A Government that's Accountable

Ensuring a government that’s accountable means pursuing legislation and holding hearings that will:

  Preserve our constitutional freedoms

• Co-introduced H.R. 646, the SHORT Act to protect law-abiding gun owners from the Biden Administration’s attempts to restrict short-barreled rifles and shotguns.
• Co-introduced H.R. 279, Pharmacist Conscience Protection Act to ensure the Biden Administration cannot force pharmacists to provide elective abortion medicines.
• Co-introduced H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act to allow law-abiding concealed carry license holders to carry their concealed firearm across state lines.

 Hold Washington accountable

• Co-introduced H.R. 277, the REINS Act of 2023 to require Congress to approve any federal rule or regulation the Office of Management and Budget determines to have an economic impact of $100 million or more before it is imposed on the American people.

 Restore the people’s voice

• Last year, I co-sponsored several bills that will bring more accountability and transparency to a President’s Executive Orders. The More Accountability is Necessary Now Acts are a series of bills that require the executive branch to notify both Congress and the American public of  its intent to issue any new executive order.
• From opposing assaults on our Second Amendment rights, including taking on the ATF's backdoor attempts to restrict law-abiding gun owners to fighting to protect the rights of unborn, women and girls and fighting to protect religious freedom, I will never back down from seeking to preserve our Constitutional Freedoms. 

• Three specific rule changes that I have pushed for years were included in the Rules for the 118th Congress. These are:

  • Mandated 72-hour time period between when bill text is released, and a final vote is held. Too often, bills are written behind closed doors and released merely a few hours before a vote is held, which doesn’t give members enough time to review all the changes.
  • “Calendar Wednesday”, where committee chairs bring bills to the House floor after 72 hours’ notice and under open amendment process that allows any member of Congress to offer an amendment for full consideration of the U.S. House.
  • Single Subject Requirement – prohibits a bill or joint resolution from being introduced unless the sponsor submits a statement that limits it to a single subject. This is critical to end the practice of massive bills.

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