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Hon. Gus Bilirakis, Member of Congress (CD-FL-12)
2306 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5755, (352) 691-1231
Cc: Sens. Rick Scott, Ashley Moody, John Thune, Chuck Schumer, and John Fetterman
Cc: Reps. Laurel M. Lee, Scott Franklin, Hakeem Jeffries, and Kathy Castor
Cc: My two friends, Professor Dr. R. Bruce Anderson and Professor (and former MOC) Dennis A. Ross, who I am sure will appreciate the exchange between my father and your father, former MOC, Michael Bilirakis (attached and linked), as they are both honest political professors of differing political parties
Subject: Follow-up: Bipartisan Middleman-Elimination Plan That Saves Taxpayers Trillions (Press Inquiry)
Dear Congressman Bilirakis:
I'm not sure if you'll remember me (although we are “Facebook friends” on your personal account), but I'm Gordon Wayne Watts, son of the late Bobby Watts, a friend of your father's. I quick perusal of Google reveals that he's still alive, at the age of 95 years, having been born on July 16, 1930. That is very impressive! Before I tell you my purpose for communication, please make a note to tell your father hello from Gordon, son of Bobby Watts, on behalf of my late father. As you may recall, he ran the BOBBY WATTS SPEED SHOP & AUTO/ENGINE PARTS stores in central Florida from 1966 til his untimely passing on 5-3-2018, was friends with (and briefly worked for) legendary Dragster, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, who, at the age of 93, just two years younger than your father, is still active with his Drag Racing museum in Ocala, FL – and, last I heard, is still considered by many to be the #1 Drag Racer of all time. For context, below is a link to my own online museum for my father's “Project America,” where I posted a postal mail exchange between my father and former Congressman Michael Bilirakis, your father (and attached as a PDF):
* https://ContractWithAmerica2.com/BobbyWattsSpeedShop_MUSEUM.html#pa
Obit:
* https://www.Legacy.com/us/obituaries/theledger/name/robert-watts-obituary?id=11961615
* https://ContractWithAmerica2.com/Obit_BobbyWatts.html
Now that I've given you sufficient, albeit cursory, context of how we know (or know of) each other, I’m Gordon Wayne Watts from Plant City, Florida — National Director of Contract With America: Part II®™ (https://ContractWithAmerica2.com) and the same Gordon Wayne Watts who, as next friend of Terri Schiavo, forced a 4-3 split on rehearing at the Florida Supreme Court (SC03-2420) when Governor Jeb Bush was denied 7-0 on the same issue months later, and outperformed Terri’s own family percentage-wise on appeal, writing you in my capacity as a journalist aka Conservative Press.
On November 5, I emailed key central Florida delegation and House/Senate leadership about a proven, conservative way to eliminate health-insurance and student-loan middlemen, directly fund providers and colleges (like conservative Polk County already does successfully with indigent care), and generate enough savings to cover “free” healthcare/higher-ed at a net lower cost to taxpayers — getting Democrat votes to prevent future shutdowns. I noticed your office was inadvertently left off that initial list.
My letter explaining the mechanism was published in The Ledger (Nov 9) and republished by Yahoo News; the concept was debated on C-SPAN Washington Journal (Nov 14) by multiple Florida callers. Links attached for your staff’s quick review:
The Ledger / Yahoo News letter:
https://www.Yahoo.com/news/articles/bipartisan-fix-shutdown-voice-people-100217408.html
Terri Schiavo filings (proof it’s the same Gordon Watts):
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2004/10/04-925reh.pdf
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200511556.pdf
Contract With America: Part II®™ site: https://ContractWithAmerica2.com
C-SPAN clips of the discussion: https://www.C-Span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-1/669070
This is the rare idea that is fiscally conservative (massive spending cuts), pro-life (prevents rationing), and politically viable right now with the ACA subsidy cliff looming Dec 31. The idea: eliminate health-insurance and student-loan middlemen entirely and directly fund providers and colleges (exactly like ultra-conservative Polk County already does with indigent care, and like America did with nearly-free college a generation ago). This generates enough administrative savings to cover “free-at-point-of-service” healthcare and higher ed at a net lower cost to taxpayers — the only idea that is simultaneously fiscally conservative (trillions in real spending cuts), pro-life (ends rationing), and bipartisan (gets Democrat votes to prevent Shutdown 2.0). It finishes what President Trump started when he pivoted to middleman elimination on Nov 8. Happy to brief you or your staff anytime. Thank you, and may God grant you wisdom in this critical hour.
