Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 4078, the so-called Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act. This mother of all anti-regulation bills is actually a repackaging of a noxious potpourri of previously introduced bills that would make it virtually impossible for the executive branch and its agencies to protect the American public. This bill would block the issuance of regulations regardless of how vital they are to safeguarding the public's health. They want to eliminate regulations that keep our workers safe and which would rein in the excesses of Wall Street. Why? So that they can please their crony capitalist brothers, the Koch brothers, and also their crony capitalist friends in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They want to keep them happy. Instead of creating jobs, the Tea Party Republicans are assaulting the very regulations that ensure that we have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink; regulations that protect our children from unsafe products like toys, like clothing and bedding, baby food, regulations that protect seniors from adulterated medicines and unsafe substances that they use. They essentially want to create so many barriers and obstacles to the promulgation of regulations that it's virtually impossible to do so. They want to keep these Federal agencies from doing their job, which is to protect the health, safety, and well-being of this country. This isn't red tape reduction, folks.…”