Rooney releases plan to fight the DC spending culture, new ad hits on no balanced budget, no paychecks for Congress

(NAPLES, Fla.) Republican Francis Rooney releases an aggressive plan to combat the rampant spending culture in Washington DC in his campaign to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson in Southwest Florida. Rooney’s priorities include his fight to cut corporate welfare; to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse; to cut the federal workforce by ten percent; to respect the limits imposed by the Tenth Amendment; and to balance the federal budget.

One element of Rooney’s plan was highlighted in a recent ad, which started airing in Southwest Florida. Entitled “Paycheck,” the new ad is directed at the national debt and runaway federal spending and focuses on Rooney’s intent to fight for legislation that will require Congress to balance the budget in order for its members to receive a salary.

The 30-second spot can be seen here: https://youtu.be/eJJC0nBWBpo

“Like you, I’m fed up with Washington. All talk, no action. That’s why we’re more than nineteen trillion dollars in debt,” said Rooney. “Let’s hold the politicians accountable. If they don’t balance the budget, they shouldn’t get paid. No balanced budget, no paycheck.”

According to the CATO Institute, a conservative public policy research organization, the federal government spends at least a $100 billion a year on corporate welfare. Rooney intends to go after the subsidies and special interest loopholes that benefit the biggest corporations with the most connected lobbyists and fight to eliminate the Export-Import Bank, while privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other agencies involved in handing out corporate welfare. Rooney also will refuse to accept PAC contributions.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the federal government lost $125 billion in 2014 to fraud, waste and abuse. Programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid are the most prone to abuse. Rooney will fight for reforms to improve the accountability of these programs and protect taxpayers from fraud, waste and abuse.

The federal government has grown too big with too many duplicative layers of bureaucracy. Francis Rooney will fight for an immediate hiring freeze in the non-defense and security portions of the federal government and then push for a ten percent reduction in the size of the federal workforce through attrition.

“A big reason that federal spending has skyrocketed in recent years is due to the fact that Washington is doing too many things that should be left to the states,” said Rooney.

Francis Rooney will respect and defend the 10^th Amendment and shift power and money over programs like education, health care and transportation back to the states so governors and state legislatures can deliver better services at lower costs to taxpayers.

Francis Rooney is a successful businessman who is running for Congress to bring decades of private sector experience to Washington. Through hard work and perseverance, Rooney built an internationally recognized investment company based in Naples that has created jobs and economic opportunity in Southwest Florida. Rooney also owns Manhattan Construction Company, a fourth-generation family business. Notable local projects include Fort Myers’ downtown streetscape and utility improvements, construction of the Lee County Jail and Gulf Coast High School in Naples, as well as a number of improvements on Florida Gulf Coast University’s campus such as Biscayne Hall, Alico Arena, Holmes Hall, Academic Building 7 and solar power plant. As a business leader, Rooney has signed both sides of a paycheck, learned how our economy works and how to bring people together to get results.

In addition to his business career, Rooney has also dedicated his time and energy to public and community service. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as U.S. Ambassador to The Holy See from 2005 to 2008. He has also served as second vice chair of the board for Naples Community Hospital and currently serves as a trustee of The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and as a member of the Council of American Ambassadors.

As a lifelong Republican, Rooney has also worked tirelessly to elect like-minded conservatives to office on both the state and national levels.

Rooney is dedicated to advancing higher education initiatives as a board member of the University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame and the Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation.

A graduate of Georgetown University (A.B. 1975) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1978), Rooney has honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame (2006) and the University of Dallas (2010). He is a former member of the District of Columbia and Texas Bars, holds a U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Masters License (sailing endorsement) and is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Naples and have three children: Larry, married to Porscha; Michael; and Kathleen, one grandson, Beckett, and one granddaughter, Bergen.

For more information, visit FrancisRooney.com.

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