See also attached copy of my letter which published in print and online at THE LEDGWER and YAHOO! NEWS.
With the ACA enhanced subsidies expiring in 40 days and premiums about to explode, this is the rare reform that actually lowers total spending while covering everyone.
In His service,
Gordon Wayne Watts
National Director, Contract With America: Part II™
Plant City, FL
[phone] • [email]
Here’s
your revised draft.
Key changes:
Politely points out that Trump’s HSA/direct-to-patient model still keeps most middlemen in place (and thus costs taxpayers more than it should).
Gives Trump full credit and saves his face by framing the HSA idea as a bold first step — then positions your direct-to-provider hybrid as the “conservative upgrade” that finishes what he started and actually eliminates the profiteers he hates.
Keeps the tone respectful, pro-Trump, and fiscally conservative.
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Subject: Conservative Upgrade to President Trump’s Middleman-Elimination Idea – Saves Taxpayers Even More (Florida Press Inquiry)
Hon.
Gus Bilirakis
Member of Congress (FL-12)
2306 Rayburn
HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5755
Cc:
Sens.
Rick Scott, Ashley Moody, John Thune, Chuck Schumer, John
Fetterman
Cc: Reps. Laurel Lee, Scott Franklin, Hakeem Jeffries,
Kathy Castor
Cc: Professor R. Bruce Anderson & Professor
Dennis A. Ross
Subject: Conservative Upgrade to President Trump’s Middleman-Elimination Idea – Saves Taxpayers Even More (Florida Press Inquiry)
Dear Congressman Bilirakis,
First, please pass along a warm hello to your father, former Congressman Michael Bilirakis (still going strong at 95!), from Gordon Watts — son of the late Bobby Watts of Bobby Watts Speed Shop in Plant city and Lakeland. Dad always spoke highly of your father’s integrity — and was proud to have been friends with (and briefly worked for) the legendary “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, still considered by many the #1 drag racer of all time and still active with his museum in Ocala at 93. For a quick smile from history: I posted the short, handwritten late-1983/early-1984 postal exchange between our fathers about “Project America” (dad’s concern for the need for unity between American citizens and Government to face our many foes). It’s a gem — your dad was gracious and encouraging even though the idea never got off the ground.
Link (30-second read): https://ContractWithAmerica2.com/BobbyWattsSpeedShop_MUSEUM.html#pa
(Archived copies attached as PDF for convenience.)
I’m Gordon Wayne Watts from Plant City — National Director of Contract With America: Part II®™ (https://ContractWithAmerica2.com) and the same Gordon Wayne Watts who, as next friend of Terri Schiavo, forced a 4-3 split on rehearing at the Florida Supreme Court (SC03-2420) when Governor Jeb Bush (SC04-925) was shut out 7-0 on the same issue. I’m writing in my capacity as a journalist and conservative activist because I realized your office was inadvertently omitted from my November 5 press inquiry to the Florida delegation and leadership.
The idea is simple and proven conservative: completely eliminate health-insurance and student-loan middlemen and directly fund hospitals, doctors, and colleges instead — exactly like ultra-red Polk County, Fla. already does with indigent care (PolkCare) and like we used to do with nearly-free public college in your parents and grandparents' era, as you may recall. This generates so much administrative waste savings that “free-at-point-of-service” healthcare and higher education actually cost taxpayers **less** overall — while getting Democrat votes to prevent “Shutdowns 2.0.”
President Trump took a huge step in the right direction on November 8 when he pivoted to eliminating middlemen and redirecting subsidies into patient-controlled HSAs. That was bold and populist — but the HSA model still routes most catastrophic coverage through private insurers, so the same middlemen he rightly calls “money-sucking” stay in the game and keep skimming 12-18 % off the top.
The true conservative finish is the direct-to-provider model Polk County, Fla. already proves works — and the only force under heaven that will make lobbyists see the handwriting on the wall and back off is the restoration of standard consumer bankruptcy protection on student loans (bills already sponsored by very conservative Republicans:
H.R.5899 (116th) – Reps. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) & Ralph Norman (R-SC)
S.2598 (117th) – Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) & John Cornyn (R-TX)
Bankruptcy availability forces lenders to behave, slashes predatory lending, and removes the lobbyist blockade so the direct-fund model can finally pass — just like seat-belt laws forced car makers to build safer cars. (If you disagree, please tell me why Trump was unable to get rid of student loan middlemen and eliminate the Dept of Ed as he's been trying to do for ages! Lack of political forces to make profiteering lobbyists & middleman “back off.”)
