Tom McClintock

GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes

2013-05-09 18:29:00

WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...

The wrong way for Washington to avoid defaulting

2013-05-08 06:00:00

It's rare that the president explicitly pledges to veto a bill -- usually, the White House says the president's advisors would "recommend" a veto -- but that's what happened Tuesday. The measure in question is HR 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, by...

House finally OKs Sandy aid; Senate action expected soon

2013-01-15 17:43:00

WASHINGTON--Seventy-eight days after Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast, the House on Tuesday approved $50.5 billion in disaster relief in a vote that exposed divisions within Republican ranks and foreshadowed the spending fights that lie ahead.�...

Stockton Sikh temple's 100th anniversary noted in Congress

2012-11-13 13:54:00

McManus: The death of the moderate Republican

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. "We have the second-largest Republican House...

Ugly battles on every front in GOP gubernatorial race

2010-05-23 00:00:00

California GOP governor's race I -- Tom Campbell

2009-09-28 16:34:27

Global Warming: Ballot initiative would curb California efforts

2010-01-25 04:32:57

Bipartisan Benedict Arnold

2007-06-23 00:00:00

OF ALL THE buzzwords in politics that have taken on a life of their own, "bipartisanship" is, without a doubt, the most overrated and misunderstood. A spot-on example of the absurd "bipartisan" folly transpired this week at a USC-sponsored conference...

For state GOP, November may be the cruelest month

2008-02-24 00:00:00

In a city where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces criticism for not being liberal enough, California Republicans gathered this weekend to repair deep divides over how to appeal to an electorate that continues to trend away from the steady diet of...

Auburn Dam may really be dead this time

2008-11-16 00:00:00

Use it or lose it is the rule of California water rights, and after 43 years, the would-be Auburn Dam -- subject of one of the state's bitterest water feuds -- is about to lose it. The proposed plug on the gold-sprinkled American River northeast of...

Redestricting a Democratic supermajority

2007-09-30 00:00:00

Redistricting reform is almost certainly dead for the rest of this decade. After all the hype that this was the year that Sacramento lawmakers would finally relinquish their power to draw the state's congressional and legislative districts -- and hand...

Jim Brulte, the new leader of the California Republican Party, places a campaign sticker on GOP Rep. Tom McClintock, at the California Republican Party convention on Saturday.

2013-03-02 00:00:00

California State Senator Tom McClintock, candidate for Lt. Governor, arrives at the Beverly Hilton with his son, Justin, left, for election-night activities.

2006-11-07 17:43:06

An upbeat California State Senator Tom McClintock, candidate for Lt. Governor, waits to be interviewed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

2006-11-07 00:00:00