Political Quotes

“I agree. The horrow stories we hear, the horror stories that we have heard, regardless of the issue, fill in the issue, there is a horror story that we hear put out night after night on the floor of this House. The regulatory, just going back 2 weeks, with respect to the regulatory reforms that we have enacted, the regulatory moratorium bill, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, paperwork reduction, private property rights, we heard the same horror stories then as we hear now. Forget the issue, if it is part of the Contract With America, it is horrific, it is bad, it is anti-working people it is antipoor. And there again, we see the analogy, the class warfare time and time again. The gentleman will recall that with respect to this whole issue of regulatory power, micromanagement from the Federal Government, I talked 2 weeks ago about the Department of Labor and the fact that the Department of Labor has made enforcement of child labor laws a top priority over the past several years. In particular, grocers, grocery store owners all over the country are being cited for violations of hazardous occupation order No. 12 which we discussed 2 weeks ago, and that order prohibits employees under the age of 18 from operating or assisting to operate balers, machines used to compact used cardboard. Inspectors routinely go to such lengths as issuing citations based on responses to questionnaires mailed to former employees. That is how bad it has gotten in this country today.…”