My letter explaining the mechanism was published in The Ledger (Nov 9) and republished by Yahoo News; the concept was debated by multiple Florida callers on C-SPAN Washington Journal (Nov 14).Quick links:
The
Ledger / Yahoo
letter:
https://www.theledger.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/11/09/a-bipartisan-fix-to-the-shutdown-voice-of-the-people-nov-9-2025/87123076007/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bipartisan-fix-shutdown-voice-people-100217408.html
Terri Schiavo filings (proof it’s me):
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2004/10/04-925reh.pdf
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200511556.pdf
…and
the two other links
Main site: https://ContractWithAmerica2.com
C-SPAN segment: https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-1/669070
With the enhanced ACA subsidies expiring in just 40 days and premiums about to explode, this Trump-upgrade is the rare reform that:
actually lowers total spending (real conservative wins),
ends rationing (pro-life),
covers everyone, and
gets bipartisan votes to avoid Shutdown 2.0.
Our “formal” press inquiry is a simple query as to whether you (and other lawmakers in this chain) agree with all 3 key proposals we advocate to help lawmakers find this as a bipartisan solution:
((1)) Fully eliminating health-insurance middlemen via direct provider funding (successful Polk County model Trump began moving toward) saves taxpayers while providing “free” healthcare.
((2)) Eliminating student-loan middlemen and restoring nearly-free public college (like Trump’s 2019 borrowing caps and repeated calls to eliminate the Dept. of Education).
((3)) Restoring standard bankruptcy protection on student loans (GOP-led bills: Grothman/Norman HR.5899, 116TH Hawley/Cornyn S.2598, 117TH, or current-session bills, HR.4444/HR.423) — the only proven force to make lobbyists back off and allow #1 and #2 to pass.
SOURCES: “Trump Proposes Limits On Student Loan Borrowing,” By Zack Friedman, FORBES, Tue. March 19, 2019 – or outright elimination of US Dept of Education – like Trump has repeatedly called for) and provide “free” college like our grandparents had (and same model as we do with 5TH grade – and successful models in Germany, too) saves taxpayers while providing “free” college.
** https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/03/19/trump-proposes-limits-on-student-loans
** https://archive.vn/Sa8n1 ** https://web.archive.org/web/20210308132739/https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/03/19/trump-proposes-limits-on-student-loans
We would welcome even a brief response from you or your staff on whether this Trump-upgrade + bankruptcy restoration is a direction worth pursuing before the subsidy cliff hits – – and hope these solutions can grant both Democrats and Republicans satisfaction – and avoid a risky “Shutdown 2.0.”
Happy to brief you or your staff anytime — in person or by phone.
Thank you, and may God grant you and all our leaders wisdom in this critical hour.
In
His service,
Gordon Wayne Watts
National Director, Contract
With America: Part II®™
Plant City, FL
[phone] •
[email]
Grok, here's what I sent, including attachments and Bcc recipients, and it was pretty and in colour with font and bold face where needed.
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Forwarded message ---------
From: Gordon
Wayne Watts, Natl Dir, CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II®™,
e.g., is a registered
trademark <gordon@contractwithamerica2.com>
Date:
Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Subject:
Conservative Upgrade to President Trump’s Middleman-Elimination
Idea – Saves Taxpayers Even More (Florida Press Inquiry)
To:
<Gus.Bilirakis@mail.house.gov>,
