Launching Repeal Task Force, Connie Mack Takes Aim at Obama

While he did not enter the competitive Republican primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack showed this week that he has no intention of heading to the political sidelines.

On Wednesday, Mack, who had been named chairman of the Repeal Task Force set up by the Republican Study Committee earlier in the month, unveiled his new group and came out swinging at the presidents speech on the national debt made earlier in the day.

Washingtons knee-jerk reaction for too long has been to introduce more and more legislation to solve societys problems, insisted Mack. The task force launching today is assembled to change that narrative and start peeling back a government that is bloated and needs a diet to make this countrys economy more agile and make our government more efficient and effective.

How ironic that at the same time we are talking about reducing government in the House, the president is punting off the tough spending decisions and protracting our nation's debt problem for the next two decades, added Mack.

Joined by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, and seven other congressmen,Mack said the task force would look to repeal the federal health-care law that Obama backed, energy mandates, and the Davis-Bacon Act which requires that employees working on public projects are paid prevailing wages. Mack and members of the task force argue that Davis-Bacon, which was signed into law in 1931 by Herbert Hoover and crafted by then-U.S. Sen. James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, who served as U.S. labor secretary under Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Hoover, hinders small businesses looking to obtain federal contracts.