To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Responsible Government Petition
We, the undersigned, respectfully request that members of Congress and candidates for Congress take and respect the following Responsible Government Pledge:
"I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent you, I will never vote to shut down your government, or to place your government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues."
"I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent you, I will never vote to shut down your government, or to place your government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues."
Why is this important?
It is critically important that we act now, while the breathtaking irresponsibility of shutting down our democracy over disagreements on unrelated issues is on full display, so that this will never happen again. We cannot afford to allow our government to hold our economy hostage and gamble with the livelihood of all Americans to advance ideological agendas.