Political Quotes

“This is one of the most important bills that we will pass in Congress. I'm just amazed at what I hear from the other side--we're over here endangering safety; we're poisoning water; we're doing everything we can in the workplace. That's not what this is about. All this bill says is, when you put in a regulation, at least have some type of basis so the people impacted by it know where to go from there. Have some good, sound science. Let's have an economic impact study. Let me just give you five instances specifically. Talk to the doctors today about all of the regulations impacting them, and you'll hear complaints about spending more time on paperwork than with their patients. Talk to the banks. I was talking to a small banker, only 19 employees. Two little banks in my district, they have to hire a full- time compliance officer just because of Dodd-Frank, and that bank didn't do one thing wrong to bring about this economic collapse. And now the farmers. EPA is going to regulate cow manure under CERCLA, as opposed to the present rules. Several years ago, this House passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. One of those was something called the employee commute option that said that counties around Chicago had to have something called an employee commute option that was forced carpooling. Well, one of those counties was McHenry County, which is still a rural county.…”