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Mr. Speaker, November is a special time to remember that love makes a family. During National Adoption Awareness Month, people and organizations from across the Nation come together to bring awareness to a cause that has become very…

Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle D of title XXXIV insert the following new part: PART IV--ALTERNATIVE…

Madam Chair, the EPA currently regulates the tailpipe emissions of automobiles sold in the United States. In order to incentivize the use of alternative fuels, the agency provides regulatory credits to automakers that produce alternative…

Madam Chair, I appreciate what the gentlewoman is stating. All we are trying to do is listen to the President, too, when he says he has an all-the-above approach on energy. The gentlewoman states that electric vehicles are a clean way to…

Retrospective review of regulations is important.

My government is opposed to me rather than helpful to me.

OK. If a rule like this, when it was first promulgated, had a deadline to say at some point we have to review this again--I do not mean a deadline to go away, but I mean a deadline that at that spot we need to review it.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 5 minutes a.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until today, Thursday, November 4, 2015, at 9 a.m…

Senior leadership has to make the decision where they are going to invest budget dollars.

Therefore, we must ensure that agencies undertake retrospective reviews of current regulations.

Madam Chair, as the designee of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1032, after line 4, add the…

Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin). The amendment was agreed to.

At some point an agency says this really needs to be reviewed, and I know it is costly on the economy.

So the final decision is made where and how? All of this is gathered, all this input.

I am just trying to figure out, is there a need to have a process? And we are not into building more and more systems, OK?