Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, first, I would say that yes, we can blame a lot of debt and deficit on a burden of regulations. We can blame it because there is a huge cost to our executive branch of government. That cost, much of it, the unnecessary component, all that goes against our debt and deficit. We saw, as Barack Obama came in as President, we had a $10 trillion debt, which he was very critical of throughout his campaign in 2007 and 2008. Now, as he leaves office here, thankfully, in a couple of weeks, it is a $20 trillion debt, and we can start to ratchet this thing back down. Looking at the Obama administration and their reports on the costs of regulation, they come up with this number reported to the Heritage Foundation that the annual cost of regulations to the United States, according to the Obama administration, is $108 billion, Mr. Chairman. So that is what we are looking at here for costs. But I want to get at the real meat of this. Article I of the Constitution says Congress shall make all law. Yet, we have the courts making laws across the street, and we have regulations coming at us at a rate of--and I expressed to the gentleman from Georgia--ten-to-one. For every law we passed in the 114th Congress, there were at least 10 regulations that were poured over our head, and we are sitting in a place where we don't have the tools to undo them. Now we have a President that is ready, and he wants to undo these regulations.…”