Political Quotes

“I want to tell you about our regulatory empires as they really are. I have an irrigation district in my district in southern California which waters about 500,000 acres of the Imperial Valley. The EPA discovered it a couple of years ago and they told our irrigation district that although less than one-half of 1 percent of their water goes to domestic users, and those are little ranch houses out in the boondocks, that they were going to have to build between $5,000 and $10,000 systems, filtration systems, for each and every one of those houses or spend up to $100 million building filtration plants in the surrounding communities. We ultimately had to go to court and the court of appeals in California found that the EPA does not even have jurisdiction in this case. Our regulatory kingdoms, following human nature, have tried to acquire power, and I would say that the regulations we see today are more about power than they are about safety. Let's pass H.R. 5.”