Free enterprise built America — here’s why we must sustain it.

At first glance, you may wonder what the four of us have in common, and why we would come together to form, let alone lead, the same caucus.

One of us leads the Republican Study Committee, another the Blue Dog Coalition, another the Republican Governance Group, and another the New Democrat Coalition. We come from different states and different ideological backgrounds, but together, the four of us together represent the vast majority of the House of Representatives.

We disagree on a wide variety of policies. Yet despite those differences, we share a common belief that the American free enterprise system is the cornerstone of the United States’ rise to the world’s preeminent economic and military force. Equally as important, we believe free enterprise is a foundational American value, regardless of political ideology.

Fundamentally, free enterprise is freedom and opportunity. It is the principle that anyone from anywhere can build a better life through hard work and innovation. It is the belief that success should be determined by the value you create and the opportunities you seize, not by who you are, who you know, or where you come from. Simply put, free enterprise is the economic embodiment of the American Dream.

It’s this shared belief that unites us as we come together to launch the Congressional Free Enterprise Caucus.

For generations, support for free enterprise served as a common ground across the broad spectrum of American politics. Republicans and Democrats have always debated, and often disagreed on the appropriate levels of taxation, scope of regulation, and government spending, but there was always a broad consensus that a market-based economy driven by........

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