Getting Federal Spending Under Control

• Cosponsor of the federal Balanced Budget Amendment.

• Cosponsor of legislation to bring greater transparency to the earmarking process.

• Voted for the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to slow the growth of mandatory programs.

• Supports caps on discretionary spending to promote fiscal discipline.

• Consistently votes for across-the-board cuts in many annual spending bills to lower overall federal spending.

• Voted against “emergency” supplemental appropriations bills that contained wasteful or non-emergency spending the busts spending caps.



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