Tom McClintock

Republican · CA-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Thomas Miller McClintock II is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. His district stretches from the Sacramento suburbs to the outer suburbs of Fresno; it includes Yosemite National Park. A member of the Republican Party, McClintock served as a California state assemblyman from 1982 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2000, when he became a California state senator, a position he held until 2008. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 election.

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Record of service

In office: 17.6 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 70 of 437 by time served
Age: 70

District offices

Modesto, CA · 209-550-6910
El Dorado Hills, CA · 916-786-5560

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

−$396k

2020

−$471k

2021

−$408k

2022

−$771k

2023

−$396k

2024

−$353k

2025

−$428k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $24k – $85k
Liabilities: $315k – $650k
Net worth: −$626k – −$230k
Since 2019: −$33k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported

Wells Fargo Bank$15k – $50k

California Legislators' Retirement System$5k – $15k

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation Common Stock (BK)$1k – $15k

California Public Employee Retirement System$3k – $5k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.64

Healthcare

R+0.68

Immigration & Border

R+0.98

Guns

R+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.98

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.60

Economy & Labor

R+0.73

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.64

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.32

Education

R+0.79

Government & Democracy

R+0.82

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Tom McClintock's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

64%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Tom McClintock (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where McClintocksits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Federal Lands Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
The Constitution and Limited Government Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement (Chair)

Most and least aligned members

Treating McClintock's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.