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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/change_you_deserve.asp
| House Republicans, who will unveil their "Change You Deserve" agenda later this week, released a memo today outlining their plan’s broad principles and rationale. Also included in the memo were a set of legislative proposals called The American Families Agenda. Measures in the package include:
Health Care. Affordable, high-quality health care for every American by giving families greater choice and control, not through a massive expansion of government health care controlled by bureaucrats;
Economy. A stronger economy by stopping the largest tax increase in American history, cutting wasteful Washington spending, balancing the budget by 2012, passing serious entitlement reform and strengthening our housing sector.
Energy. An energy policy that increases the supply of American-made energy – making us more energy independent, helping bring down gasoline and diesel prices, and creating jobs here at home; and
Security. Security from threats our families face both at home and abroad by securing our borders once and for all, taking on the rising criminal threats in our communities and giving terrorists plotting new attacks no place to hide.
None of these bills will ever see the light of day in the legislative process with a Democratic Congress. But just like the Democrats “Six for ’06” agenda or the Contract with America, it provides Republican lawmakers and challengers worried about their declini ... |
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