Western Riverside County and Orange County have experienced dramatic change and great challenges. Bill Hedrick believes we must confront those challenges directly with equally great ambitions, starting today. Our current congressional leadership locally has failed to balance America's checkbook, as such it is Time for Change!!!

Upholding the Constitution Members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. So do members of the Executive and Judiciary Branches. Unlike the Bush Administration, however, I will do all in my power to uphold and defend the Constitution, particularly regarding the protections and inalienable rights of all humanity it guarantees to the American people. Read More

On Education As a society, we are confronted with two paths: either we invest more in education for our children and build their academic, social and life skills, or we invest in more prisons to warehouse those children excluded from the American Dream, because they have no employable skills or other means of access. Read More

On Health Care I believe access to quality, affordable healthcare is a moral and fiscal imperative."Skyrocketing premiums" have become unaffordable for working families and impose a huge and burgeoning burden on employers. I support the concept of a non-profit, universal health care system that is available for all Americans. Read More

Trade & Commerce Trade policies must be adopted that safeguard the interests of working Americans. Current trade agreements, with completely ineffective environmental and labor requirements for foreign-based manufacturers, have placed American workers at a tremendous competitive disadvantage. The out-sourcing of America needs to stop, and fair markets established for the exchange of goods and services. Conservatives complain about "class war," yet seem to have no problem with the current war on the American middle class that their trade policies have incited. Read More

On Iraq The war in Iraq is damaging to long-term American interests and has proved to be politically, militarily, financially, and morally ruinous for our country. It will not improve until the Iraqis assume responsibility for their own future, and that will not happen as long as we are their crutch. Our troops need to be quickly withdrawn from this quagmire. Instead, we need to put our resources back into fighting Al-Qaeda and other terrorists who directly threaten our country. Read More

On Immigration I support an immigration plan that will restore our national security and strengthen our economy, and that is enforceable. Read More