The United States is over $34 trillion in debt and counting. Few in Washington, D.C. know what it means to adhere to, or even make, a budget. The Congressional budgeting and spending process is broken, hijacked by reckless spending and borrowing. We are not taxed too little; we spend too much.
As your representative, I have rejected budget and spending bills which provide unchecked growth in deficit spending and am pushing for institutional reforms in the House which reaffirms our power of the purse in a manner which allows the American people and their representatives to regain control over our fiscal health.
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Bureaucratic red tape and outdated federal regulations stifle the economic potential of tribal lands. Indian tribes deserve the flexibility to use their lands the way they see fit.
As chair of the Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee, I seek to provide them with this long-overdue freedom.