Current Position: US Senator since 2003
Affiliation: Republican

The State of Tennessee leads the country when it comes to balancing its budget, keeping a competitive tax code with no state income tax and pushing to set its own priorities in education. In fact, I think Washington could learn a lot by listening to Tennessee.

Tennesseans tell me they want Washington to learn some of our state’s common sense. My biggest goals are to find ways for the federal government to get out of the way – freeing up states, freeing up businesses and freeing up individuals to succeed in our free enterprise system. I want to keep more decisions in Tennessee, push back against mandates like the federal health care law, unleash the private sector to create good jobs, fix the nation’s debt and help improve the education of our children.

Source: Government page