any benefit cut is a serious impact on your life, and another example of how privatization of Social Security would be irresponsible.

If every politician were here who denounced waste, fraud, and abuse, this hearing room would be packed.

the political reward system is such that we are primarily benefited if we have good news speech material that excites voters back home.

Especially when, as Congressman Michaud was talking about, when it is the rural areas, there are huge gaps out there.

Just out of curiosity, why can't your outreach programs be part of every VA director's duties?

Over the past decade, our Nation has seen the effects of two wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think this would be a great way to at least try to do that, and I don't understand why the VA wouldn't want to impart that authority or that responsibility to our VA directors.

The jobs crisis we now face... is a tribute to regulatory failure.

This bill would impede many of the routine functions of government.

H.R. 4078 is premised on the false assertion that regulations undermine job creation.

There is no ascertainable link between regulations and unemployment.

Increased regulation erodes the rule of law, and invites corruption.

I am not opposed to all regulation. I repeat, not opposed to all regulation.

It is basically the lack of demand, the destruction of the middle class, which has been done over and over through laws and policies, advocated by the majority of this House of Representatives.

This bill, the Regulatory Freeze for the Jobs Act is an instrument that creates a mistaken cure for a problem that doesn't exist.

Much current regulation is ineffective and doesn't accomplish the ends that the regulation is intending to achieve.

The real problem, as Mr. Cohen said, is indeed, the lack of demand.

Regulation... makes our country stronger and makes us more prosperous.