<info@bilirakisforcongress.com>,
<Summer.Blevins@mail.house.gov>,
<summer.robertson@mail.house.gov>
Cc: <Gww1210@gmail.com>, Gordon <gordon@gordonwatts.com>, gordon <gordon@gordonwaynewatts.com>, <Gordon@contractwithamerica2.com>, summer.robertson@mail.house.gov <Randerson2@flsouthern.edu>, <DARoss@seu.edu>, <RepLaurelLeeFL15@mail.house.gov>, <Laurel.M.Lee@mail.house.gov>, <McKinley_Lewis@aging.senate.gov>, <mckinley_lewis@rickscott.senate.gov>, <Whitney_Ray@moody.senate.gov>, <Katie_Lingle@thune.senate.gov>, <ryan_wrasse@thune.senate.gov>, <maya_mau@schumer.senate.gov>, <paige_tepke@schumer.senate.gov>, <Ally_Biasotti@schumer.senate.gov>, <taylor.haulsee@mail.house.gov>, <hayden.haynes@mail.house.gov>, <hakeem@hakeemjeffries.com>, <Hakeem.Jeffries@mail.house.gov>, <Ashley.Etienne@mail.house.gov>, <tasia.jackson@mail.house.gov>, <andy.eichar@mail.house.gov>, <Cathy@jeffriesforcongress.com>, <JeffriesCommsTeam@mail.house.gov>, <newsroom@fetterman.senate.gov>
Bcc: Alan Collinge <alanmcollinge@gmail.com>, Alan Collinge <alan@studentloanjustice.org>, Alan Collinge <justice@studentloanjustice.org>, Gus@bilirakisforcongress.com, Press@bilirakisforcongress.com, elizabeth.hittos@mail.house.gov, jonathan.vecchi@mail.house.gov, tyler.grimes@mail.house.gov, cjones@mail.house.gov, dross71803@aol.com, angelo_roefaro@schumer.senate.gov, alex_nguyen@schumer.senate.gov, andy.phelan8@gmail.com, andy.phelan@mail.house.gov, zoe.oreck@mail.house.gov, jessica_mcbride@thune.senate.gov, jason_vanbeek@thune.senate.gov, ryan_nelson@thune.senate.gov, griffin.neal@mail.house.gov, Kevin.Avila@mail.house.gov, John.Ryan@mail.house.gov, chip.layton@mail.house.gov, melissa.wolfe@mail.house.gov, Web@virginiafoxx.com, Melissa.Kelly@mail.house.gov, Melissa.Kelley@mail.house.gov, RepRalph.Norman@mail.house.gov, Nick.Barley@mail.house.gov, Nick.Adams@mail.house.gov, liam.holley@mail.house.gov, Suparna.Narayan@mail.house.gov, Katie_Lingle@thune.senate.gov, ryan_wrasse@thune.senate.gov, Scott.Franklin@mail.house.gov, Scott@votescottfranklin.com, hakeem@hakeemjeffries.com, Hakeem.Jeffries@mail.house.gov, Ashley.Etienne@mail.house.gov, angelo_roefaro@schumer.senate.gov, maya_mau@schumer.senate.gov, paige_tepke@schumer.senate.gov, Ally_Biasotti@schumer.senate.gov, alex_nguyen@schumer.senate.gov, tasia.jackson@mail.house.gov, andy.eichar@mail.house.gov, zoe.oreck@mail.house.gov, jessica_mcbride@thune.senate.gov, jason_vanbeek@thune.senate.gov, ryan_nelson@thune.senate.gov, griffin.neal@mail.house.gov, chip.layton@mail.house.gov, hayden.haynes@mail.house.gov, Cathy@jeffriesforcongress.com, JeffriesCommsTeam@mail.house.gov, Belen.Sassone@mail.house.gov, Darren.Soto@mail.house.gov, Christine.Biron@mail.house.gov, Sheyla.Asencios@mail.house.gov, web@virginiafoxx.com, Payton.Fuller@mail.house.gov, Meredith.Turton@mail.house.gov, selena_king@fetterman.senate.gov, Scott_Rykala@fetterman.senate.gov, mitchel_henderson@fetterman.senate.gov, Adam_Jentleson@Fetterman.Senate.gov, Bobby_Maggio@Fetterman.Senate.gov, Emma_Mustion@Fetterman.Senate.gov, Joe_Calvello@Fetterman.Senate.gov, Nick_Gavio@Fetterman.Senate.gov, hello@johnfetterman.com, press@johnfetterman.com, elizabeth_casertano@fetterman.senate.gov, christina_kauffman@fetterman.senate.gov, mikecia_witherspoon@fetterman.senate.gov,
ATTACHMENTS:
** TheLedger_Letters_Sun09November2025_Watts_PDF.pdf
** Trump_Nov-8-2025_Statement_TruthSocial_MiddlemanEliminationActions.pdf
** GrothmanPressRelease-HR4563_117th.pdf
** WATTS__Nov-5-2025_SolutionForLawmakers_Shutdown_EMAIL.pdf
** MichaelBilirakis-Response-and-OriginalLetter.pdf
Subject: Conservative Upgrade to President Trump’s Middleman-Elimination Idea – Saves Taxpayers Even More (Florida Press Inquiry)
Date: Friday, 21 November 2025
Hon.
