On the recordJuly 25, 2012
Let me tell anyone who may not have ever seen a war with an agency over agency rules before, they dig in and they fight to the death anyway, whether it's coming out of their budget or not. I've seen them lose at three levels with a private citizen and go after them yet a fourth time because their pockets are bottomless and they hope they can break the back of a citizen like that. You know, what make this country unique is we believe we get our rights from God. We believe in inalienable human rights here, and we give rights to government. Government doesn't give us rights. We give rights to our government. And we're charged with administering the rights that were given to our government here in Congress. And we give the administration, we give the agencies the right to write rules, specific rules. We don't allow them, without our authority and beyond the scope of their authority, to abuse citizens, to steal their productivity, their labor, and the benefits that they've worked hard for. And that's what the agencies have done. We have asked them not to do it. They've reformed the Administrative Procedures Act a number of times. The agencies just don't get the message. They see it as their goal and their destiny to be the boss. Congress is supposed to have dominion over the bureaucrats, and this is one of the ways that we're going to enforce that dominion. We don't let the fox run the henhouse. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR.…
