Fwd: Update from Congressman Good: Starting the Year Strong

Legislative Victories from the House Floor  This week, House Republicans passed several key pieces of legislation that have set the tone for the new Congress. One of the first bills passed was the Born-Alive Survivors Act, which simply says that if a newborn infant survives an attempted abortion, that baby must be given lifesaving medical attention. While you would think this is a non-controversial position, all but one Democrat opposed the legislation. I was proud to join my Republican colleagues in passing this important legislation to establish a bare-minimum standard for protecting human life and caring for babies born alive, instead of leaving them to suffer and die.  In addition to this important pro-life bill, we also passed a resolution condemning the violence against crisis pregnancy centers that took place following the leaked Supreme Court decision last year. Once again, we only had one Democrat join us in rejecting violence against those simply working to save lives and help vulnerable women in the most difficult of circumstances. At the beginning of the week, I voted for the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, which would fire the Biden Administration's 87,000 new IRS agents. Democrats' claim to stand for the "average American", while the actually support efforts to increase audits for middle class families. This bill would block those efforts and allocate funding for improved customer service at the IRS.  We also passed the Protecting America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) from China Act, which would prohibit the sale and exportation of crude oil from the United States' SPR to China. For the last several months, President Biden has been depleting the American SPR to help cover up the massive failures of his political agenda. Americans have been footing higher energy bills while Biden has been compromising our national and economic security by selling the nation's petroleum resources. This new Congress is dedicated to creating accountability and stopping corruption.  Securing Our Border and Spending Less of Your Money  On Tuesday, I introduced my first bill of the new Congress, the Close Biden's Open Borders Act, which would complete the construction of the Southern Border wall without increasing spending. In 2022, roughly 2.2 million illegal aliens unlawfully entered the United States. My legislation would temporarily freeze federal funding earmarked for the United Nations for two years and repurpose those funds to pay for the cost of finishing construction of the wall and securing our border.  On Wednesday, I introduced four more bills, all of which focus on reducing government spending and increasing government transparency. The Nickel Plan would require the federal government to reduce its budget by one nickel for every dollar it spends annually over a period of five years. It would implement a 5% reduction in spending and cap total federal spending at 17.5% of GDP. The Less is More Resolution amends the rules of the House to reduce the size and scope of government by limiting the number and cost of federal programs. It does so by requiring Members of Congress to cut two programs for every new one they introduce.  My Article 1 Regulatory Budget Act would require a regulatory budget detailing regulatory costs, similar to the annual budget for taxes and government spending. The All Economic Regulations Are Transparent (ALERT) Act would require a monthly update from executive agencies with detailed information about any rules that they are working on.  Click here to read more about these bills.