An Agenda Worth Supporting

by John Hawkins | March 1, 2006 4:08 am

Mike Pence’s Republican Study Committee[1], one of the groups in Congress that really looks out for conservative interests, has announced their “Top Ten” legislative priorities for 2006. They are as follows:

1. Make the Tax Cuts Permanent, including the repeal of the marriage-tax penalty and the death tax and pass fundamental tax reform.

2. Pass Budget Process Reform, which includes budgeting for emergencies with a rainy day fund, instituting a sunset commission for federal programs, instituting a constitutional line-item veto, and making the budget resolution carry the force of law.

3. Pass another Deficit Reduction Bill in the form of budget reconciliation, to reign in autopilot spending, which has risen from 25% of all federal spending in 1963 to 54% today, and is expected to reach nearly 60% in 2014.

4. Pass Ethics Reform that requires transparency and earmark reform that permits Members of Congress to strike earmarks on the House floor.

5. Pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, to ensure that marriage, the union of a woman and a man as husband and wife, is not redefined by activist judges.

6. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to put our fiscal house in order.

7. Offset all emergency supplemental spending with spending reductions and offset all new programs with simultaneous, equivalent reductions in, or eliminations of, existing programs.

8. Defend the Sanctity of Human Life, which includes banning all human cloning, passing the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, promoting ethical adult stem cell research, and preventing federal funding for destructive embryonic stem cell research.

9. Pass Protections for Religious Freedom, such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and religious expression in the public square.

10. Pass legislation that stops the raid on the Social Security Trust Fund and allows Americans to own a Personal Social Security Account.

Some of these items are unlikely to make it through and I’d like to see something dealing with illegal immigration on there, but otherwise this is an excellent agenda that’s well worth pursuing.

It’s also nice to see conservatives putting their agenda up front, unlike the Democrats who simply seize whatever they think the issue du jour is while doing their best to hide many of the legislative priorities nearest and dearest to their hearts from the public.

Hat tip to The Corner[2] for the story.

Endnotes:
  1. Republican Study Committee: http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/
  2. The Corner: http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_26_corner-archive.asp#091204

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