Political Quotes

“My amendment simply comes in and establishes a threshold by which Congress must be involved in actually approving costs that are imposed upon our constituents. Mr. Chairman, we all represent somewhere in excess of 700,000 people, and whenever we have unelected bureaucrats carrying out regulations that may impose costs on our constituents, we should have a say in that. Mr. Chairman, my amendment simply says that any regulation that has a cost in excess of $100 million must be approved by the Congress. That is what representation looks like. Mr. Chairman, we shouldn't be allowing unelected bureaucrats who are sitting in dark cubicles in Washington, D.C., and who don't have a clear understanding of what it is like across America, making these decisions. This is our job. If we support these regulations, if they provide a positive cost-to-benefit, put us on record supporting it. To put things in perspective, Mr. Chair, in the first 2 years of the Biden administration, these very bureaucrats wrote regulations costing Americans $200 billion. These are hidden taxes, Mr. Chair, that the families we are representing have to pay. In comparison, during the Trump administration, they actually withdrew regulations costing the American household $11,000 per household. They withdrew or reduced the costs, yet under this administration, we are watching as thousands and thousands of additional dollars are being heaped upon these same households. Let me say it again.…”