Jobs & Economy
- Pass legislation that promotes economic growth - including making tax cuts permanent.
- Strengthen Social Security.
- Strengthen high schools to prepare Americans for jobs in the 21st Century.
Strength & Security
- Support increased base pay for service members and health care benefits for veterans.
- Stand with President Bush on increased defense spending that better prepares and protects our military.
- Show support for the President’s improvements in Homeland Security to defend our country.
Tax Reform
- Reform the tax code to ensure a simpler, fairer and more pro-growth system.
- Restrain spending by the Federal Government.
- Make tax cuts permanent for individuals and small businesses.
Education
- Support a new high school initiative to help states hold high schools accountable for teaching all students.
- Promote accelerated mathematics and science achievement for all secondary students, and especially low-achieving students.
- Accelerate student achievement with Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and State Scholars.
Social Security
- Fix Social Security now to avoid dramatically higher taxes, massive new borrowing or sudden and severe cuts in Social Security benefits or other government programs.
- Reform Social Security for America’s younger workers - our children and grandchildren.
- Remind your elected officials that Social Security cannot afford to continue paying benefits with the current pay-as-you-go system.
Nominations
- Appoint judges who strictly interpret the law.
- Oppose the unprecedented use of Senate filibusters.
- Fix the broken nomination process.
Immigration Reform
- Stand with President Bush in his efforts to protect the homeland by controlling the borders.
- Protect the rights of legal immigrants and match willing workers with willing employers.
- Support incentives for temporary workers to return to their home countries and families.
Faith & Values
- Fight to ensure that faith-based and community charities can participate in Federal, state, and local programs.
- Support President Bush's Access to Recovery program, a proposed three-year, $600 million drug treatment voucher initiative, will give recovering addicts expanded access to a full range of faith-based and community providers.
- Support legislation providing mentoring for children of prisoners.
Stop the Democrats' "Slow Bleed" Plan
Proposed by John Murtha, 'slow bleed' would do exactly what it sounds like: gradually take away the resources our men and women need to fight the terrorists in Iraq. It would limit reinforcements, and possibly even close the bases that offer support and shelter for our troops.
Congress cannot support a plan that would leave our brave men and women in harm's way without adequate resources to protect themselves. The Murtha 'slow bleed' strategy is a dishonest and dangerous response to the challenges we face in Iraq.
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