Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) touted the House GOP’s “Better Way” agenda in the Republican address this week, calling it a step toward letting people make their own decisions instead of the government.
{mosads}”Hard-working families can’t understand Washington, D.C.’s tangled web of taxes, one-size-fits-all regulations, and arbitrary rules,” McMorris Rodgers said. “We’re anxious because your voices are not being heard in Congress.”
The plan, rolled out by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) earlier this month, lists six policy areas it will cover: poverty, tax reform, national security, healthcare, cutting regulations and restoring constitutional authority.
Ryan has spent months talking about the House’s agenda, arguing that Republicans need a party platform that illustrates how exactly they are different from Democrats on major policy issues.
“Over time, presidents came to legislate by executive orders; courts came to make laws from the bench; and we, Congress, ceded power to the other two branches in order to simplify the lawmaking process,” McMorris Rodgers said.
She called for change so the “IRS can’t target free speech and the EPA can’t regulate mud puddles,” bringing agencies closer to the people and “rolling back the red tape” to help people succeed.
“Because only ‘we the people’ know the way to achieve our dreams – not the government,” she said.