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Lexinom wrote: “And Fred Thompson’s accomplishments are...?”

Fred Thompson saved the taxpayers billions of dollars in government waste, fraud and abuse.

FDT worked to enact three major tax-cut bills, reducing the federal tax burden on all of us.

Thompson led the effort to defeat many bad bills and almost singlehandedly defeated Clinton’s S507, which would have destroyed the patent system and handed many American innovations over to the Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese.

Fred spent fewer of the taxpayers’ dollars than of any of his opponents in the presidential race.

As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Thompson worked to cut taxes and reform Social Security and Medicare programs so they will be there for future generations. He was a member of a bi-partisan group of senators endorsing a plan to reform Social Security by cutting payroll taxes and allowing workers to invest in personal savings accounts.

Fred Thompson worked to make the federal government smaller, more efficient and more accountable by achieving a string of significant reforms, becoming what USA Today called, “a leader on a range of clean-up Washington issues.”

Sen. Thompson authored the Government Information Security Act. The legislation, which was signed into law, provided a new framework for protecting the government’s computers from outside attack by hackers, terrorists and enemy agents.

FDT worked to pass the Regulatory Right-to-Know Act. The Act requires the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to disclose to the public the costs and benefits of regulatory programs, as well as an analysis of the impact of federal regulations on state, local, and tribal governments, small business, and economic growth.

Congress approved Fred’s legislation to ensure that potential privacy violations on federal agency Internet sites are disclosed. Thompson released a GAO report revealing that many federal agencies were still using cookies to gather information on American citizens on their web sites without disclosing their use.

Thompson worked with the GAO to conduct and make public the results of the first ever audit of the federal government. He introduced legislation requiring the use of improved auditing tools, which identified improper payments and payment errors made by federal agencies.