James, you contradict yourself in your letter. Did he vote for or against the Medicare premium increases? Since Medicare premiums ARE going UP and he voted with the minority he must have been AGAINST the increase in Premiums. Does that make sense? I hope you were not that confused when you cast your vote.

McClintock calling a meeting to discuss water issues is like Tony Soprano asking businesses to attend a insurance meeting for protection of their businesses. Anything he touches is touched for the benefit on those who have purchased his services through donations to his campaign. Check who donated to his campaign and you will see who McClintock serves ... and only them. As long as Ca-04 voters elect professional pols concerned only with sucking a living from the public trough while denouncing government, the great irony, we will get people like him working directly against the welfare of us, the people.

McClintock is a man of principles. Its rare that a politician acts as he believes things should be, regardless of his party affiliation. He actually does what he thinks is in the best interest of the nation.

Now, some people might disagree with him, others might agree. That is not really within his area of concern.

The left hates him because he is a common-sense guy who sees our nation as significantly off the left shoulder of the road and wants to bring it back to a constitutional republic.

James: A lot of the time members on both sides of the aisle vote against what are thought to be politically correct or publicly correct bills. Why? it is not that they do not like the proposed legislation it is because of all the PORK "rider" bills that are attached to the main body of the legislation that the person is voting against

Nov 7, 2009, (Saturday, yesterday ) McClintock voted No on :

HR 3737 NO- Small Business Microlending Expansion Act of 2009 -- which passed 405 to 23

HR 1838 NO- To amend Small Business Act to modify it for women, speed up disbursements of money granted -- passed 428 to 4

HR 1845 NO - Small Business Development Centers Modernization Act of 2009 -- which passed 412 to 20

required schools that got SBA grants to be accredited, eliminates matching fund requirement in disaster areas, makes them give access to credit and capital, training and assistance, green entrepreneurs training, fees assessed can't be considered matching funds, authorized appropriations for the SBDC program for FY 2010 - 2011

Why does McClintock hate Small Businesses ? This bill was sponsored by a Republican.

continuing:

H Resolution 903 NO should the House consider the HR 3962 bill, and should the House consider HR 3961 (health care bills) there were 2 procedural votes McClintock voted NO on

Amendment 1 to HR 3962

Amendment 2 to HR 3962 McClintock finally manages to choke out 2 YES votes which are attempts with amendments to derail the Health insurance reform bill that is coming up later Saturday evening. One is the usual pandering to the anti abortion crowd and not only duplicates existing law, it contradicts it and will be thrown out in court.

HR 3962 NO vote on final Health insurance reform bill which passed 220 …

against stopping--means not for stopping-- which means letting them rise

so McClintock voted for increases in Medicare premiums

anyway the man is a died in the wool neo con...to his credit I believe the guy sticks to his ideals--he just was absent the day the teacher talked about horizontal and vertical economics

you know--horizontal where you have a level playing field for competition

vertical-where you have the whole thing wrapped from raw materials to market thereby eliminating competition

Oct 15 2009

HR 2442 Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Expansion Act, passed 241 to 173

McClintock voted NO

way to go, Sparky McTeabag. They're having a drought and want to conserve water. You don't think that's a good idea

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Oct 22 2009

HR 3585 Solar Technology Roadmap Act , passed

McClintock voted NO

just because Sunlight is cheap and plentiful, doesn't mean we should be smart enough to use it to make electricity

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Oct 27 2009 HR 2489 National Land Remote Sensing Outreach act, passed 379 to 33

McClintock voted NO

we don't need no stinkin' terrain maps for the US Geological Survey (like for... forest fires ? )

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HR 2892 Appropriations for Homeland Security

June 24 2009 House vote -- passed 389 to 37

McClintock voted NO

comes back to the House on Oct 15 after being reconciled with Senate -- McClintock voted NO on that, too -- passed 307 to 114

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HR 2996 Appropriations for the Department of the Interior 2010

not that the state of CA doesn't have any federal land holdings that would affect our state's revenues

June 26 2009 McClintock votes NO passed 254 to 173

Oct 29 2009 McClintock votes NO passed 247 to 178 when the final version comes back from being reconciled with the Senate

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Nov 6 2009

HR 2868 Chemical Facility Anti Terrorism Act of 2009 passed 230 to 193

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to enhance the security of public water systems, and to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment works, and for other purposes.

