1. Ban congressmen, senators, and White House officials from lobbying for five years.
2. Freeze the pay of congressmen, senators, and White House officials until the federal budget is balanced. This includes cost-of-living adjustments!
3. Force political candidates to immediately scan and post all campaign contributions on their campaign website. Failure to do so results in criminal penalties.
4. Pass term limits now! Since the House of Representatives authorizes the federal spending, limit House members to three terms (six years).
5. Make Congress and every Washington bureaucracy undergo an independent, professional audit, line by fine, program by program, every four years.
6. Pass a constitutional amendment requiring Washington run to balance the budget every year except when Congress passes a resolution declaring a emergency.
7. Create a federal rainy-day fund that would set one-half of one percent of all tax receipts each for national, state, and local emergencies.
8. Reenact pay-as-you-go rules that would require Congress to offset new spending programs and tax cuts with spending cuts from other programs.
9. Reinstitute congressional spending caps that would force congressmen or senators to live within their previous spending projections. These caps will not be broken unless Congress passed a separate resolution dedaring a national emergency as described in number 6.
10. Pass a new American tax code written by a bipartisan panel of budget experts instead of the lobbyist groups who regularly carve out special-interest deductions and greatly simplify the tax system.

Source: Rome Wasn't Burnt In A Day by Joe Scarborough (2004)

Linda Chavez's Union Reform:

1. Give workers true freedom of choice--and remove the special privileges of labor leaders. Federal law now dictates that if barely more than half of employees (50% plus one) vote to be represented by a union, then that union is the exclusive representative of every employee, whether or not a particular employee voted for the union.
2. Stop Big Labor from spending members' dues on politics without their permission.
3. Repeal laws that allow unions to fleece the government.
4. Give workers the flexibility that unions won't give them.
5. Allow workers to choose options outside of unions.
6. Prevent union-paid organizations from sowing dissent in the workplace simply to push workers to unionize.
7. Open up the union books.
8. Take away Big Labor's license to commit violent acts.

Source: Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
   by Linda Chavez & Daniel Gray (2004)

Six questions that should be asked of every law, every government program and regulation that is being considered:

1. Is it the government’s business?
2. Does it promote self-reliance?
3. Is it responsible?
4. Does it make us prosperous?
5. Does it make us safer?
6. Does it unify us?

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