Issues
Fiscal Responsibility
Reducing spending, restoring Constitutional limits on the size of government, and balancing Washington's books are essential to our nation's future. A pivotal piece of accomplishing that goal is to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. I began this fight in the 1980's, in which we were able to secure the vote in the Senate but not in the House. In 1997, the Senate fell short of passing the Balanced Budget Amendment by one vote. This year, I have re-introduced the Balanced Budget Amendment and secured co-sponsorship from all 47 Senate Republicans. This is a fight worth fighting and I will not stop until we force Washington to follow the lead of every American family and live within its means.
In the meantime, we must cut back on the dangerous spending habits of the federal government. I have always maintained that we don't have a revenue problem in this country. We have a spending problem. The only way to reverse this fiscal train wreck is to rein in Washington's out of control expenditures. With a $14 trillion debt, the time is now to make the hard decisions that will put this country back on the right track.
