On the recordOctober 5, 2011
As we go around our districts, as I go around my district in Oklahoma, many people come up to me and say, John, what are you politicians in Washington going to do to help this economy? What are you going to do to create jobs here in America? Well, you know, we politicians don't create jobs, but what we do do is we get in the way. And one of the things we can do to keep jobs in place and even foster new jobs is getting the heck out of the way with these burdensome over- regulations that are out there. The EPA has gone rogue, wanting to shut down 20 percent of our cement plants. And President Obama, when he came to the joint session here recently, said he wanted to build roads and bridges and infrastructure. Well, I guess he wants to do that with imported Chinese cement, not American-made cement. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. As House Republicans move forward with a bold agenda to grow our economy and put Americans back to work, one area that must be addressed is the issue of over-regulation by the Federal Government. With our economy suffering, and given that 14 million Americans are out of work, Congress must implement Federal policies that grow jobs, increase domestic manufacturing, and restore the global economic competitiveness of the United States. Businesses make decisions on where to invest based upon a number of factors, but regulatory certainty ranks among the top factors, which is why H.R.…
