The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
From Dan Webster
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.
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