Gus Bilirakis
Member of Congress (FL-12)
2306 Rayburn
HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5755
Cc:
Sens. Rick Scott, Ashley Moody, John Thune, Chuck Schumer, John
Fetterman
Cc: Reps. Laurel Lee, Scott Franklin, Hakeem Jeffries,
Kathy Castor
Cc: Professor R. Bruce Anderson & Professor
Dennis A. Ross
Dear Congressman Bilirakis,
First, please pass along a warm hello to your father, former Congressman Michael Bilirakis (still going strong at 95!), from Gordon Watts — son of the late Bobby Watts of Bobby Watts Speed Shop in Plant city and Lakeland. Dad always spoke highly of your father’s integrity — and was proud to have been friends with (and briefly worked for) the legendary “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, still considered by many the #1 drag racer of all time and still active with his museum in Ocala at 93. For a quick smile from history: I posted the short, handwritten late-1983/early-1984 postal exchange between our fathers about “Project America” (dad’s concern for the need for unity between American citizens and Government to face our many foes). It’s a gem — your dad was gracious and encouraging even though the idea never got off the ground.
Link (30-second read): https://ContractWithAmerica2.com/BobbyWattsSpeedShop_MUSEUM.html#pa
(Archived copies attached as PDF for convenience.)
I’m Gordon Wayne Watts from Plant City — National Director of Contract With America: Part II®™ (https://ContractWithAmerica2.com) and the same Gordon Wayne Watts who, as next friend of Terri Schiavo, forced a 4-3 split on rehearing at the Florida Supreme Court (SC03-2420) when Governor Jeb Bush (SC04-925) was shut out 7-0 on the same issue. I’m writing in my capacity as a journalist and conservative activist because I realized your office was inadvertently omitted from my November 5 press inquiry to the Florida delegation and leadership.
The idea is simple and proven conservative: completely eliminate health-insurance and student-loan middlemen and directly fund hospitals, doctors, and colleges instead — exactly like ultra-red Polk County, Fla. already does with indigent care (PolkCare) and like we used to do with nearly-free public college in your parents and grandparents' era, as you may recall. This generates so much administrative waste savings that “free-at-point-of-service” healthcare and higher education actually cost taxpayers **less** overall — while getting Democrat votes to prevent “Shutdowns 2.0.”
President Trump took a huge step in the right direction on November 8 when he pivoted to eliminating middlemen and redirecting subsidies into patient-controlled HSAs. That was bold and populist — but the HSA model still routes most catastrophic coverage through private insurers, so the same middlemen he rightly calls “money-sucking” stay in the game and keep skimming 12-18 % off the top.
The true conservative finish is the direct-to-provider model Polk County, Fla. already proves works — and the only force under heaven that will make lobbyists see the handwriting on the wall and back off is the restoration of standard consumer bankruptcy protection on student loans (bills already sponsored by very conservative Republicans:
H.R.5899 (116th) – Reps. Glenn Grothman (R-WI-06) & Ralph Norman (R-SC-05) https://www.Congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5899/cosponsors
S.2598 (117th) – Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) & John Cornyn (R-TX) https://www.Congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2598/cosponsors
Bankruptcy availability forces lenders to behave, slashes predatory lending, and removes the lobbyist blockade so the direct-fund model can finally pass — just like seat-belt laws forced car makers to build safer cars. (If you disagree, please tell me why Trump was unable to get rid of student loan middlemen and eliminate the Dept of Ed as he's been trying to do for ages! Lack of political forces to make profiteering lobbyists & middleman “back off.”)
My letter explaining the mechanism was published in The Ledger (Nov 9) and republished by Yahoo News; the concept was debated by multiple Florida callers on C-SPAN Washington Journal (Nov 14).Quick links:
The
Ledger / Yahoo letter: (linked and attached for your
convenience)
https://www.theledger.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/11/09/a-bipartisan-fix-to-the-shutdown-voice-of-the-people-nov-9-2025/87123076007/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bipartisan-fix-shutdown-voice-people-100217408.html
Terri Schiavo filings (proof it’s me):
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2004/10/04-925reh.pdf
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200511556.pdf
…and
the two other links
Main site: https://ContractWithAmerica2.com News/Blogging: https://GordonWatts.com / https://GordonWayneWatts.com
C-SPAN segment: https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-1/669070
With the enhanced ACA subsidies expiring in just 40 days and premiums about to explode, this Trump-upgrade is the rare reform that:
actually lowers total spending (real conservative wins),
ends rationing (pro-life),
covers everyone, and
gets bipartisan votes to avoid Shutdown 2.0.
Our “formal” press inquiry is a simple query as to whether you (and other lawmakers in this chain) agree with all 3 key proposals we advocate to help lawmakers find this as a bipartisan solution:
((1)) Fully eliminating health-insurance middlemen via direct provider funding (successful Polk County, Fla. model Trump began moving toward) saves taxpayers while providing “free” healthcare.
