Today, the Republican Study Committee’s Government Efficiency, Accountability, and Reform (GEAR) Task Force released its first report, Power, Practices, Personnel: 100+ Commonsense Solutions to a Better Government on bettering the way that our government is run in Washington. As we know far too well, the federal government is dysfunctional and too often does not work for Americans. It instead works for the bureaucrats, for the politicians, and for the special interests.

While the impeachment trial continues in the Senate and the House plays partisan games with bills like the upcoming PRO Act, people outside of Washington in “real America” wonder what politicians are actually doing for them. For the answer, this week, they should turn to champions of school choice across the nation, in celebration of National School Choice Week.

It is no secret that limited-government proponents dislike the Federal Reserve, or “the Fed,” and the influence that this central bank wields. It attempts to “play God” in our economy by its control over monetary policy and almost always does far more harm than good. What could not be more secretive currently, though, is the way that the Fed operates. Fortunately, there is significant support in Congress for a bill -- the Federal Reserve Transparency Act -- that would require a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the Fed.

In Washington, the circus of impeachment is alive and well. Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi strangely signed the articles of impeachment with dozens of pens emblazoned with her own signature, while smiling and joking around. So much for a supposedly “somber” occasion. She then proceeded to hand them out to fellow House Democrats like souvenirs or party favors, before the managers carried the articles over to the Senate.

FreedomWorks is proud to honor Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) as our member of the month for January 2020, and our first member of the month for the new decade. In his representation of Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses Knoxville and surrounding areas in the eastern part of the state, freshman member Rep. Burchett has beyond exceeded expectations.

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