We get calls all the time from businesses and from individuals that say, we have this overwhelming number of guidance documents and new regs that are coming down on us; we have limited resources as well.

But that is just significant guidance you are highlighting. Is that correct?

And they are all going to be bound by that.

Well, it is simple. We have to be able to re-establish that and to be able to find a clear way to be able to do it, because at this point we are--my belief, we are clearly out of balance.

part of our issue is not just that it is in a shoebox; it is that it is in a shoebox in a closet that no one knows where it is.

Nor should they have to be able to have the staff to manage that, based on the number of regs that are coming on them.

We are still a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

But here is the challenge when you are dealing with a--I will go back to a manufacturing location as well. They have EPA regulations, they have OSHA regulations, they may have FDA regulations, they have USDA regulations, Department of…

So can I drop the bomb into the middle of this conversation, then?

My answer to things like that is, well, when that occurs and it is that severe, that becomes a question where Congress ought to step in and make things happen.

So but you called it, if I remember, a 'partial list.'

But it is every President for the last 20-some-odd years has done 12866.

OK, so how does that happen?

I want to just put a check on that to say it is not really a safe harbor, because even they say they are not bound by No Action Letters.

And it is the challenge that I have that I bring the illustration up: If you have a new employee at a university, you have a new employee at a manufacturing location, the previous employer retired, died, fired, whatever it may be; new…

First, Mr. President, I have been told I will have our time that I may use, and I appreciate that very much. This morning we heard from the ranking member--from both sides. I am going to bring up something here that everyone agrees on, and…

All right. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be recognized as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator does not have the right for a unanimous consent, as the Senator does not have the floor. The Senator from New…

Let me ask the Chair. Is it possible for me to go ahead and receive from him a specific period of time at the end of which he retains the floor? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). That would require unanimous consent.