Well, thank goodness the Senate's bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act only called for about $1.2T in expenditures over the next 10 years. No need to worry, the bipartisan authors told us “it will pay for itself."
Contrary to the words of our most-trusted politicians, the C.B.O. (Congressional Budget Office) says the bill will actually add $256B to the deficit. Plus, at the time of the cloture vote, most of the ninety-nine related bills and 539 amendments associated with this bill (HR3684) had neither text nor C.B.O. estimates.
How can Congress vote on bills they haven’t read or evaluated for economic impact? But once again, don’t worry. There is plenty of precedent for hastily passed legislation– remember the Affordable Care Act?
Now, we get to observe how Congress handles the next $3.5T spending bill (maybe $5T). Let’s see what nonsense they can pack into it and when they will permit us to read it.
It’s high time to stop this reckless spending, regulatory overreach, and hasty investments to pick winners among new technologies. It’s high time to bring sanity back into our governance and give power back to the States and citizens where it rightfully belongs.
There is a way to do that and keep today’s predicaments from repeating in the future: It’s called a Convention of States, the nonpartisan solution to the bipartisan disease in Washington, D.C. It is the tool our founding fathers gave us to deal with a runaway central government. We need it now!
The 50 state legislatures have the power to restore order if they choose to use it. We just need to convince 34 of them (15 down, 19 to go) to make history by passing a resolution that forces Congress to call for an Article V Convention of States.
With your help, we can have Virginia join the 15 states that have currently passed the resolution.
To get started, all you need to do is sign the petition below. A copy of your petition will be forwarded to your state legislators who hold the unique role to call a Convention of States...and the rest can become history.
