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The Big Idea August 21, 2020

Georgia AG Chris Carr's Big Idea: Coronavirus liability protection for businesses

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and other Republican AGs are pushing to protect businesses reopening during the coronavirus pandemic from lawsuits that may arise from customers who claim they contracted the virus in the course of dealing with them.

The Big Idea August 14, 2020

Mitt Romney's Big Idea: Prevent Social Security and Medicare from going bankrupt

Sen. Mitt Romney would create special committees to craft fast-track legislation to preserve federal trust funds.

The Big Idea August 7, 2020

David McIntosh鈥檚 Big Idea: Fund school choice options for parents amid coronavirus

David McIntosh, president of The Club for Growth and a former Republican congressman from Indiana, has what he believes is a solution to the problem of schools being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic: give parents greater flexibility聽should their districts decide to keep classrooms shuttered this fall.

The Big Idea July 31, 2020

Sen. Tammy Duckworth's Big Idea: A Marshall Plan for coal country

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., wants to give struggling coal聽communities a jolt of new federal investment and help transition out-of-work miners into new jobs and cleaner energy production.聽

The Big Idea July 24, 2020

Stephen Moore鈥檚 Big Idea: Replace federal income tax with national sales tax

Stephen Moore, a member of President Trump鈥檚 economic recovery task force and an economist at FreedomWorks, has a bold idea for how to reinvigorate the economy.

The Big Idea July 17, 2020

Ivanka Trump鈥檚 Big Idea: Overhaul government hiring to prioritize job skills over college degrees

Trump, a聽co-chair of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, has urged the government to engage in hiring practices to 鈥渂etter recognize the talents and competencies of all Americans鈥� it hires.

The Big Idea June 26, 2020

Robert Johnson's Big Idea: $14 trillion in slavery reparations to African-Americans

Johnson, the first black billionaire in the United States, has put a price tag on the debt America owes to African-Americans聽at $14 trillion.

The Big Idea June 19, 2020

Sen. Josh Hawley鈥檚 Big Idea: Allow Americans to sue Big Tech for selective political censorship

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants to give Americans the ability to sue major tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter if those companies are believed to engage in selective censorship of political speech.

The Big Idea June 12, 2020

Jim Jordan鈥檚 Big Idea: Enact FISA reform to fix 'system-wide problem'

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, says reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is paramount to protecting U.S. citizens鈥� right to privacy, warning that if a president of the United States can fall victim to misconduct, so can the average American.

The Big Idea June 5, 2020

Sen. Rick Scott's Big Idea: Impose congressional term limits

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., says he doesn't think that politicians should get to make careers out of working in Washington.聽

The Big Idea May 29, 2020

Rep. Tim Ryan's Big Idea: Giving Americans a mental timeout

The Big Idea is a series that asks top lawmakers and officials to discuss their moonshot 鈥� what鈥檚 the one proposal, if politics and polls and even price tag were not an issue, they鈥檇 implement to change the country for the better?