"If we are really going to get control over this government, if we are going to actually move our economy forward and start creating jobs, we have to stop feeding the beast."
"I am just amazed at the rules and regulations they are talking about and begging me to help them, 'Please stop this. It is going to put us out of business.' This is a very serious problem."
"this legislation would fix this problem. It would make us more meaningful. It would bring back congressional authority."
"big regulations--maybe we cannot oversee every regulation, but big regulations, regulations that cost the economy over $100 million, major rules, should not be written by unelected bureaucrats."
"We want to restrain the regulatory branch."
"To pick up on Senator Paul's comment that this is a bipartisan problem, I realize this is not a perfect surrogate for the size of the Federal bureaucracy, but at the end of President Franklin Roosevel..."
"Can you address the EPA regulation on coal-fired generation plans? Because that is going to be huge."
"We are spending over $1.5 trillion this year that we do not have, and certainly in business, if you want to control a department, you stop feeding the best."
"We have gone way overboard in allowing the President and the Executive Branch to have way too much power."
"We want you to be restrained. We want Congress to have a say in this."
"One thing that amazes me is, as I traveled around Wisconsin, not only was this out-of-control spending a primary issue because people understood the fact that we are bankrupting this country, that thr..."
"How expensive?"
"Did the EPA just admit that their estimates for mercury were 1,000 times overstated? And is that the basis of your net analysis?"
"I do not have a great deal of faith in government's ability to estimate costs."
"I think the fundamental issue here is the fact that there is a trade-off between safety and economic activity."
"I am extraordinarily concerned about inadequate funding request for ongoing congressionally authorized rural water projects."
"I would really like to thank you for the sacrifice you and your family and your husband have made to this Nation."
"When you have 20 different agencies involved, again, you are spanning--can you just name the top five or six agencies that really have accomplished objectives here or actually have some sort of focuse..."