Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight a prime example of how needless government regulation is wasting both taxpayers' time and money. In my district in Florida, on the beautiful Gulf Coast, we are susceptible to hurricanes with damaging winds and flooding. Sometimes roads get washed out. Back in November of 2014, Panama City Beach applied for a Federal grant from FEMA to improve drainage and alleviate flooding of Front Beach Road. The project involves the installation of just two culverts under the road for storm runoff. This is not building the pyramids. Three years later, local officials have submitted more than 900 pages of paperwork and spent countless hours working on this application. All this is for a project that will take just 1 week to construct and involves a grant of only $170,000. Mr. Speaker, this is exactly the kind of crushing red tape that our constituents face on a regular basis, and this is what we are working to fix. ____________________”