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The Bill of Reforms
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Proposed amendments to our U.S. Constitution to be
initiated by favorable votes of 2/3 of all state legislatures calling for a constitutional convention to propose amendments. A 3/4 approval of all state legislatures of any amendments set forth from the constitutional convention become a part of our U.S. Constitution. This method is suggested because Congress will not propose and pass any amendments to address these necessary reforms to Campaign Financing, Voting Procedures, Presidential Line Item-Veto, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branches of Government. Click on a proposed amendment below to review the recommendations. |
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Article V of our constitution reads: The Congress,
whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof... |
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Todays Leader - In Their Words
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For the past 25 years numerous watchdog
groups and commissions have described in great detail enormous amounts of waste, fraud and inefficiency in the federal government. In the 1980s, for example, President Reagan's Grace Commission concluded that as many as one out of every three taxpayer dollars is squandered through government waste and inefficiency. Unfortunately, this problem is getting worse, not better. Even the September 11 terrorist attacks could not persuade Congress to trim waste. Since September 11, nondefense discretionary spending has increased at nearly three times the rate of inflation while total discretionary spending has increased by 40 percent. |
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Reckless and unsustainable spending is
inexcusable at a time when our nation is at war, and when major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are headed toward bankruptcy. As a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs I will work tirelessly to conduct effective and rigorous oversight of the federal government. Every federal agency and program should be subject to sunset and review requirements that will force them to justify their existence. Effective oversight also should prompt Congress to consider whether some functions of the federal government could be better performed in the private sector. |
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http://www.leadersreport.com/Bill_of_Reform.html, so the legislator and the staff of the legislator can read the suggestions for improving our federal government and their important role in accomplishing it. |
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A Return to Leadership
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Columns
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Column - An American View
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U.S. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
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An American View column and blog by Bruce Green - moderate political discourse
Edited by Kimberly Green
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Change The Loan
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The founding fathers set out a plan for government in
the young United States that suggested people got their power and rights from God and then the people loaned some of that power to their "republican style" of government. Even though our Constitution didn't include term limits for Congress, the Executive or Judicial branches, the Constitutional Convention in 1787 considered them. It was thought at the time to be unnecessary because the common practice was to offer your services in Congress for 6 years or less...a citizen-legislator. Congress was not meant to be a career, but a brief service for your state and country and then you returned to your real job. |