As Members of Congress, we should be able to see what you are doing and how you are doing it.

I would like to make my counterpart aware that I have one additional speaker and then I am prepared to close. At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren).

I appreciate the gentleman's passion for this issue. All we are asking for, in a bipartisan way--and I sound like a broken record up here--is to review these regulations, go back over an indefinite amount of time to look way back, back…

You are hiding stuff. You are holding back from us and it is not reasonable.

The Washington Times cited the Federal Register. In 1 year alone, there were 81,611 pages of new regulations. I think it is time that we go back and look at those. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves) for his…

This amendment indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and the function of the bill. The SCRUB Act merely clears the underbrush of outdated and unnecessary regulations. There is no reason to exclude any specific agency from…

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes.

A briefing is not good enough.

There is nothing in the SCRUB Act that is going to slow it down. It is not an excuse for the administration to do what they have been trying to do for the last 7 years and have absolutely, totally failed to do. How many times are we going…

Why is it that Members of Congress with security clearances--I happen to sit on the Judiciary Committee, I am on the Crimes Subcommittee--why is it that I cannot actually see what you are sending out far and wide?

I have the greatest respect for our Members here. But to suggest that what we are doing is throwing a sledgehammer and that it is pandering, come on. This is a serious effort to suggest, in a bipartisan way, to go back and review things…

I would just remind our colleagues that the cutting doesn't apply until the commission reports back. So until they have had a chance to go in and look and review, then there is an opportunity to cut out this underbrush. And I think I have…

The congressional oversight and investigative work does not need to be an adversarial activity.

So we are after the truth here most of the time, but I do want to highlight that aspect of this, that we have to be fairer in conducting oversight as well.

It has been a year. And we issued a subpoena. It is not like we are not serious about that.

It should scare every American.

I must tell you how disappointed I am that we are not starting the new year here with fresh, new, bipartisan initiatives to create jobs and to move our economy forward. I just feel like this is for auld lang syne. This is our 62nd vote to…

The SCRUB Act is not going to take away the entire FDA. Our food, and the people that work at the FDA, the food safety is an important part of the function that they hold. But I would appreciate anybody to have us understand--we actually…