((2)) Eliminating student-loan middlemen and restoring nearly-free public college (like Trump’s 2019 borrowing caps and repeated calls to eliminate the Dept. of Education).
((3)) Restoring standard bankruptcy protection on student loans (GOP-led bills: Grothman/Norman HR.5899, 116th Hawley/Cornyn S.2598, 117th, or current-session bills, HR.4444/HR.423, 119th) — the only proven force to make lobbyists back off and allow #1 and #2 to pass.
SOURCES: “Trump Proposes Limits On Student Loan Borrowing,” By Zack Friedman, FORBES, Tue. March 19, 2019 – or outright elimination of US Dept of Education – like Trump has repeatedly called for) and provide “free” college like our grandparents had (and same model as we do with 5TH grade – and successful models in Germany, too) saves taxpayers while providing “free” college.
** https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/03/19/trump-proposes-limits-on-student-loans
** https://archive.vn/Sa8n1 ** https://web.archive.org/web/20210308132739/https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/03/19/trump-proposes-limits-on-student-loans
** https://www.Congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/423/ And: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4444/text
We would welcome even a brief response from you or your staff on whether this Trump-upgrade + bankruptcy restoration is a direction worth pursuing before the subsidy cliff hits – – and hope these solutions can grant both Democrats and Republicans satisfaction – and avoid a risky “Shutdown 2.0.”
Happy to brief you or your staff anytime — in person or by phone.
Thank you, and may God grant you and all our leaders wisdom in this critical hour.
In His service,
Gordon
Wayne Watts
National Director, Contract With America: Part
II®™
Plant City, FL
[863-687-6141 / 863-688-9880] •
[ Gordon@ContractWithAmerica2.com / Gww1210@gmail.com ]
On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM Gordon Wayne Watts, Natl Dir, CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II®™, e.g., is a registered trademark <Gordon@ContractWithAmerica2.com>
Congr. Laurel Lee
Cc: as indicated
Main subject: "Solution for lawmakers regarding shutdown **"
SUBJECT 1: A response as a constituent (to you and Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody)
SUBJECT 2: Press inquiry to other lawmakers in cc and Bcc line
Thank you for acknowledging my prior request, Congresswoman Lee. As you can see from the 2 submissions to The Times and The Ledger, which follow up on two previously published letters, I expound on the benefits of cutting the healthcare and student loan middlemen -- something Pres. Trump wanted to do: https://ContractWithAmerica2.com/#middleman
Seeing you still are unable to fix the problem, what do you think of my proposals? All 4 letters (2 submitted and 2 published) are attached.
If you offer "free" college and "free" healthcare, I bet Democrats forget about stupid (and costly) subsidies -- and vote to reopen the government. More-importantly, it saves taxpayers trillions if you do it my way. (Or crash the dollar if you are careless -- but I hope you at least try: My compromise doesn't compromise conservative fiscal values, and saves tax dollar$.)
As your constituent (Sens. Moody and Rick Scott and Rep. Laurel Lee), I'd like you to weigh in on Representative Grothman and Norman's H.R.5899 (116th) and Senators Hawley and Cornyn's S.2598 (117th) stolidly-conservative-backed student loan bankruptcy legislation which is the only thing short of a miracle to force down irresponsible lending:
https://www.Congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2598/cosponsors
https://www.Congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5899/cosponsors
As a solid Conservative, Rep. Lee, you know "More guns = less crime," and likewise, "more bankruptcy self-defense" y students = "less irresponsible lending" on my tax dollar. I don't want a crash of the dollar, but you lawmakers didn't heed my last couple letters, and kept spending. Now, here we are -- take a look at my proposal. To the other lawmakers (such as Rep. Scott Franklin, who was my member of congress before district lines changed), I ask for your response to this as a "Press Inquiry," from me -- as Conservative Press.
