Weekly Republican Address: Create Jobs Cut Spending & the Pledge to America

Texas Insider Report: Washington D.C. Republican Rep.-Elect Kristi Noem (R-SD) says that while stopping all the tax hikes scheduled for January 1st is an important first step to stop American jobs from being destroyed more needs to be done to reduce the uncertainty facing family-owned small businesses including cutting spending and repealing the job-killing health care law.   These priorities are outlined in the Pledge to America a governing agenda built by listening to the people comprised of reforms the current Democratic majority in Washington has refused to bring to a vote.  Rep.-elect Noem and Rep.-elect Tim Scott (R-SC) serve as freshman class representatives on House Republicans leadership team.  Audio of the address is available here.  Video will be available here for viewing and here for downloading once the embargo is lifted tomorrow morning. Hi Im Kristi Noem Congresswoman-elect from the state of South Dakota. Im honored to represent the people of my state as part of a new majority committed to being humble more modest and more focused on addressing the challenges our nation faces. While Washington has been busy doing whats best for Washington things have gotten worse not better for families and small businesses. With unemployment still rising the number one thing our family-owned small businesses need right now is certainty.  They need to know that the government is not going to come in and do anything to jeopardize their ability to keep their doors open. So its certainly encouraging to see that President Obama has proposed a potential agreement to stop all the tax hikes scheduled to take effect on January 1st.  Failing to stop all the tax hikes would mean taxes would go up for small businesses all across this country destroying more jobs. The American people want to see all the tax hikes stopped and they wont tolerate games that might get in the way.  They wont put up with any celebrating and back-slapping either.  Putting the games aside and doing the right thing for the people shouldnt be the exception it should be the rule. While stopping all the tax hikes would be a good first step this alone wont eliminate the job-killing uncertainty hanging over our employers and entrepreneurs. Thats why we need to focus on cutting spending and reducing the size of government.  The American people want us to stop spending dollars we dont have.  To do that we need to start taking a long hard look at the size and scope of government and find new ways to resist Washingtons urge to grow and to grow.  Lets do a better job of following the money and evaluating the effectiveness of government agencies. We also need to repeal the job-killing health care law.  Just about every day during my campaign I visited with small business owners who told me this health care law is going to increase their costs how theyre making those tough decisions about whether to continue offering benefits.  Once we repeal this law we can replace it with common-sense reforms that lower costs for families and small businesses.  Republicans have outlined these priorities and reforms in the Pledge to America a governing agenda built by listening to the people.  Hard work lies ahead but those of us in this new class of representatives have come face to face with the peoples frustration and we are committed to making sure Washington humbles itself and starts making good decisions.  Listening to the people honoring our Constitution and making the most of the blessings God has bestowed on this great nation is how we go about securing the promise of the American Dream for our children and their children.  Thank you for listening and may you and yours experience all the joys and blessings of the holiday season."