Issue Position: Restoring Fiscal Discipline

Issue Position

Washington is spending and borrowing at alarming rates, and the result is record-high budget deficits and a national debt of $16 trillion. This burden equates to more than $50,000 for each and every Minnesotan. We now have a debt that is larger than our entire nation's GDP. This debt is not only a burden placed on our children and grandchildren, but it also continues to dampen the prospects of the economic recovery we should have seen long ago. Minnesota families don't have the option of simply spending more money than they have, and neither should the Federal Government. One of my top priorities in Congress is bringing fiscal sanity to Washington. My first vote in Congress was against the release of $350 billion in bailout spending, and I've since voted against trillions in wasteful Washington spending.

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