When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
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