Gordon
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Date: 10/22/25 2:14 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Mr. Gordon Wayne Watts" <gordon@contractwithamerica2.com>
Subject: From the Desk of Congresswoman Laurel Lee
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Gordon Wayne Watts, editor-in-chief, The Register
www.GordonWayneWatts.com / www.GordonWatts.com
National Director, CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II®
[[LEGAL: "CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II" is ®™, e.g., a registered trademark]]
https://ContractWithAmerica2.com
ALWAYS
FAITHFUL - To
God
--
Gordon Wayne Watts, editor-in-chief, The Register
www.GordonWayneWatts.com / www.GordonWatts.com
National Director, CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II®
[[LEGAL: “CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II” is ®™, e.g., a registered trademark]]
https://ContractWithAmerica2.com
ALWAYS
FAITHFUL - To God
BS,
The Florida State University, double major with
honours: Biological & Chemical Sciences
AS, United Electronics Institute, VALEDICTORIAN
* https://GordonWatts.com/education
* https://GordonWayneWatts.com/education
2046
Pleasant Acre Drive, Plant City, FL 33801-2113
Home: (863)
687-6141 ; Cell: (863) 688-9880
See
also: http://Gordon_Watts.Tripod.com/consumer.html
Gww1210@aol.com ; Gww1210@Gmail.com
Truth
is the strongest, most stable force in the Universe
Truth
doesn't change because you disbelieve it
TRUTH
doesn't bend to the will of
tyrants
www.GordonWayneWatts.com / www.GordonWatts.com
Get
Truth.
"First,
they [Nazis] came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then
they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a
trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak
for me." (Martin Niemöller, given credit for a quotation in
The Harper Religious and Inspirational Quotation Companion, ed.
Margaret Pepper (New York: Harper &Row, 1989), 429 -as cited on
page 44, note 17, of Religious Cleansing in the American Republic, by
Keith A. Fornier, Copyright 1993, by Liberty, Life, and Family
Publications.
Some
versions have Mr. Niemöller saying: "Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant";
other versions have him saying that they came for Socialists,
Industrialists, schools, the press, and/or the Church; however, it's
certain he DID say SOMETHING like this. Actually, they may not have
come for the Jews first, as it's more likely they came for the
prisoners, mentally handicapped, & other so-called "inferiors"
first -as historians tell us -so they could get "practiced up";
however, they did come for them -due to the silence of their
neighbors -and due in part to their own silence. So: "Speak
up now or forever hold your peace!"-GWW
///
--
Gordon Wayne Watts, editor-in-chief, The Register
www.GordonWayneWatts.com / www.GordonWatts.com
National Director, CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II®
[[LEGAL: “CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: PART II” is ®™, e.g., a registered trademark]]
https://ContractWithAmerica2.com
ALWAYS
FAITHFUL - To
God
BS,
The Florida State University, double major with
honours: Biological & Chemical Sciences
AS, United Electronics Institute, VALEDICTORIAN
* https://GordonWatts.com/education
* https://GordonWayneWatts.com/education
2046
Pleasant Acre Drive, Plant City, FL 33801-2113
Home: (863)
687-6141 ; Cell:
(863) 688-9880
See
also: http://Gordon_Watts.Tripod.com/consumer.html
Gww1210@aol.com ; Gww1210@Gmail.com
Truth
is the strongest, most stable force in the Universe
Truth
doesn't change because you disbelieve it
TRUTH
doesn't bend to the will of
tyrants
www.GordonWayneWatts.com / www.GordonWatts.com
Get
Truth.
"First,
they [Nazis] came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then
they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was
not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was
silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was
no one left to speak for me." (Martin Niemöller, given
credit for a quotation in The Harper Religious and Inspirational
Quotation Companion, ed. Margaret Pepper (New York: Harper &Row,
1989), 429 -as cited on page 44, note 17, of Religious Cleansing in
the American Republic, by Keith A. Fornier, Copyright 1993, by
Liberty, Life, and Family Publications.
Some
versions have Mr. Niemöller saying: "Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant";
other versions have him saying that they came for Socialists,
Industrialists, schools, the press, and/or the Church; however, it's
certain he DID say SOMETHING like this. Actually, they may not have
come for the Jews first, as it's more likely they came for the
prisoners, mentally handicapped, & other so-called "inferiors"
first -as historians tell us -so they could get "practiced up";
however, they did come for them -due to the silence of their
neighbors -and due in part to their own silence. So: "Speak
up now or forever hold your peace!"-GWW
Initial Database:
Sources:
[1] In
Re: GORDON WAYNE WATTS (as next friend of THERESA MARIE 'TERRI'
SCHIAVO), No.
SC03-2420 (Fla. Feb.23, 2005), denied 4-3 on rehearing. (Watts got
42.7% of his
panel) https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf
[2] In
Re: JEB BUSH, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, ET AL. v. MICHAEL SCHIAVO,
GUARDIAN: THERESA SCHIAVO, No.
