Title: 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.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the duty of the federal government to carry out specified actions, including enacting a balanced budget amendment and abolishing the Department of Education.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 937 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 937

 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.


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                    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, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial 
 Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Armed 
Services, Natural Resources, 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 concerned

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                               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.

    (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 history of human civilization;
Whereas the Constitution of the United States, which has endured 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 
        independent constitutional republic;
Whereas the United States is built on the rule of law and institutional 
        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 
        identification; 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 individual liberty as evidenced by 
        the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and the success of free 
        market capitalism;
Whereas the United States helped bring an end to World War I, defeated 
        totalitarianism in World War II, implemented the Marshall Plan, and 
        defeated Soviet Communism 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 future freedom and prosperity, and 
        is the world's best hope for confronting 21st-century economic, 
        technological, social, 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, particularly 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 responsibility to create the 
        conditions for the creation of 21st-century jobs for American workers;
Whereas United States national security depends on its economic security, which 
        is imperiled by the Federal Government's unsustainable fiscal course and 
        national debt;
Whereas Congress should restore regular order, end the era of ``omnibus'' 
        spending bills, and aspire to consider legislation that addresses one 
        subject with one bill in a manner 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;
Whereas the problem in health care is not that the free market has failed; the 
        problem is it has never been tried;
Whereas patients in the United States are demanding freedom, 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 American 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 universal basic income is an 
        irresponsible tactic that delays reforms that can improve environmental 
        stewardship;
Whereas an ``all of the above'' energy policy that utilizes renewables, 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;
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 effective 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 principles 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 alliance 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
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 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 entitlement 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 manufacturing and 
        agriculture industry by incentivizing domestic production;
            (8) abolish the Department of Education;
            (9) establish the English language as the official language 
        of the United States;
            (10) downsize and consolidate nonessential and wasteful 
        functions of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, 
        Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, the 
        Interior, Labor, and Transportation and the Environmental 
        Protection Agency;
            (11) create a study to review all spending within 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 
        patriotic civil engagement;
            (12) recognize the past abuse that Directors of three 
        letter agencies have committed in order to prevent future abuse 
        of power;
            (13) impose term limits on Members of Congress, 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 employees;
            (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 individual insurance;
            (17) protect patients with preexisting conditions;
            (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 individuals 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;
            (22) guarantee health care choice for America's veterans;
            (23) expand the use and availability of telemedicine;
            (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 follow 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 Nation'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;
            (32) prevent future weapons bans by abolishing the outdated 
        National Firearms Act of 1934;
            (33) incentivize the use of modular nuclear reactors 
        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 Climate Agreement;
            (38) demand that China, the world's worst polluter, 
        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 National 
        Environmental Policy Act;
            (41) protect the United States access to critical minerals 
        to give the United States a global competitive 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 cities;
            (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 technological infrastructure by repairing 
        structurally deficient bridges, creating a technologically 
        sound 21st century highway system, and delivering broadband 
        access to rural areas and other underserved communities;
            (47) break up big tech monopolies and reform section 230 of 
        the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230);
            (48) deregulate cryptocurrencies and incentivize blockchain 
        innovation;
            (49) continue President Trump's work of rebuilding 
        America's military and prepare it to confront 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 investing 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 creating economic 
        opportunities.
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