Dear Friend:
Would you believe me if I told you our nation’s most important laws are created by a handful of elite liberal politicians and most Members of Congress never read them before voting?
It’s true: legislation is often produced in secret by a handful of liberal leaders and handed to Congress without anything close to enough time to read it in full.
I will never vote to pass a new law without reading it first. If liberal leaders insist on producing 900 page bills in secret and give us less than a day to read it before we have to vote, I will vote NO every time.
The so-called Cap and Trade legislation is a good example of this drive-through legislative process. In the middle of the night, liberal leaders presented Congress with an enormous bill we had no time to read in full, but even a cursory skim showed they were advocating massive tax increases that would raise energy prices by as much as 30 percent on families and small businesses. Their plan would have cost Pennsylvanians as many as 66,000 jobs when we already are in the worst recession in a generation.
I’ve done more than oppose Cap and Trade; I’ve offered a solution – an “all of the above” energy plan I introduced with colleagues in June. This plan gives incentives for renewable and alternative energy sources and builds 100 new nuclear reactors in the next twenty years. It encourages exploration and development of offshore oil and natural gas resources and puts some of the federal revenues from those resources to help develop and use new, clean energy technologies.
The current situation cannot stand – we need a comprehensive energy solution, and one that protects jobs while lowering the prices of gasoline, home heating oil, and natural gas for families, farmers, and small businesses.
An even bigger issue is one I am very familiar with – health care reform. As a recreational and physical therapist for 28 years, I am well-acquainted with the challenges our families and health care providers face and am committed to finding a solution where everybody wins.
Currently, elite liberal leaders have presented a plan that creates a government-run health care system that could lead to tens of millions of Americans losing their coverage, rations care (especially for senior citizens), taxes individuals and small businesses at a punitive rate, and will add hundreds of billions of dollars to our enormous national debt.
The liberal plan does not meet the criteria I have set for health-care reform including better access, better quality, patient-centered care, and choice. I will vote against it in September.
I support a plan that increases access to insurance and health care for small businesses and families, implements comprehensive medical liability reform, provides government with additional authority and resources to stop waste and abuse (when they are not causing it), reduces the number of uninsured Americans by at least ten million, and most important, expands choice and quality of care.
Even though I am only in my first year in Congress, I believe my efforts have had the effect of changing the debate on these two issues. Pennsylvanians want change, but they want the kind of change that leads to jobs, energy security, and family security, not debt and bureaucracy.
I will continue to fight for those changes, and, I assure you, I will read every proposed law before I vote to pass it.
Before long, the next election will be upon us. Already, I have seen signs special-interest groups who support the kind of elitist legislation I described above are working to defeat me. The only people on my side are families and small business owners like you.
You have already done so much to help me; can you do so once again?
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Thank you again for your support.
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