What are your top 5 issues that you feel most passionate about and what's your stand on them?

- Matty from the District, via MySpace

1) Wasteful Spending - we should spend smarter
2) Government Inefficiency - it is bad, people need to be held accountable
3) Federal Government is too big - need to make it smaller, less regulations, more power at the state level
4) Elected Officials care more about themselves than the public
5) The people need to be better informed about how their government works and should take a roll in it

In the end most of what we call "issues" are not the real issues that Congress should be dealing with. Congress should not be debating about a wall/fence... that is the Department of Homeland Security's job. Congress should not be looking to solve social security woes... thats why there are 65,000 people working at the social security administration. What Congress needs to do is hold the executive branch accountable and enact laws only when necessary. Congress has been making laws to regulate the actions of the executive branch rather than using the power of the purse though the appropriations process. Congress should act more like the board of a corporation rather than trying to micro-manage the country.