Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, when I first got to Congress, I was sitting in the Senator from Utah Mike Lee's office, and I said, hey, I don't understand this. You have got a stack on your desk here of about 4 inches, and yet you have a 13-foot tall stack of documents right next to it. What does that symbolize? He said, the 4 inches are the total number of laws passed by Congress in the last year. The 13 feet is the total number of rules and regulations promulgated by administrative agencies. That is what we are facing. When my colleague says, hey, we can look at 25--do you know what the high recently has been? It has been 17 in a year, 17 individual ones. Guess what? My bill doesn't say you can't look at these. In fact, it does the opposite. It encourages us to look at the rules. If they are good, they will stand. If they are not good, they will fail. That is what Congress is supposed to do. Another colleague would say, we are trying to expand Congress' power. No. The Founders were clear. In the Constitutional Convention it isn't three separate coequal branches. It is three separate but unequal branches. The legislative branch is supposed to be the most powerful. That is why it got funding. That is why the House is supposed to do the funding because we are the people's House. We are ostensibly closest to the people in the Federal Government. They don't want you to look at the rules promulgated by unelected bureaucrats.…”