Cory Gardner

We have never once relied on the government to provide our GPS signal. That comes from satellites; that comes from a tower that we ourselves put up.

Something has gone dramatically wrong.

96 million out of the $100 million has already been tied up in this grant.

The more we hear about EAGLE-Net, the more questions we have.

We have a $100 million grant that went to the State of Colorado that is putting at risk private sector jobs.

This government is trying to scrape money together.

You mentioned optimism for the country, and I carry the same optimism, too, because the people that we work for believe that this continues to be the greatest Nation on the face of this Earth. If we have Congress, if we have Washington…

And 5.3 trillion, now, I think there's a statistic out there that shows that that's more money than the amounts of money spent by or the deficits between George Washington and Bill Clinton combined--or maybe it's George H.W. Bush. The fact…

So you have got a government policy that actually is an impediment to job creation here. A company trying to bring jobs back in, but because of the cost of doing business here is so much higher than elsewhere, they had that unfair choice…

And you mentioned it, too. It's not just about cash in the bank. It's not just about how much money you have. It's about the assets that you have. And so your example where you may be cash poor but still hit this line, I think, is…

And I know you serve on the Agriculture Committee here in the House of Representatives, and I'm sure that you're hearing from some of your interests in agriculture about uncertainty.

The gentleman from Indiana brings up a great point. And as I mentioned earlier tonight, there was an article in Politico that was printed last week. The President's jobs council hasn't even met for 6 months. I don't know if they have given…

And I think the gentleman from Arizona brings up a good point because the President likes to blame Congress for not increasing taxes or for spending enough money. But we know that this President is in charge of his executive branch…

Somehow they have cost and benefits, yet they consider their economic analysis complete, even though it doesn't take into account jobs.

It's one of the greatest frustrations I have. You're talking about major regulations and their impact on job creation and impact on jobs, and yet this bureaucrat admitted that they don't take into account in the economic analysis they…

We continue to hear testimony before our committees that talk about how for every $1 million you spend on regulations, it creates 1.5 jobs, as if regulations and adding burdens to business is actually job creation in and of itself.

2011. So that's 82,000 pages of regulations written in 2011. During the first 3 years in office, the Obama administration unleashed 106 new major regulations that increased the regulatory burdens in this country by more than $46 billion…

I thank the gentlelady. In going back to some of the comments that have been made tonight, the gentleman from Indiana talked about the 34,000 new rule makers--the people who have been hired to do nothing but write rules. I live in a town…

Again, thank you for sharing that story with us about a manufacturer of a restaurant--a food business, I guess, operator--that is ready to create jobs if it could just get government out of the way and let it do what it does best, which is…

And $1.75 trillion is the yearly cost of regulations. If you were to hire 35 million people at $50,000 a year, that would equal $1.75 trillion. $1.75 trillion could hire 35 million people at $50,000 a year.

I thank the gentleman from Arizona. You mentioned at the beginning of your comments tonight the President's statement that, if you have a business, you can thank government for that. Have you ever had a small business owner or somebody who…

And that's just money that businesses are using to comply with more and more regulations that are in place every year by the Federal Government.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado. And again, I will highlight some of the statistics that he pointed out. And the gentleman from Colorado can correct me. You said $1.75 trillion cost of regulations. That's per year?

These are individuals whose sole job it is is to write new regulations; 34,000 new people to write new regulations.

I want to just ask a quick question about something that you said there. I believe you said, since 2008, 34,000 regulators have been hired by the Federal Government?