Help me to continue to save your tax dollars

Help me to continue to save your tax dollars

This year, thanks to a fiscally conservative office budget, including an emphasis on electronic correspondence and face to face meetings over mailers, I was able to return approximately $104,000 in unspent office funds to the U.S. Treasury to be applied toward deficit reduction. It represented nearly 8 percent of my budget for 2013. This is on top of the $167,080 cut to my budget from the sequester and other changes. The previous year I returned $172,143.52 to the Treasury. Since joining the House in September 2011, I returned approximately $370,000.

In the face of a $17.3 trillion federal debt, I think it is a sign of basic respect to Nevadans and Americans to run a fiscally conservative office while offering the greatest possible service to my constituents at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers.

I have supported provisions to cut my personal office's operating budget by 11.4percent. I voted in favor of extending a pay freeze for Members of Congress and federal employees and eliminated two vacant staff positions, one in my Washington, D.C. office and one in my Reno Office. I support and have voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment.

Will you please help me to continue to save your tax dollars by choosing our paperless option for correspondence? By making this low-cost choice, you will be updated about my work on your behalf in Congress while assisting my effort to reduce expenses and paper waste. To me, home means Nevada and it is a honor to serve the Silver State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Thank you,

Congressman Mark E. Amodei