Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, another rule on the chopping block is to update heavy machinery emergency brakes. Does my colleague also want to roll back this rule, a rule that will save lives? If the will of the people is truly that we roll back these lifesaving measures, my colleagues should have the bravery to vote down each rule individually. Then you can tell your happy constituents that you voted for lead poisoning, and you voted for not implementing a national suicide hotline. Let me say this: The gentleman from Arizona gets it exactly backward. First of all, he says the cost of all of the regulations is $1.2 trillion. What are the benefits? Maybe they are far greater than that. We ought to know. If you find a rule that you think is wrong, if you think the cost of this rule outweighs the benefits, fine, bring a CRA to the floor. That is not what this bill does. This bill says don't bring a CRA to the floor. Bring a combination of 25 or 30 CRAs to the floor so that you can't examine them individually. Maybe some of them make sense. Maybe, in some cases, the regulation outweighs the benefits, or the cost outweighs the benefits. Maybe in another case, it is a different regulation, the benefits outweigh the costs. We should look at it as an individual CRA. That is why the CRA process was designed. What this bill does is to upend that process by saying we are not going to look at the individual regulation.…”