Government spending is out of control and our country is literally mortgaging our children's future. In recent years, Congress has tried to spend and borrow our way to prosperity, creating massive deficits and leaving our country in trillions of dollars of debt. Our government needs to cut up the credit cards, balance the budget, and reduce the deficit.

I have fought for spending cuts and common sense solutions to rein in our out-of-control debt since being elected to the House of Representatives. Previous Congresses and Administrations have used deficit spending to drive our national debt to over $21 trillion. This is a burden our children and grandchildren will have to bear.

I firmly believe that the federal government should have to live within its means like families and businesses do every day. That is why I have cosponsored numerous Constitutional Amendments to mandate a balanced budget, and have voted hundreds of times to cut wasteful spending.

I have been dissatisfied with the level of spending cuts offered thus far in Congress, and believe that short-term resolutions will not help us rein in federal spending. I have opposed leadership on multiple spending bills during my tenure in Congress, because I believe they did not go far enough to end our country's spending problem. I have also cosponsored legislation in previous years to reduce our spending by one percent annually, and as we continue to move forward in the 115th Congress, I will not stop in my efforts to fight for fiscal sanity.

Our nation has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. As conservatives, it is our duty to successfully and responsibly sustain our current society, while simultaneously setting our future generations up for prosperity. We are absolutely failing and it is past time for Congress to get serious about our nation's spending addiction.