Issue Position: Deficit Reduction

Issue Position

Fighting Government Waste and Reducing the Deficit

Long before it was politically fashionable, Dick sought bipartisan cooperation to reduce wasteful spending and bring down the federal deficit. In his early career as a congressman from Springfield, Dick held up a spending bill to force party leaders to seriously consider the deficit, and crafted a compromise to cut 10% from the Agriculture Budget, much of it "political lard," according to the Chicago Tribune. Recently, he was a member of the "Gang of Six" senators from both parties who worked together to craft a major compromise package that would reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion. He voted "yes" as a member of the President's Simpson-Bowles Commission and continues to work with his colleagues to put our economy back on sound footing.

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