National Taxpayers Union just issued their popular BillTally report for 2005. The report calculates the total amount of spending (or spending cuts) that each member of Congress advocates through their sponsorship of legislation.

For instance, the liberal Congressman from Michigan's 7th district, Joe Schwarz, sponsored or co-sponsored a whopping 43 bills totaling $26.65 billion in new spending versus only 2 bills that cut spending by $41 million (note the "b" and the "m" in the two figures). Combined, he proposed $26.61 billion in net new spending.

There were 30 Democrats who advocated spending less than what Joe "RINO" Schwarz supported. Democrats like Alan Mollohan ($2.5 billion) and John Murtha ($11.9 billion).

In contrast, Jeb Hensarling (TX-05), a fiscal rock star who was elected with Club member support in 2002, supported 11 bills totaling $299 million in new spending, but who also supported 11 bills totaling over $41 billion in spending cuts. Combined, he supported a net cut in spending that was just over $41 billion.

Compared to Schwarz, that's a $67.61 billion swing in the right direction!

It's true that one congressman is only one small voice out of 435 screaming politicians, but if you get the rights ones in Congress who will tirelessly fight for taxpayers, then you're talking about billions of dollars that can be saved.

If elected to Congress, you can rest assure that Joe Schwarz's opponent, Tim Walberg, will be standing side by side with Jeb Hensarling in reducing the size of government.

Walberg's primary race against Schwarz is only 5 days away, but there's still time left to send him a much needed donation.

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