#CPAC2013: Jim Sensenbrenner

Jim Sensenbrenner is a United States Congressman serving Wisconsin’s 5th district. Sensenbrenner has served for 10 years in the state legislative and was first elected in the House of Representatives in 1978.

Sensenbrenner is known for a couple key pieces of legislations. Sensenbrenner introduced the Patriot Act in the house, helped pass the Child Abduction Prevention Act, and extended the Voting Rights Act for 25 years.

Rep. Sensenbrenner reflected back on 1964 and the “Goldwater Years” and said “seeds were set” for the “culmination of the conservative movement and the election of Ronald Reagan.” He encouraged listeners that we need a “revival of the grassroots movement in conservatism.” If we look at what Obama has done, he is no longer hindered by “having to ask the electorate to further his mandate.” Despite the Democratic narrative, Sesenbrenner informed us that the sequester “was not dreamed up by nasty, evil Republicans” but by the “Obama White House and Jack Lew.”

Because Republicans in the house didn’t “blink” or “do away” with the sequester, Obama’s litany of scare tactics makes “Chicken Little look like an under estimation of the sky falling.” Sesenbrenner went on further to compare the Ryan budget plan and the Murray budget plan, emphasizing that “the devil is always in the details.”

To summarize, the Ryan budget:

  • doesn’t increase taxes
  • won’t be a deficit in 10 years
  • no more borrowing from China
  • no more quantitative easing

The Murray budget on the other hand:

  • minimum spending cuts
  • raises taxes
  • does not provide a balanced budget

The Murray budget defies the desire and goal of the American people to cut spending. Sesenbrenner indicated the President’s goal is to demonize Republicans and to regain Democratic control of the house in 2014 and restore a “rubber stamp Congress.” He closed his remarks by giving a directive to conservatives, that we “have to win hearts and minds and get the votes of the American public. We need good conservative, electable candidates elected in primaries,” and using the example of Wisconsin and Walker and Kleefisch’s recall victories, if conservatives are “smart and talk the people’s language, people will vote for you. That is our challenge, that is what we must do.”

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