Political Quotes

“whenever EPA wants to revise their regulations to meet problems that were not otherwise foreseen which are consistent with existing law, those regulations would have to undergo the analysis as to whether they constitute an unfunded mandate. Now, I have no problem with the analysis. What I find difficult is the fact that those regulations can be held up ad infinitum because of the judicial review that anybody who disagrees with the regulation could use to say that they did not want it go into effect, the analysis was not good enough. That seems to me to allow a situation that we would not tolerate if it were a prospective piece of legislation, because we would reserve to ourself a point of order which can be voted on by a point of order overturned, but could not be overturned except through lengthy court legislation. I think that makes no sense.”