Dr. Paul Broun, M.D. is hoping to return to the U.S. Congress. He was first elected in a special election in 2007 and was re-elected in 2008 – serving two more terms until 2014 when he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Broun was the first to announce his candidacy after current U.S. Rep. Jody Hice announced that he would not seek re-election but would be running to become Georgia’s next Secretary of State.
Broun also sought election to the U.S. House in 2016 to represent the 9th Congressional District but was defeated by incumbent Doug Collins in the Republican primary.
Paul Broun
“When I left Washington in 2015, it was bad. It is much worse today,” Broun said, when announcing his candidacy. “Spending has been spiraling out of control, and Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats. There’s only a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties. Spending on such an unprecedented scale will cause hyperinflation and eventually the financial collapse of America.”
There are at least nine Republicans and three Democrats who have said they are running for the 10th Congressional District in the 2022 election. Georgia’s 10th district currently includes parts of the Athens and Augusta areas, Milledgeville and Johnson County.
Broun believes his experience will play a critical role in the election, stating that if elected, he will enter Congress with seven and a half years of seniority, which gives him priority to become the highest-ranking Republican on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. Broun chaired that subcommittee when Republicans still held the majority and has pledged to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and the public health response to it if he regains that gavel.
“This is not so much about what I will do as much as what I will prevent from happening,” Broun said “I will expose and block the liberal agenda with every fiber of my being. I did it before, and I will do it again.”
He goes on to say that voters know what to expect from him because he never voted for a tax hike, omnibus bill, or debt ceiling increase and introduced the most targeted spending cuts during his previous time in Congress. He also claims to have, “introduced more targeted spending cuts than any other member of Congress.”
“With one-party rule in Washington, we need a proven fighter for liberty and freedom to restore constitutional restraints on the federal government,” said Broun. “I’m a Marine veteran and family physician who understands basic economics, that something cannot come from nothing. That’s Washington’s worst nightmare.”
Broun lists his issues as: Education, Pro-Life, the 2nd Amendment, the U.S. Constitution, No Amnesty, Jobs and Economy, Government Spending and Health Care.
On education, Broun says, “Moving foward requires sending powers back to the states and getting federal bureaucrats out of local education decisions. To act on this during my previous time in Congress, I introduced a bill to abolish the Department of Education.”
He says if elected, he will “immediately put forth a bill to completely eliminate the Department of Education, to fully and finally repeal No Child Left Behind, and to put a complete stop to Common Core once and for all.”
On government spending, Broun says, “Our federal government is completely out of control. The future of our Republic depends on our ability and willingness to get federal spending under control. We’ve simply got to stop the outrageous spending in Washington, pay down the debt, and balance the budget.”
Broun graduated from the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia. Several years before his election to Congress in 2007, Broun developed a practice devoted entirely to house calls. At age 18, he volunteered as a U.S. Marine. He was later commissioned as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy.
