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.

Bill: 117-hres-937
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cawthorn, Madison [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2022-02-22
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
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Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: IV 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 937 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 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

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.