My arrival in Congress is not going to make Gavin Newsom’s life easier. Quite the contrary. When someone sent me his Inaugural Address last Friday, at first I thought it was a parody. Newsom called California the “true freedom state,” offering a litany of unhinged attacks on “red state politicians.” Delusional doesn’t even begin to […]
At 1:54 AM Saturday morning, I was finally sworn in as a Member of the United States House of Representatives. The week did not exactly go as planned – from small things, like the word California being mis-spelled on the sign outside my office, to the larger matter of the swearing-in itself. All incoming Members
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I have to admit, I’ve been impatient this month. My term in the Assembly ended on November 30 and I don’t become a Member of Congress until January 3. It’s been frustrating to watch as the lame-duck Congress passed the Obscene Omnibus, a $1.7-trillion, 4,155-page slap-in-the-face to Americans who voted for change. The bill even
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On January 3, I will be sworn in to the 118th Congress as part of a new Republican Majority in the House of Representatives. With the reign of Nancy Pelosi over at last, several changes will be made immediately. On Day 1, we will reopen the U.S. Capitol to the public. We will end remote
One month after Election Day, California is finally done counting votes. We received 181,438 of them, more than any Republican running for Congress in California. As the decisive 218th race called, we “essentially fired Nancy Pelosi from her job as Speaker of the House.” This is a tribute to what made our campaign unique: a
I write to you from Washington, D.C., where the Committee on House Administration has summoned me for mandatory orientation for new Members of Congress. Yet I still have not officially been declared Congressman-elect. In fact, little has changed since Election Day: 25,000 more votes are in, and our lead remains at 6 percent. Incredibly, around
Heavy rain and snow are expected across the state on Election Day. And the Newsom/Biden camps are openly celebrating. After all the lectures about “voter access” and “protecting democracy,” they are downright giddy at the prospect of people being deterred from voting by inclement weather. Of course, they’re kidding themselves: we will not be deterred.
Last night, Gavin Newsom graced the Twitter-verse with this gem: No one could figure out what he was talking about. But let’s take his advice. Let’s look at the facts. FACT: Newsom opposed my bill to suspend the gas tax and the Supermajority killed it at his behest. FACT: California’s 54-cent gas tax is the
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The head of the National Teachers Union, a close Biden and Newsom ally, is asking for “amnesty” for all COVID era crimes – namely, keeping schools closed and kids miserable. This was not an apology. She simply demanded there be no accountability for the most catastrophic policy mistake of our time, one carried out for
Last week, the CDC added COVID-19 vaccines to the “recommended immunization schedules” for children. The stakes in the midterm elections are now even higher. Importantly, CDC Board Members emphasized that the decision itself is not a mandate: “The decision around school entrance for vaccines rests where it did before, which is with the state level, the county
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