Elected officials should prioritize long-term fiscal stability over short-term political concerns regarding re-election.

“the solution to those fiscal problems require sacrifice in the short term and elected officials are not willing to sacrifice anything in the short term because it means that they may not get re-elected and if their number one goal is to survive then they're not going to make the hard decisions”

Eli Crane believes that a representative's role is to vote in accordance with the wishes of the people who elected them, even when it conflicts with personal inclinations.

“you're a representative you know you represent this this amount of people you're supposed to be their voice there so what do you do right do you go with what you you're pretty confident the people in your District want you to do or do you go with your gut and I went with what I thought that you know”

Expanding the House of Representatives is the most effective way to limit the incentive and impact of gerrymandering in legislative districts.

“So, if you increase the size of the house, you're going to limit the incentive for gerrymandering, right? Because now you have more house districts, it's going to be harder.”

The national debt cannot be meaningfully addressed without reforming entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

“The reality is the national debt ain't going to get solved until you touch precisely the entitlement programs that no one is going to touch ever and until you touch Medicare Medicaid Social Security you are not going to be able to tackle the national debt”

The House and Senate are required to pass identical text for a bill to become law.

“At the end of the day, here's what I want you to remember. If the text is not identical, there is no law. The Senate and the House have to pass identical text. That is what it comes down to.”