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Back to the BasicsBy Congressman Mike Rogers, Section News
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The trampling of the Constitution by Washington over the last few years has resulted in an explosion of federal spending on new programs that have added to the massive national deficit.
The United States needs to return to the vision of the Founding Fathers as outlined in the Constitution and return to a limited federal government. The vision that they wisely set forth created a foundation for the establishment of the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
Programs like the new $2 trillion government takeover of health care clearly overreaches the boundaries of the Constitution by forcing individuals to either buy a product or pay a tax. America's founding document granted a limited role for government in the lives of American citizens. The American people sent an unmistakable message to Washington in November that they were tired of the federal government spending money that our nation does not have and the ever-expanding reach of the government intrusion into their everyday lives. They were particularly tired of those elected officials that ignore the Tenth Amendment, which holds that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The new Congress has pledged to uphold the framework of that sacred document by requiring that every bill introduced must be accompanied by a statement of the power under the Constitution that would authorize the enactment of that bill. To further demonstrate to the American people that this new Congress is serious about our founding principles, one of the first orders of business was to have Members read out loud the entire text of the Constitution today on the House floor. There is no doubt that the Constitution will guide the work of the 112th Congress and any bill that it passes. Beyond changing how Congress works, we plan to aggressively oversee the activities of the administration to determine whether it is overstepping Constitutional boundaries as well. I am committed to being fair in my conduct of oversight, but there is little doubt that the American people want the federal government to live within its means and by the rules of our founding. I believe as a new day dawns in Washington, the federal government can and will return to the core values and vision of the Founding Fathers so that "We the People" can reclaim our nation's greatness.
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