You're too lazy to do your own research? Or do you enjoy spreading the DNC propaganda?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701411/posts
This does not reduce the size and scope of the federal government. It may make it easier to know how the size and scope of the federal government is growing, but it reduces nothing.
The Republicans only slow the growth but they do not reduce it, and you can't point to any evidence that they do.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108066,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9307-2005Feb8.html
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=479&sortorder=articledate
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/05/01/david-frum/republicans-and-the-flight-of-opportunity/
The Republicans have squandered opportunity after opportunity in their domestic agenda. As a party, they are not interested in shrinking federal authority.