Representative Doug Ose, a moderate who represented the neighboring 3rd District from 1999 to 2005.

In March 2008, Ose's campaign commercials criticized Tom McClintock for receiving over $300,000 in per diem living expenses during his time in the state senate even though he lived in Elk Grove for most of the year.

Tom McClintock maintained that the payments were justified because his legal residence was in Thousand Oaks, in his district.

Tom McClintock ran ads attacking Brown's participation at a 2005 protest by Code Pink, a prominent antiwar group, and argued Brown supported gay marriage but not the troops in Iraq.

Tom McClintock portrayed Brown as a clone of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Tom McClintock prevailed by a 3,500-vote margin in Placer County, the district's largest county.

Tom McClintock said in 2016 that he intended to move his residence inside the redrawn 4th as soon as home prices rebounded enough for him to sell his Elk Grove home.

Tom McClintock and Democrat Jack Uppal were the only candidates in the "top two" primary, so the general election was a rematch.

Tom McClintock won all but two of the district's ten counties: Alpine and Nevada.

Tom McClintock defeated Democratic challenger Jessica Morse in the general election, receiving 184,401 votes to her 156,253.

Tom McClintock's chief of staff, Igor Birman, was a candidate for Congress in California's 7th congressional district in 2014.

In 2009, Tom McClintock signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any global warming legislation that would raise taxes.

Tom McClintock voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Tom McClintock voted against the first version of the bill, displeased with the removal of deductions related to medical expenses, student loan interest, and casualty loss.

In 2017, Tom McClintock called for special prosecutor Robert Mueller to investigate President Donald Trump.

Tom McClintock felt that Trump's firing of James Comey justified a special prosecutor.

Tom McClintock was one of the two members of California's congressional delegation to vote against it.

In 2020, Tom McClintock was the sole House Republican to cosponsor the Ending Qualified Immunity Act, which was proposed in response to the murder of George Floyd and resultant widespread protests.

Tom McClintock supported the Water Rights Protection Act, a bill that would prevent federal agencies from requiring certain entities to relinquish their water rights to the United States to use public lands.

In December 2020, Tom McClintock joined 125 other Republican members of Congress in signing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit by the attorney general of the state of Texas that sought to overturn the certified results of the 2020 presidential election in four other US states.

Tom McClintock later became one of seven Republicans who did not support their colleagues' efforts to challenge the results of the election on January 6,2021.

Tom McClintock voted against impeaching Trump over his role in inciting the 2021 storming of the US Capitol.

In 2015, Tom McClintock introduced an amendment to limit the enforcement of federal law in states that have legalized cannabis.

In 2016, Tom McClintock endorsed California's Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.

In 2020, Tom McClintock was one of five House Republicans to vote for the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act to legalize cannabis at the federal level.

In September 2021, Tom McClintock was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.

In 2019, Tom McClintock was one of 60 representatives to vote against condemning Trump's withdrawal from Syria.

In 2020, Tom McClintock voted against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, which would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval.

In June 2021, Tom McClintock was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.

In June 2021, Tom McClintock was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish June 19, or Juneteenth, as a federal holiday.

Tom McClintock voted against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.

Tom McClintock voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.

Tom McClintock opposes mail-in voting, saying in 2020 that it was a "corrupted process" that allows ballots to be sent to voters who have died or moved away.

Tom McClintock was married to Lori Tom McClintock until her death in December 2021, from dehydration due to gastroenteritis caused, according to a coroner's report, by "adverse effects of white mulberry leaf ingestion".