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The Senate Republican Plan for Creating Jobs and
Prosperity



View the full Jobs for America Plan here.

Adopt Common Sense Health Care Solutions to Lower Costs, Increase
Choices

  • Allow the Purchase of Insurance Across State Lines.
  • Allow Small Businesses to Band Together to Lower Costs.
  • Strengthen Health Savings Accounts and Patient-Centric Health Care.
  • Level the Playing Field on Tax Treatment for Purchasing Health Insurance.
  • Enact Meaningful Legal Reforms to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits.

Power America’s Economy with an All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy

  • Lift the Outer Continental Shelf Prohibitions.
  • Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
  • Require Greater Access to Federal Lands for Exploration of Resources.
  • Allow for State Control of Job-Creating Energy Production and Water Resources.

Begin Living Within Our Means to Help the Economy Today and Lift
the Burden on Future Generations

  • Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
  • Cut Spending to Immediately and Substantially Reduce Deficits.

Reform Tax Code To Spur Economic Growth

  • Simplify and Reduce Business and Individual Tax Rates.
  • Make the Research and Development Tax Credit Permanent.
  • Extend and Make Permanent the Small Business Investment Tax Incentive.
  • Keep Lower Taxes on Capital Gains and Dividends.
  • Repeal the Death Tax.

Unburden the Economy from Washington Regulations to Unshackle Job
Creators

  • Require Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Formulation of Regulations.
  • Require Congressional Approval of Any Federal Rule that May Affect the Economy by At Least $100 Million.
  • Prohibit EPA from Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act.
  • Streamline the Federal Permitting Process.
  • Help Small Businesses.

Create Competitive Workforce to Close the Skills Gap

  • Reform Federal Workforce Development Programs.
  • Encourage State Experimentation at the K-12 Level and Non-Traditional Post-Secondary
    Education.
  • Improve the Coordination and Efficiency of the Multitude of Federal STEM Programs.

Increase Exports to Help U.S. Workers and Farmers Sell More,
Create More American Jobs

  • Level the Playing Field on Trade.
  • Provide Trade Promotion Authority to Open Markets for U.S. Workers.