Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I am here to offer an amendment to H.R. 5226, the Regulatory Integrity Act of 2016. This amendment is based on legislation I proposed earlier in the year. By creating a new process that requires the administration to keep a clear, organized, and easy-to-understand list of all proposed and outstanding rules and regulations, we are forcing transparency on bureaucrats who are currently running amok. I also want to thank my colleague, Mr. Loudermilk, for working with me to offer this very sensible amendment. Our simple amendment requires the administration to make the data collected and the formula used for all Regulatory Impact Analysis, or RIA, publicly available. This is about simple transparency. In other words, for an example, let's say BSEE, under the Department of the Interior, says that the well control rule--a proposal that will drastically affect the Louisiana energy offshore sector--will only cost the offshore oil and gas industry $800 million to implement, and industry projections put that number over $9 billion, well, BSEE should be required to prove how they reached those figures. They should be required to make completely transparent their assumptions and their methodology. That is what the American people ask for. {time} 1615 The Obama administration is responsible for an unparalleled expansion of the regulatory state, with the imposition of 229 major regulations since 2009, a lot of costs incurred.…”