That is in my Committee on Commerce, and I want make very clear that when we hear some Members here talking, talking about business, they are talking about Amoco, and they are talking about G.M. When I talk about business, I am talking about the mom and pops, the 5 employees, the 3 employees or 10 employees. The small business people are the ones that have been killed with the rules and regulations that just continue to grow. I mean I think the stack now is about 14 feet tall with all the rules and regulations, and what we are basically doing is we are saying to Federal Government, ``No longer can you run roughshod over us with people not elected to office, meaning bureaucrats,'' and they are going to have to do a risk analysis, and they are going to have to do a cost-benefit analysis on each rule and regulation before they pass them down to us. But, Mr. Kingston, the really exciting part about that is that people will now have a way to voice their concern with this Government because there will be a process of petition, there will be a process of peer review, where we can say, ``Wait a minute, that rule makes no sense, that rule is not smart, and it ruins my business,'' and if they do not listen to that, then we will have legal standing, and I am excited about that because we are going to get this crowd of bureaucrats inside the Beltway to listen to us unless we do have----
Charles Norwood: “That is in my Committee on Commerce, and I want make very clear that when we hear some Members here talking, talking…”
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