FreedomWorks is proud to recognize Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) as our member of the month for November. Rep. Sanford represents South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, which encompasses much of South Carolina’s southeastern coastline, including Hilton Head Island. Sanford served as representative for this district from 1995 to 2001, and again from 2013 to the present.

FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for June 2018 is H.Res. 919, sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.). The resolution, which has 36 cosponsors, would recognize that our unsustainable national debt poses a true threat to the security of our country. This simple fact is too often ignored by those who claim to be fiscal conservatives, yet use increased defense funding as an excuse to vote for higher and higher spending levels each year.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and strongly encourage him or her to cosponsor the One Percent Spending Reduction Act, H.R. 5572, introduced by Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). The bill, also known as the “penny plan,” would balance the federal budget in five years by simply cutting one penny from every dollar the federal government spends.

Dear FreedomWorks member, As one of our million-plus FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your representatives and ask them to support H.R. 1848, the One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2011. Introduced by Rep. Mack (R-FL), the “penny plan” would balance the federal budget beginning in FY 2019 by cutting spending by one percent each year for six fiscal years and capping overall spending at 18 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) beginning in FY 2018. It would reduce overall federal spending by $7.5 trillion over the next ten years.