Many Seventh Graders I Know In Illinois, As Well As Around The Nation, Are Studying The Constitution. I Was Pretty Impressed With The Quality Of Education Our Children Are Receiving Because They Had Not Expected Me To Ask Them About It.
In Fact, 80 Percent Of Our Domestic Job Growth Comes From The Small- And Medium-sized Business Community.
The Budget Enforcement Rules Of The 1990s Were An Important Part Of Getting The Budget Back Into Balance. It Was Done On A Bipartisan Basis. Those Pay-as-you-go Rules Were Tested And They Worked. We Are Now In A One-party System, And We Have Thrown Them Out.
As A Member Of The House Committee On Small Business And Because Of My Own Experience As A Small Business Owner, I Am Appreciative Of The Impact These Small Businesses Have On Our Local Economies.
Taxpayers Should Not Be Coerced Into Giving Up Their Privacy Rights Just To File Their Taxes.
Identity Theft Is One Of The Fastest-growing Crimes In The Nation - Especially In The Suburbs.
Even The Best Data Security Systems Can't Protect Private Taxpayer Information From Entrepreneurial Foreign Businesses Than Can Make Huge Profits Selling U.s. Taxpayer Information.
The American People Expect More From Congress. They Expect Fiscal Responsibility And Common Sense. They Expect Us To Return To The Pay-as-you-go Budget Rules That We Had Enacted In The Past That Helped Us Establish A Surplus, However Briefly.
By Overhauling Current Rules And Speeding The Entry Of Competitors In The Market, We Encourage Competition And Provide Our Constituents With New Choices And Cheaper Bills.
As Part Of My Efforts To Fight Identity Theft, I Worked With My Colleagues On The Financial Services Committee To Strengthen Consumer Protection With A Reasonable Notification Requirement.
Under The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, Homes Are Independently Verified To Be Measurably More Energy Efficient Than Average Houses.
