Political Quotes

“We have mandated relief language in this bill. We also say that we want to decrease the total amount of regulation on this economy downward to a lower percentage of the gross domestic product. Why? Because the lower that amount of regulation is, the more jobs that get created because regulation is a job killer. It increases prices and it kills jobs. We actually have a provision in here that says that the standing committees--and I say that to my colleagues though we have never even talked about this provision--that we would give the standing committees authority to only regulate to a certain percentage of the GDP. They could not regulate beyond it because regulations beyond it will kill jobs in this country. It is a very unique concept that we are going to begin to push the rest of this year. I want to say to the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Nussle] that he touched on a very important point about trusting people at home. Part of the way in which we pay for this budget--and it drives me crazy when I try to explain to people why it is we cannot get this adopted--but if you take the nutrition programs of the Federal Government and you put them altogether and you block-grant them to the States, you can save money and increase the amount of money that goes to feed poor people. Now, why is that? Because if you start money in a Federal agency, every hand that it touches, you are burning up the money.…”