IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 937 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to preserve liberty by oper-
ating within the enumerated powers in the Constitution of the United 
States and its founding principles. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 22, 2022 
Mr. CAWTHORN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees 
on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Edu-
cation and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure, Veterans’ Affairs, Armed Services, Natural Re-
sources, Rules, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to preserve 
liberty by operating within the enumerated powers in 
the Constitution of the United States and its founding 
principles. 
Whereas the following 10 pillars are the most essential and 
impactful policy issues to the American people: 
(1) Government spending. 
(2) Economy. 
(3) Government reform. 
(4) Health care. 
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(5) Education. 
(6) Culture and family unit. 
(7) Energy and environment. 
(8) Immigration. 
(9) Technical innovation. 
(10) Defense and veterans. 
Whereas the United States is the greatest, most benevolent, 
most prosperous, and most successful country in the his-
tory of human civilization; 
Whereas the Constitution of the United States, which has en-
dured for nearly a quarter of a millennium, is a towering 
and unparalleled achievement that has made the United 
States the world’s oldest democracy and oldest inde-
pendent constitutional republic; 
Whereas the United States is built on the rule of law and in-
stitutional equality; 
Whereas the rights of the people of the United States derive 
from natural law and are transcendent and inalienable; 
our rights do not derive from any temporal authority, 
government, national origin, or any racial or ethnic iden-
tification; this vision is as revolutionary today as it was 
almost 250 years ago; 
Whereas the United States tradition of principled pluralism 
has allowed it to become a bastion of civil rights and in-
dividual liberty as evidenced by the abolition of slavery, 
women’s suffrage, and the success of free market cap-
italism; 
Whereas the United States helped bring an end to World 
War I, defeated totalitarianism in World War II, imple-
mented the Marshall Plan, and defeated Soviet Com-
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munism in the Cold War, making America and the world 
more free, prosperous, and secure; 
Whereas the United States constitutional Government and 
the free enterprise system it enables is the key to our fu-
ture freedom and prosperity, and is the world’s best hope 
for confronting 21st-century economic, technological, so-
cial, and political challenges; 
Whereas no economic system has lifted more people out of 
poverty than the free enterprise system; 
Whereas Socialist policies have failed catastrophically, par-
ticularly in United States cities, and inflicted enormous 
economic pain and injustice on predominantly middle to 
lower income families and minority communities; 
Whereas policymakers have a moral and institutional respon-
sibility to create the conditions for the creation of 21st- 
century jobs for American workers; 
Whereas United States national security depends on its eco-
nomic security, which is imperiled by the Federal Govern-
ment’s unsustainable fiscal course and national debt; 
Whereas Congress should restore regular order, end the era 
of ‘‘omnibus’’ spending bills, and aspire to consider legis-
lation that addresses one subject with one bill in a man-
ner that it is targeted, transparent, and comprehensible 
to the public; 
Whereas the House of Representatives is the People’s House 
and should be accessible and open to ensure that every 
citizen has a right to petition their government; 
Whereas the United States health care system is operating 
within an antiquated regulatory framework created in 
1942 that is incompatible with the 21st-century economy; 
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Whereas the problem in health care is not that the free mar-
ket has failed; the problem is it has never been tried; 
Whereas patients in the United States are demanding free-
dom, choice, and control; 
Whereas socialized, government-run health care systems like 
those in the United Kingdom would be cruelly inefficient 
and lead to rationing; 
Whereas the reckless, irresponsible, and ineffective Green 
New Deal suggests a permanent lockdown on the Amer-
ican economy not unlike the economic duress of COVID– 
19, grant Communist China a competitive advantage, and 
inflict injustice on American communities through higher 
energy prices all while doing nothing to reduce global 
temperatures; 
Whereas using concerns about climate to advance unrelated 
Socialist goals like government-run health care and uni-
versal basic income is an irresponsible tactic that delays 
reforms that can improve environmental stewardship; 
Whereas an ‘‘all of the above’’ energy policy that utilizes re-
newables, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels is superior to 
an ‘‘everything but’’ policy that naively and dangerously 
undermines American energy independence; 
Whereas hydraulic fracking, a private sector innovation, has 
done more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than any 
other innovation or government regulation in the past 
two decades; 
Whereas free economies are clean economies; 
Whereas central planning traps people in poverty and slows 
innovation; 
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Whereas a carbon tax is a coercive and counterproductive 
government mechanism that would delay the development 
and deployment of clean energy technology; 
Whereas the Democrats’ climate alarmism is intellectually 
dishonest based on their unwillingness to take immediate 
action; 
Whereas the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and 
free expression of thought are essential to developing ef-
fective policies that advance the public good and facilitate 
the peaceful resolution of conflict; 
Whereas illiberalism or ‘‘cancel culture’’ is anti-intellectual, 
anti-American, and a rejection of the foundational prin-
ciples of pluralism; 
Whereas the Second Amendment was created to protect the 
First Amendment; 
Whereas failing schools for American children is the foremost 
civil liberties issue in American society, and parents must 
have the right to choose the best educational opportunity 
for their own child; 
Whereas China is set to overtake the United States as the 
global leader in key categories if the United States fails 
to advance a bold freedom agenda; 
Whereas China is actively working to build a strategic alli-
ance with totalitarian and antidemocratic states like Iran, 
Russia, and North Korea; and 
Whereas the Democrats’ failed border policy is a threat to 
the Nation’s security and the rule of law: Now, therefore, 
be it 
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Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that it is the duty of the Federal Government 
