McClintock is the representative for California’s 5th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. McClintock is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 66 years old.
He was previously the representative for California’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 2009 to 2022.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
McClintock was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, McClintock joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA5]](/static/legislator-photos/412295-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for McClintock.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
McClintock is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills McClintock has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 27, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Tom McClintock sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
McClintock was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 211 (117th): Big Cat Public Safety Act
- H.R. 258 (116th): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for medical services provided in units of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 381 (115th): To designate a mountain in the John Muir Wilderness of the Sierra National Forest as “Sky Point”.
- H.R. 3079 (114th): To take certain Federal land located in Tuolumne County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 2388 (113th): To take certain Federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and for other …
- H.R. 3892 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8771 Auburn Folsom Road in Roseville, California, as the “Lance Corporal Victor A. Dew Post …
- H.R. 3319 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, California, as the “Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery Post …
Does 7 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
McClintock sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (28%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) International Affairs (14%) Water Resources Development (14%) Environmental Protection (10%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Transportation and Public Works (7%) Agriculture and Food (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
McClintock recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1642: To amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for an annual …
- H.R. 1555: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2300 …
- H.R. 934: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out activities to suppress wildfires, …
- H.Res. 100: Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desire for a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear …
- H.R. 519: Yosemite National Park Equal Access and Fairness Act
- H.R. 518: Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act of 2023
- H.R. 520: To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that artificially propagated …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2009 to Mar 2023, McClintock missed 92 of 9,118 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
