Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself 4\1/2\ minutes. Madam Chair, I rise in support of my amendment, which would exempt rules to protect nuclear power plant safety from titles I, III, and V of the bill. It is rare that the premise of an entire week of legislative work on the House floor is wrong, but, here we are here. We are told this is ``regulatory week,'' during which House Republicans are supposedly working to see that the yoke of oppressive government regulation is thrown off and the American entrepreneur is freed to grow his or her business and increase jobs. In thinking about this view, I am reminded of a famous line in Shakespeare's MacBeth, ``It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'' We have heard, and will continue to hear, a lot of sound and fury this week on the House floor, but just like all the other regulatory bills the House has passed this year, what we pass this week will die in the Senate as well. So all of that talk will signify nothing. Like health care repeal, on which we have taken 33 votes, this, too, is a tremendous waste of time. More importantly, there is no evidence to support the position that overregulation is the major cause of our slow economic growth and high unemployment rate. According to the Economic Policy Institute, ``economy-wide studies do not find a significant decline in employment from regulatory policies.'' The real culprit of our slow growth and high unemployment is reduced aggregate demand.…”