Liz Saville Roberts: “I credit them in regards to their leadership, more especially Mr. Condit, who has persevered on this issue, and now we…”

“I credit them in regards to their leadership, more especially Mr. Condit, who has persevered on this issue, and now we are about to achieve something that I think will be real progress. I will tell you why: The cost of Federal regulations today is more than $400 billion annually. That is more than the deficit. The Federal Government now has 122,000 regulatory personnel. The Federal Register has grown from 55,000 pages to 70,000. And in 105 counties in Kansas, every county board meeting that meets, every time during their budget considerations half of their expenditures must go to some form of Federal mandate. Some may be needed, many more are not. And many are silly and counterproductive and destroy the one element, the one issue, that is most important of all, and that is the faith and confidence of the American people in their Government.”