Political Quotes

“I will submit if this bill passes as written, there will be a lot of people smiling who are deliberately and willfully and intentionally failing to fill out paperwork which relates to the public safety, the public health and the environment of the country. That is where the smiles might be coming from. But they are sure not coming from this side. There is a lot of discussion about the reduction of paperwork we have heard here. Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to make it very clear that the controversial positions that the administration and I are opposing have nothing to do with reducing paperwork. The administration strongly opposes H.R. 391 in the statement of administration policy, which says, in part, and I quote, the waiver provision, the waiver provision for first time violators. The bad actors, not the people who want to keep the law, not the good Americans out there who are faithfully doing the right thing, who are filling out the forms, who are running those businesses who we salute, but the bad actors would get off.”