McClintock voted NO

YS, McClintock may be common but I haven't seen him display any sense yet.

Well, no wonder I couldn't find the Medicare vote on the clerk.House.gov roll call pages , it was in late Sept, that's 2 months back.

HR 3631 Medicare Premium Fairness Act 24 September 2009 54 co sponsors

To provide for a consistant Medicare part B premium for all Medicare beneficiaries in a budget neutral manner for 2010. Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act w/ respect to part B premium, makes such premium the same as in 2009 (Prevents increase in Medicare premium)

Passed 406 to 18 in addition to 245 Democrats, 161 Republicans voted YES

McClintock voted NO with the 17 others -- that would have let the premiums rise

Rather amazing behavior considering all the Teabaggers are retired folks using that dreadful socialized government, taxpayer funded MEDICARE - except the ones on socialized government, taxpayer funded VA care.

But Sparky McTeabag voted to let their premiums go up, knowing the Democrats and the sane Republicans would save his butt, so he could go on making up stories about how he's so concerned about them.

roll call vote #737

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A list of roll call votes of the HOUSE, 111th Congress, for the month of Sept 2009 can be found here

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/ROLL_700.asp

Tom is not a republican, he belongs to the party of "NO". Forget the facts he doesn't use them.

What so many of you seem to forget is that Tom has actually read the Constitution. Congress is limited as to what it can do. If the Constitution does not allow Congress to act on something, Tom votes against it. Wish there were 434 others just like him and we would not be in the mess we are in today.

C-R, I'm confused. Medicare premiums are going up. If McClintock voted with the minority how can it be that he was for the increased premiums. You would think that the majority was for the increase and the 18 were against it. Not kidding, maybe I'm missing something here.

You missed something there. If they had not voted yes, the premiums would have gone up for the oldest people in the system who could have afforded it the least. The yes vote was to give Med

James, YOU are an extremist. McClintock is here to stay. :)

The district has no representative in Congress until he's gone.

McTeabag is only concerned with his own grandstanding. Fortunately he's irrelevant and would be considered a lunatic once let out of his gilded RussoMarsh cage.

He is OUR representative, thank you. :)

well, McClintock has a few more years to prove himself as the complete irrelevancy that he his--but, gosh, he's our representative. The best thing about him being in Washington is that he is at least not in the state government where he could actually do more damage with adding his idiological idiocy to the state level.

Oh, maybe those who love him will want him to run for president with Sarah Palin. If life was only about late night TV and Leno etc making jokes I would definitely vote for them.

But when you consider that they are actually probably certifiably crazy and there are real people who would suffer and die just so they can grandstand and showboat then you just have to run outside and throw up.

Letter From Rep. McClintock

In a recent letter, James Shaw of Rocklin calls me an “extremist” because I was one of 18 members of the House who voted “against stopping Medicare premium increases.” Here’s the rest of the story.

Last year, the cost of living adjustment for Social Security did not rise as fast as the premium increase for Medicare part B. As a result, some Medicare beneficiaries (principally those individuals earning over $85,000 or couples earning over $170,000) will see Medicare cost rise between $6 and $16 per month. HR 3631 would reach into the pockets of working families (about $37 for an average family of four) to pay the difference for these high-income seniors.

Among the 17 “extremists” who joined me in opposing the measure was Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md), who pointed out that Ross Perot and Members of Congress covered by Medicare would have their premiums protected at the expense of families struggling to get by.

Thank you, BillGeorge, for exposing the ignorance and lies of so many of the posters here. We, unfortunately, have a few extremists from the way out left that continually make fools of themselves by “attempting” to bash McClintok at every opportunity. Don’t forget to brush your teeth, progressives4values. :)

Bill George, unfortunately your employer has lied so much in the past about how much things would cost, as he is doing here YET AGAIN, that he doesn't have any credibility.

I am looking at the text of the actual bill. Do you need a calculator ?

Hoyer is a Blue Dog, who takes funding from traditionally Republican funding sources, in an effort to make nice with them. He knew it was a throwaway vote for his side which meant nothing, and he knew that the Republicans he voted with, would turn around and stab the other party in the back at their first opportunity, as is their wont. Nothing new there.

…and there you have it, BillGeorge. Gee, It’s okay for Obama and the far Left to continually lie about what programs will cost. CR is the most partisan of them all, nothing new here. Talk about losing credibility :)