John Doolittle: “You make a very, very good point, and I have occasionally seen a talented government official who is a problem solver.…”

“You make a very, very good point, and I have occasionally seen a talented government official who is a problem solver. And so they get out of the adversarial mode where they are doing inspections and levying fines, and they are actually trying to create solutions for the businesses and the interests over whom they preside in order to make things work. We don't see that nearly often enough. And I think that is exactly the type of direction we need to move in. All the business people I know and all the working people are trying to accomplish a good thing, and it is extremely unfortunate when the government gets so heavy-handed, and instead of solving the problem they create many more problems. We have had a lot of this in the environmental regulation area in the Sacramento region with, really, an unhelpful approach by certain Federal agencies. I think that maybe the winds may be shifting a little bit after considerable prodding from the congressional delegation, and we may see a more friendly attitude in, say, the regulatory area of some of these agencies. And I certainly hope so, because I really like the example that you gave where you saw the good results that came from a different approach, where it is a helpful, solution-oriented approach as to this heavy-handed, traditional bureaucratic government, adversarial approach.”