Deborah Koff Ross

This commission that we have here in the SCRUB Act is established to clear out old and unnecessary regulations. It currently requires the commission to consider whether the rule could be repealed without significant adverse effects…

Although I am not in opposition to the amendment, I do wish to speak in support and further explain my support, because I believe that the gentleman from Virginia offers some very good merit to his amendment. The amendment clarifies that…

You know, some time ago, when I first got involved in this political processing, I made it known that I felt that the silent killer of American business was the regulatory regime that we have in place, where over 50 years this Congress has…

I thank the chairman for allowing me this opportunity. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. McMorris Rodgers). Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman…

Everyone agrees that airport noise is very annoying. Effective regulations that protect our communities from unwarranted noise are very important. However, regulations that impose excessive and costly restrictions that are ineffective at…

I will tell you that regulations are regulations. They need to be reviewed at every level. What the SCRUB Act offers is that opportunity. What this amendment does is limit that ability. For those reasons, I, again, urge my colleagues to…

In the 112th Congress 6 years ago, I filed what was then called the RAPID Act.

In my experience as a litigator, it has been that at times my clients would settle for the cost of defense, regardless of principle.

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

So if I'm an investor, and I want to be able to invest what capital I have to get a return, where am I going to put it?

would it not be advantageous just for the simple sake of the cost of the investment necessary for our infrastructure, to have a timeline, a deadline, on the permitting process?

I come from a place of a skepticism over this agreement that was signed or put into effect on Friday the 13th.

This isn't a trade agreement. If it was a trade agreement, we would have an up-or-down vote.

The President and his new Treasury Secretary should be afforded the chance to decide for themselves whether to renegotiate or to sign this deal.

I think a 90-day layover is an insult to this institution and does nothing more than pay lip service to the notion of congressional consultation and input.

I want to put in a word, as I have done in the past, with you concerning the mom-and-pops.

And the transparency for that accounting is important to me because I don't want us to step into something 10 years from now or five years from now when we realize that market conditions have changed and we are subsidizing a competitive…

So frankly, the cost-coverage problems are predominantly on the market-dominant side.

So is it a concern of yours, though, that that--if we as Congress raise rates by one cent, that increased revenue, is that going to go to what?

My concern is is that in 2002 I believe it was the USPS attributed 4 percent of its delivery cost to packages, competitive products, partial.

80 percent of the costs of the Postal Service is labor.

I do stand here very much in support of maintaining, sustaining, resurrecting, and otherwise making sure the Postal Service stays alive for a very, very long time and continues to serve the American public.

It should have a dual purpose: First being a shield, a shield to protect those who have seen the wrongdoings...

So, when you present a case to the DOJ and they say, 'Well, there's just insufficient evidence to go before grand jury,' or, 'We don't think a criminal act has been committed,' and yet you know or you feel confident that it may have but…

But will they be protected? I mean, will they really be protected?