How can you justify asking me to pay somebody else's mortgage? I struggle to pay my mortgage.

I cannot support the bill.

Well, of course, I think that would almost argue for a streamlined process because many times we do have an environmental impact and then there are court appeals and things are tied up for 10 years or 8 years and then we are told we have…

Actually, the agency, it was only a tremendous outcry by people that said you didn't consider this.

They are. You are absolutely right. And I can tell you well aware.

But the cost was so prohibitive that even the EPA said it would shut a third of our production down.

Well, the moral is, is that we are going to shut down American jobs, American companies. It will be produced in Mexico and China. And it will increase mercury in our air in the United States.

I think Members on both sides of the aisle were shocked at Marathon Steel.

Most economic experts will agree that small businesses and small business trade drive and shape our economy and our ability to provide employment for American workers.

Tammy Duckworth has proposed legislation to be able to waive that.

The Honorable Spencer Bachus, a Representative in Congress from the State of Alabama, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.

Small businesses are the source for almost half of our workforce, and while I am concerned about many economic factors, it is also my view that government regulations have a disproportionate impact on small businesses.