SC04-925 (Fla. Oct.21, 2004), denied 7-0 on rehearing. (Bush got 0.0%
of his panel before the same
court) https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2004/10/04-925reh.pdf
[3] Schiavo
ex rel. Schindler v. Schiavo ex rel. Schiavo, 403 F.3d 1223, 2005
WL 648897 (11th Cir. Mar.23, 2005), denied 2-1 on appeal. (Terri
Schiavo's own blood family only got 33.3% of their panel on the
Federal Appeals
level) https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200511556.pdf
[4]
Key Phrase search: (Google
search for Watts' campaign)and (Yahoo!
search for Watts' campaign) -
Archived copies of Official Campaign
pages: https://GordonWatts.com/Campaign.html and https://GordonWayneWatts.com/Campaign.html
Alert: Recent attempts to click the Fla. Supreme Court link find a bad URL:
AND:
Let's look for (and/or make, if necessary) archives of said links:
[1] In Re: GORDON WAYNE WATTS (as next friend of THERESA MARIE 'TERRI' SCHIAVO), No. SC03-2420 (Fla. Feb.23, 2005), denied 4-3 on rehearing. (Watts got 42.7% of his panel) https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf (BAD LINK)
*** Fla. Sup. Ct. archives: https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/362481/file/03-2420reh.pdf
WAYBACK ARCHIVES:
AND:
AND:
AND:
AND:
AND:
AND:
ARCHIVE TODAY CACHES:
https://archive.ph/ZKZUY AND: https://archive.vn/Kw40R
OTHER ARCHIVES:
** https://gordonwatts.com/03-2420reh.pdf
** https://gordonwaynewatts.com/03-2420reh.pdf
**
[2] In
Re: JEB BUSH, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, ET AL. v. MICHAEL SCHIAVO,
GUARDIAN: THERESA SCHIAVO, No. SC04-925 (Fla. Oct.21, 2004),
denied 7-0 on rehearing. (Bush got 0.0% of his panel before the same
court) https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/dispositions/2004/10/04-925reh.pdf
(BAD LINK)
*** Fla. Sup. Ct. archives: https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/359627/file/04-925reh.pdf
WAYBACK ARCHIVES:
AND:
AND:
AND:
AND:
https://web.archive.org/web/20251123013042/https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/359627/file/03-2420reh.pdf (Odd that the URL refers to my case, but file is that for Jeb Bush's case.)
ARCHIVE TODAY CACHES:
https://archive.vn/p8ggF AND: https://archive.ph/jMuhe AND: https://archive.vn/yCWy6
[3] Schiavo
ex rel. Schindler v. Schiavo ex rel. Schiavo, 403 F.3d 1223, 2005
WL 648897 (11th Cir. Mar.23, 2005), denied 2-1 on appeal. (Terri
Schiavo's own blood family only got 33.3% of their panel on the
Federal Appeals
level) https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/200511556.pdf
WAYBACK MACHINE ARCHIVES:
AND:
AND:
SEE ALSO:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240227103015/https://bioethics.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/research-and-clinical-ethics/terri-schiavo-project/timeline/part-2/10-4-04-amended-motion-for-rehearing-and-clarification.pdf (Which lists me on the service list, verifying my involvement in the Terri Schiavo case)
AND:
SEE ALSO Wikpedia:
See also: Government involvement in the Terri Schiavo case
Protesters in front of Schiavo's Pinellas Park, Florida hospice, March 27, 2005.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, many Republicans, several Democrats in the Florida Legislature and U.S. Congress, and Vatican officials sided with Schiavo's parents. Other groups and individuals, including the American Civil Liberties Union as well as many Democratic and several Republican legislators, expressed support for the position of Michael Schiavo. One individual activist even filed a pro se appeal with the Florida State Supreme Court.[6]”
Wikipedia Caches:
AND:
WAYBACK ARCHIVES:
AND:
ARCHIVE TODAT CACHES: https://archive.ph/LOay5 AND: https://archive.ph/VBh1h
CONTEMPRARY PRESS RELEASES:
AND:
AND:
ARCHIVE TODAY CACHES:
https://archive.ph/vI3pj AND: https://archive.vn/tfpYJ AND: https://archive.ph/Mro3v
WAYBACK MACHINEARCHIVES:
AND:
AND:
[4]
Key Phrase search: (Google search for Watts' campaign)
and (Yahoo! search for Watts' campaign) - Archived copies
of Official
Campaign pages: https://GordonWatts.com/Campaign.html and https://GordonWayneWatts.com/Campaign.html
