Political Quotes

“there are a number of other important amendments and provisions in this bill, in addition to providing judicial enforcement of regulatory flex. We take a very simple step of saying, with respect to compliance guides, when you write a regulation, you have to tell the small entities how, in plain English, they are supposed to abide by the regulation, what it is supposed to do, and how they can comply with it. If a regulatory agency brings an enforcement action against a small entity, the small entity has a right to take a look at those so-called plain English guidelines and present it to the court or the administrative hearing officer and say, ``Hey, look, we are doing what they told us to do,'' or if it is so confusing that they cannot figure it out, they have a case to make in the court or in the administrative hearing: ``We had no idea what we were supposed to do to comply with this.'' Another area that we think is very, very important is to change the atmosphere of inspectors and examiners who go out into the field representing the Federal Government to administer regulations. Mr. President, you and I can cite many examples, I am sure. There are an overwhelming number of examples where dedicated public servants go out and work with the people they regulate to help them come into compliance.”