Political Quotes

“If you look at what is happening in our economy right now, why the economy is struggling so badly through this Obama economy, it is because of radical regulations coming out of Washington. Every time I go home and meet with small businesses in my district in southeast Louisiana, the common thread is that it is not the local business down the street that is the main threat to their business. The main threat to small businesses throughout my district--and I hear it from my colleagues as well across the country--are the thousands and thousands of pages of these radical regulations that come out of these Federal agencies, unelected bureaucrats that are imposing, in essence, new law that is making it harder to create jobs in this country. Hard-working taxpayers deserve a Federal Government that is more efficient, more effective, and more accountable; and that is what the REINS Act does, Mr. Chairman. The REINS Act forces real accountability in regulations that are coming out of Washington. Whether it is the IRS or the EPA or the NLRB or HHS or CMS, the alphabet soup of Federal agencies that is crippling our economy with all of these regulations is what is holding our economy back.…”