Five Steps To Restore Trust, Transparency, And Empowerment
Sen. Mike Lee
The Federalist
11/6/2014
…As a frequent critic of my party’s strategic timidity—and as incoming chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, whose job it is encourage bolder thinking and action—I thought it incumbent on me to offer some concrete, early, and hopefully constructive suggestions about how the new Republican Congress might be steered toward unity and success.
As the reader will see, the ideas below are not really policy goals. (I have my own ideas about what our party’s reform agenda ought to be, and I will spend most of the next two years advocating them.)
Rather, these are five suggestions to my Republican colleagues to help repair the dysfunctional legislative branch we have inherited, rebuild Congress’s reputation among the American people, and by extension slowly restore the public’s confidence in the Republican Party…
…What I propose, then, is an agenda of empowerment—an internal Republican agenda of empowerment to complement our external one. Let Congress operate less like a nineteenth-century industrial mill, and more like a twenty-first-century open-source network…
Read the complete article at The Federalist.
