Political Quotes

“My amendment is needed to lower the economic threshold of the REINS Act to $50 million, requiring congressional approval to go into effect. That will lead to more votes in this body, and that is what we do. We are Members of Congress. That is what we do as Representatives of Congress, and I would rather vote more often than have unelected, unaccountable, partisan agency heads writing rules that we treat as law. The Biden administration has abused executive authority by growing the administrative state. These abuses add up, and estimates indicate that the Biden administration has proposed more than $1 trillion in rulemaking proposals in 2022 alone. That is a trillion dollars without a single vote of anybody in this body. My amendment will fix that. Actions this large, like student loan forgiveness, food stamp increases that nearly double in cost to Americans every 4 years--which even outpaces inflation--for every one of these overreaches, there are more smaller proposals that we never notice. I don't know if you realize that ketchup is regulated--breads, buns, cheese, Asiago cheese versus old Asiago cheese, that is what gets regulated by our government. There is virtually nothing that is untouched in regulation by this government. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”