Steve Scalise

They have dramatic impacts on job creators and they cost us jobs.

The biggest impediment to job creation in America are federal regulations.

I want to put some real structure in place for the FCC, not just for clarity in the industry, but also to move it away from what many of us view as an agency that is starting to implement their own political agenda as opposed to an agency…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Hopefully by 2014, the law is repealed, and then people really can keep what they like that they currently have.

According to this study, over 30 percent of those companies said they are not going to be able to keep providing it. So the employees lose the care they like. That breaks the President's pledge.

But the President said--I mean he pledged it time and time again before, during, and after this debate that if you like what you have, you can keep it.

It just seems like there was a favoritism that was shown because, like I said, ironically a lot of the companies and entities that have received the waivers were many of the same that were working with the administration to pass the law

I would love everybody to be able to get a waiver from the entire law, meaning repeal of the law.

How long have waivers been granted? And can you further expand on who has not been granted waivers and why?

If I could, I would like to ask a little bit about the waivers that have been issued for Obamacare.

Should the Executive order be updated, amended, revised to take into account those types of rules?

We have lost over 13,000 jobs. We have lost about a dozen of those Deepwater rigs to foreign countries.

The biggest impediment to job creation is a lot of these regulations that have nothing to do with protecting people.

I appreciate the gentleman yielding because, as I said earlier, the language and, as you know, you are correct in reading the language of the executive order, the problem we have had is that the White House political appointees are…

The reason I used the term ``mandate'' is because the practical implementation of this, when you look at how the Department has implemented----

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Yes. They would still have to go to the center and have to apply. In fact, in the language of the amendment, it refers to an approved transportation worker identification credential. So they would have to actually go and be approved…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available under this…

Maybe the gentleman on the other side might want to, and I'm sure during your time you'll have the opportunity to address that, but, frankly, what we've got to do is start installing fiscal discipline back in this House, and we're going to…

In fact, if you look at their plan, their plan not only will double the national debt in 5 years, which I guess they are okay with, but it also allows Medicare to go bankrupt. We are not going to sit by and let Medicare go bankrupt. We are…

Their population has tripled because the caribou like the warmth of the pipeline.

I harken back to all of those groups that came out against the Alaskan pipeline and extolled all of the dangers.

I remember 2 years ago I went out to Alaska. We looked at--we went out to the North Slope.

I want to try to bring the questions I have back to what the focus I think most people in the country are concerned about, and that is lowering the price of gasoline and creating jobs.