National Debt & Deficit Spending Why vote for me?
Our Congress Must Do Business Differently
This is what I will work to change in Congress:
I believe that the Congress, especially the House of Representatives, was designed to ride herd on the many bureaucracies they created and fund every year. That is why they were given first responsibility for revenue in our Constitution. Their terms were set at just 2 years so that the people could quickly change things when needed.
Congress can, and must, pay attention to how the Executive Branch actually implements the programs and laws it passes. When Congress does not, the courts must sort things out and though they do the best they can, they invariably satisfy few.
When a state must resort to taking the Federal Government to Court, that state's Congressional delegation is not doing its job.
I believe that over the last decade our Congress has strayed from the basic principles of the Republican Party. It will take much hard work but I intend to move things back toward that ideal of smaller government.
There are numerous tough decisions facing the Congress in how to recover from a very spendthrift period. In a 2006 speech, Senator McCain of Arizona described the Congress as spending money like a drunken sailor. He then said that they were worse than a drunken sailor.
There is a large bill coming due. This new Congress must begin to address this. It won't be easy. I believe that the record of the last few years shows that Congress must be changed for the American people to avoid decisions being forced on us.
National security is a primary responsibility of the Federal Government. Our borders are where this responsibility lies first and foremost. The 1986 Simpson Mazzoli Comprehensive Immigration Reform act provided the tools needed. Congress did not fund the Border Patrol and allied organizations properly and this legislation was not effectively implemented. It is imperative today that the United States has proper control of its borders. This is not a simple issue of "build a wall."
First things first: Illegal immigration cannot be brought under control until our borders are controlled. I will place the highest priority on fully funding these critical functions.
Second: this is also an issue of National Security.
Energy Costs are way too high. From home heating fuel to gasoline, petroleum companies have been forced to under develop refining capacity for several decades. When the Gulf Coast refineries shut down for hurricanes Rita & Katrina there was little surge capacity elsewhere in the United States and retail prices immediately rose.
We cannot preserve what we cannot protect. A strong economy is the foundation of our nation. We must preserve and protect our crown jewels and ensure that our environment is safely protected, but we cannot do this by ever greater restrictions on the availability of natural resources. Industry can, and should be required to, minimize its footprint as it recovers natural resources.
Energy drives the heartbeat of our economy.
The Democratic Party has captured hope from our party. A careful look at the"Liberal Ethos" shows, at it core, two things:
1st: we all need help & government is the best provider of such help.
2nd: people cannot be trusted to spend their money right taxation must be used to recover as much money as possible so that the government can spend it right.
There is a dismal endpoint to the liberal ethos. Republicans have allowed others to capture Hope as a campaign slogan with all its allure and glamour. Yet at their core they do not offer hope, but servitude.
Our Wyoming Republican Party publishes a card entitled:
I am a Republican Because
Two items on this card address the issue of hope:
These represent hope.1st item: I believe the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability, and responsibility must be honored.
2nd item: I believe government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
Republicans must go forward and demonstrate that hope resides within each person, their own get up & go, their own willingness to sweat, and their own inventiveness.
And that a person's best chance of achieving that is with Republicans.
We have work to do.