Editorial

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold its first hearing on what was, by all accounts, one of the largest scams in American history. We’re meeting to investigate the fraudulent allocation of emergency assistance during the COVID pandemic. Or in layman’s terms — the Feds were scammed out of a boatload of COVID money, and we’re demanding accountability.

I helped lead the negotiations to end business as usual in Washington D.C. Nineteen of my colleagues and I spearheaded rigorous debate about the broken rules and processes in Congress. We were successful and made historic, once in a generation, improvements to this body.

First, conservatives support policies that grow the economy, not inflation. Second, conservatives are for a secure southern border. Third, conservatives want to lower gas prices and energy costs. Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, we conservatives support safe communities.

I introduced legislation to call fentanyl what it is: a weapon of mass destruction. My bill will deploy sensors to detect fentanyl and use analytical, data-based decision-making to support law enforcement on the ground. This additional support will assist our brave men and women of law enforcement who are on the front lines to interdict deadly fentanyl pouring into our communities.

Winter is coming and Biden’s energy crisis is going to make the cost to heat your home outrageously unaffordable. We don’t need new spending or subsidies to secure American energy independence. We need the right policies. We need the Trump administration’s policies. Unleashing American energy will decrease gas prices, decrease the unemployment rate, reduce inflation, and protect our national security interests. I introduced the Fueling American Prosperity Act and the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act to nullify and defund Biden’s energy-killing executive orders, restart energy leasing, and get America back on track to energy dominance. It is time to drill, baby, drill!

House and Senate Republicans worked across the aisle to remove partisan provisions from the final version of our national defense bill. My fellow conservatives and I made it clear we do not support drafting our daughters, and that red flag laws that would disarm veterans have no place in the NDAA. I am proud that even as a Representative in the minority, I was able to hold firm on my principles but still deliver meaningful results for our troops.

The deceptively named Women’s Health Protection Act ignores women’s needs for opportunity, education, and access to advancement, selling us short by falsely asserting that all we need is more abortion. Women deserve better, and the next generation deserves our support and protection.