We must reduce government debt levels, minimize regulation, and cut taxes to ensure our economy can continue to thrive and provide opportunities for the greatest number of people in our community. Low taxes, free enterprise, and our competitive economic system has proven to make the United States the economic and social envy of the world.

Our national debt is a bi-partisan tragedy. We can do much better as a nation. We need the President and Congress to come together and have a bi-partisan conversation regarding our $22 billion debt. We must find new and creative ways to cut spending, just as I have led in Will County as the Republican Leader on the Board.

We need to continue energy policies that reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil. Far too often our oil is purchased from nations controlled by dictatorships and other repressive regimes who seek to do us harm.