Blue Dog Coalition

On the Issues

Fiscal Responsibility

The Blue Dog Coalition has a long history of leadership in addressing the nation’s fiscal challenges, and the members will continue to build on that record of accomplishment by advancing commonsense, middle-of-the-road policies to put the country back on a path to long-term fiscal sustainability.

Economic Opportunity

The Blue Dog Coalition is focused on creating a positive economic climate geared toward bolstering growth, promoting innovation and energy independence.

Oversight and Regulatory Review

The Blue Dog Coalition examines the thousands of regulations issued annually by the federal government with the objective of identifying those that are overly burdensome and modifying rules problematic to job creation.

Congressional Reform

The Blue Dog Coalition understands that in order to fix our fiscal problems and grow the economy, we must reach across the aisle and find common ground. We must also reform the current institutional culture that rewards extremism and hinders bipartisan compromise.