Issue Position: Constitution

Issue Position

The fiscal time bomb is ticking: America suffers from sixty trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. Every family in America owes $500,000 in federal debt. The greatest nation on earth depends on foreign governments like China to loan us money so that we can meet our current obligations.

How did we get here? Quite simply, we have an attitude problem in Washington. Those who find the prospect of spending their lives in government attractive are also likely to have an inflated view of the role and importance of the state in American life - a view which cannot be reconciled with the government of limited powers governed by Constitution of the United States.

We need leaders who do not see the expansion of government as a solution to almost every problem. We need to rethink the endless and diffuse morass of programs. We need to return to constitutionally limited government.

The great challenges the United States now faces require, more than ever, that its government respect the boundaries set by the Constitution, so that it may focus more vigorously on its core functions.

Fortunately, the solution is straightforward, and in our hands: We can send to Congress leaders who are committed to constitutionally limited government.

As your Member of Congress, I pledge that, before voting on any proposed act, I will ask whether the exercise of power is actually authorized by the Constitution.

Heck, I will even support a commonsense measure that requires our Members of Congress to actually read every bill before they vote on it. Here is what we can expect:

* Make Congress deliberate before it acts.Congress will have to slow down. This means that Congress will give more careful consideration to how it spends your hard-earned tax dollars.

* Empower citizens to participate.Bills will shrink, be less complicated, and contain fewer subjects, so that We the People can actually read them, too.

* Stop the corrupt tit-for-tat Washington politics.Fewer bad proposals will be passed due to "log-rolling."

* Restore transparency and integrity to spending.No more secret clauses or pork-barrel earmarks will be inserted into bills at the last moment.

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