Rep. Richard DeBolt (R) wants to get Washington's economy moving again. On October 24, 2011, he released a common sense four-point plan that will get Washington moving in the right direction.

The first three points of his plan are aimed at reducing regulatory burden, and increasing permit predictability. He proposes to suspend some growth management requirements, suspend agency rulemaking, and shorten permitting decisions. The fourth point of his plan is to recognize hydropower as what it is-an inherently renewable and strikingly clean way to generate energy. Here is Debolt's four points from his press release:

1. Suspend state growth management requirements in counties with significant and persistent unemployment;
2. Require permit decisions within 90 days or it is automatically granted;
3. Place a moratorium on rulemaking; and
4. Recapture our competitive advantage by reclassifying hydropower as renewable energy.

Reducing regulatory burden and fostering competition has worked for Texas. Between 2009-2011, Texas enjoyed half of the nation's job growth, saw fewer downside effects of the recession, and has now claimed to have recovered from it faster.

Florida is following suit and has some of the same regulatory-lifting ideas. This year, Florida repealed their "smart growth" laws. By doing so, Governor Rick Scott hopes to increase a competitive land supply, reduce the cost of housing and improve economic prosperity for Florida.

Getting government out of the way of economic prosperity is a simple solution and DeBolt has set his sights squarely on that goal-at least as an interim measure.

DeBolt has one twist to his proposal-that is get the hard work done in the upcoming special session-and skip the regular session. That's a move he says will save taxpayers more than $2 million.

It's refreshing to see a plan that, as BeBolt says, "... will unleash the power of the private sector and get people working again, and creating a sustainable budget that prioritizes state spending."

The only thing standing between DeBolt's plan and getting Washington moving again is a Democratic majority that is rumored to release a new tax increase.