Political Quotes

“Madam President, today we are going to be voting on the first of what will be many resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to roll back the avalanche of Federal regulations that the Obama administration placed on the U.S. economy and, most importantly, the working men and women of this great country. Nowhere have these regulations been more of a burden than on the energy industry of America, which employs millions, millions of Americans--Democrats, Republicans, good, hard-working Americans, and thousands of hard-working Alaskans, my constituents. So I am particularly pleased that the first of these actions--and we are going to be using the Congressional Review Act a lot because the economy and families in America need relief--in the Senate is to nullify the so- called stream buffer rule of the Department of Interior. My colleague and friend, the senior Senator from Alaska, Ms. Murkowski, was down on the floor a little bit about ago. She described just how sweeping this rule was in scope and how despite the Federal law called SMACRA, which requires cooperative Federalism, working closely with the States, the Obama administration did not give the States any input--certainly not my State.…”