to— 
(1) create a commission modeled after the Base 
Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) to 
reduce government spending by one-third by 2031, 
consistent with the findings of President Reagan’s 
Grace Commission report that declared one-third of 
government spending is wasteful; 
(2) enact a balanced budget amendment; 
(3) turnaround the mismanagement of Social 
Security, because Americans want to help the needy 
by incentivizing people to work and get off entitle-
ment programs; 
(4) abolish the income tax and direct the Ways 
and Means Committee to develop a replacement 
based on a consumption tax or flat tax by 2026; 
(5) expand Opportunity Zones; 
(6) demand instant COVID compensation from 
Communist China based on an economic analysis of 
lost public and private sector revenue; 
(7) promote and celebrate the American manu-
facturing and agriculture industry by incentivizing 
domestic production; 
(8) abolish the Department of Education; 
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(9) establish the English language as the offi-
cial language of the United States; 
(10) downsize and consolidate nonessential and 
wasteful functions of the Departments of Agri-
culture, Commerce, Energy, Health and Human 
Services, Housing and Urban Development, the Inte-
rior, Labor, and Transportation and the Environ-
mental Protection Agency; 
(11) create a study to review all spending with-
in Federal agencies in order to cut outrageous waste 
and spending and reallocating a portion of those 
funds to localized nonprofits dedicated to fighting 
the opioid epidemic, promoting entrepreneurship 
within the veteran community, and promoting patri-
otic civil engagement; 
(12) recognize the past abuse that Directors of 
three letter agencies have committed in order to pre-
vent future abuse of power; 
(13) impose term limits on Members of Con-
gress, such as six terms for Members of the House 
of Representatives and two terms for Senators, to 
incentivize long-term and strategic policymaking; 
(14) impose term limits on Federal career em-
ployees; 
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(15) ensure all congressional bills move through 
proper order in their respective committees, that all 
amendments are germane, and that there is only one 
subject matter per one bill; 
(16) protect employer-sponsored insurance from 
single-payer, government-run health care schemes 
that would abolish employer-sponsored as well as in-
dividual insurance; 
(17) protect patients with preexisting condi-
tions; 
(18) require price transparency; 
(19) end America’s 80-year discrimination 
against self-employed workers by equalizing the tax 
treatment of health care purchased by such individ-
uals and employer-provided healthcare, by providing 
generous subsidies, offset by cuts to government 
waste, through States allowing individuals to shop 
for their own health insurance and choose their own 
doctors; 
(20) preserve health care freedom and choice 
and expand health savings accounts; 
(21) end monopolies in the health care system 
and among hospitals by unleashing individual choice 
and free market competition; 
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(22) guarantee health care choice for America’s 
veterans; 
(23) expand the use and availability of tele-
medicine; 
(24) ensure that parents rights are upheld, that 
parents can decide what school system is best for 
their child, and that the Federal funding should fol-
low the student to whichever education institution 
the student attends without stipulation; 
(25) prevent taxpayer dollars from funding 
anti-American critical race theory; 
(26) create a study and analysis that document 
decades of failed progressive governance in our Na-
tion’s urban centers; 
(27) prevent Federal funding for cities that 
have defunded their police and law enforcement; 
(28) recognize that life begins at conception; 
(29) enact a parental bill of rights; 
(30) make ‘‘political affiliation’’ protected from 
workplace discrimination; 
(31) protect individual Americans from violence 
by recognizing that every American who can legally 
own a firearm has the ability to carry and conceal 
firearms in every State without a permit; 
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(32) prevent future weapons bans by abolishing 
the outdated National Firearms Act of 1934; 
(33) incentivize the use of modular nuclear re-
actors through expedited permitting; 
(34) incorporate underutilized hydropower into 
our energy grid; 
(35) invest in basic research and development 
to accelerate the development and deployment of 
breakthrough technologies using an ‘‘all of the above 
energy’’ strategy; 
(36) immediately resume work on the Keystone 
pipeline; 
(37) immediately withdraw from the Paris Cli-
mate Agreement; 
(38) demand that China, the world’s worst pol-
luter, dismantle concentration camps, grant free 
speech rights to religious and political minorities, 
and offer a formal apology for the Tiananmen 
Square massacre; 
(39) impose tariffs on Chinese goods that are 
produced under conditions that violate American 
clean air standards; 
(40) reform the outdated and cumbersome Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act; 
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(41) protect the United States access to critical 
minerals to give the United States a global competi-
tive edge; 
(42) end the Democrats’ irresponsible border 
policies, complete President Trump’s border wall, 
and reassert President Reagan’s vision of a ‘‘shining 
city on a hill’’ that includes both walls and doors for 
those who want to enter our country legally; 
(43) prohibit Federal funding to sanctuary cit-
ies; 
(44) focus on fighting human trafficking; 
(45) formally recognize the independence and 
sovereignty of Taiwan; 
(46) use a portion of savings generated from 
the BRAC-style government downsize commission to 
upgrade our Nation’s transportation and techno-
logical infrastructure by repairing structurally defi-
cient bridges, creating a technologically sound 21st 
century highway system, and delivering broadband 
access to rural areas and other underserved commu-
nities; 
(47) break up big tech monopolies and reform 
section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 230); 
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(48) deregulate cryptocurrencies and incentivize 
blockchain innovation; 
(49) continue President Trump’s work of re-
building America’s military and prepare it to con-
front 21st-century threats; 
(50) immediately return war making powers to 
Congress; 
(51) position our military to dominate air, land, 
sea, and space by upgrading existing assets and in-
vesting in cyber, artificial intelligence, hypersonic 
weapons, and the Space Force; and 
(52) prioritize getting our veterans back to 
work and easing the transition from military life to 
civilian life through fellowship programs and by cre-
ating economic opportunities. 
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