Republican Study Committee
caucus in the US Congress
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) is a congressional caucus of conservative members of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives. In November 2024, Representative August Pfluger was elected as the chair of the RSC, effective as of January 2025.
Although the primary functions of the RSC vary from year to year, it has always pushed for significant cuts in non-defense spending, advocated socially conservative legislation, and supported the right to keep and bear arms. It has proposed an alternative budget every year since 1995. In 2007, in conjunction with the unveiling of its "Taxpayer Bill of Rights", it presented an alternative budget resolution that it claimed would balance the budget within five years without increasing income taxes.
Entering the 119th United States Congress, the RSC was the largest conservative caucus in Congress with 188 members, of which 25 members were also members of the Freedom Caucus and 25 are also members of the Republican Governance Group.
Initiatives
The RSC's legislative initiatives are detailed in the American Taxpayer Bill of Rights, unveiled in March 2007.
Taxpayers have a right to have a federal government that does not grow beyond their ability to pay for it.
Taxpayers have a right to receive back each dollar that they entrust to the government for their retirement.
Taxpayers have a right to expect the government to balance the budget without having their taxes raised.
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