This week, I gave my U.S. Senate Maiden Speech – a long-held custom for freshman senators to spotlight their priorities in an inaugural speech on the Senate ground. The primary time I entered the U.S. Senate chamber, I bought chills. The chamber and the Capitol constructing characterize the values we’ve held for almost two and a half centuries. They characterize how distinctive our Republic is.
We should not lose sight of what makes America so distinctive. Our founders threw off the tyranny of a king with an thought; that our rights come to us instantly from God – not from a king. Governments are instituted to guard these rights.
Even right this moment, after 246 years, our founding rules are each bit as true. These values – like rule of regulation, checks and balances, and federalism – are crucial to our republic. They’ve created the best nation the world has ever seen. We’re strongest once we comply with them. We’re by no means weaker than once we stray from them.
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Our American system unleashes the facility of people to attain their full potential. In our nation, it doesn’t matter the place you begin. With sufficient grit and arduous work, you’ll be able to go anyplace. That’s why the world needs to come back right here. That’s why almost each main innovation and breakthrough comes from America.
The framers of the Structure additionally believed that authorities closest to the folks is greatest capable of serve them. It’s frequent sense. What works in New York might not work in Nebraska. Our state has proven America what’s attainable when the federal authorities will get out of the way in which and permits states to guide.
Throughout my time as Governor, we stored the scale and scope of presidency small. We empowered folks. We ran authorities extra like a enterprise. We dramatically improved the extent of service supplied to Nebraska households. We bought assist to folks in want quicker than ever earlier than. We made it simpler for residents and companies to work with the state. We supplied billions of {dollars} in tax reduction – together with for veterans and seniors by phasing out taxes on their retirement earnings and Social Safety. We attracted new investments and jobs for communities huge and small. We employed a record-number of Nebraskans whereas our state’s unemployment fee reached a historic low.
We made authorities work higher. We proved that we are able to do a greater job of offering providers whereas nonetheless controlling our prices. We additionally proved that we are able to respect folks’s liberty and freedoms whereas defending their security. Through the pandemic, we stored youngsters in class, folks at work, and authorities open. Consequently, we have been rated the primary greatest pandemic response state.
All of this displays Nebraska’s conservative values. In Nebraska, we respect folks’s freedom. We worth sturdy communities, religion, and household. We honor our regulation enforcement and army. We anticipate a restricted, accountable authorities. We imagine in private duty and the boundless potential of the person.
Nebraska is what America is meant to be.
However nationally, we’ve strayed from these values. Too many now take our freedoms as a right. Too typically we hear resentment fairly than reverence for the very rules that make this nation nice. Too many have forgotten the previous adage {that a} authorities sufficiently big to provide you all the pieces you need, is robust sufficient to take all the pieces you might have.
As your Senator, I’ll attempt to make the federal authorities work higher for the folks. I’ll reject each effort to limit our liberties and undermine our values. I’ll work to revive transparency and religion within the federal authorities. I’ll work to regulate spending, curb pointless regulation, and restrict the scale and scope of presidency. I’ll work to safe our borders and supply the sources to defend in opposition to our enemies. I’ll work to guarantee that we’ve got a well-trained, well-led, and well-equipped army to defend us. I’ll maintain this and future administrations accountable to the American folks. Extra importantly, I’ll all the time struggle for the perfect pursuits and freedoms of you, the Nebraskans I serve.
All through our historical past, we’ve got risen to fulfill each problem. With our founding values as our information, we are going to once more rise to fulfill the problem of this second.
Together with my colleagues within the Nebraska delegation, my staff and I are right here to serve you. Contact my staff and I anytime by cellphone at 202-224-4224, on my web site www.ricketts.senate.gov, or by way of e-mail contactricke@ricketts.senate.gov. I’m honored to serve our nice state and can proceed to work to guard the Good Life from Washington overreach.