Political Quotes

“I submit to my friend from Michigan that we have laws now that have created a lot of problems and still have sunsets, but yet the law and the programs created under the law still continue. A case in point is we have not reauthorized the Endangered Species Act, yet it has been funded and it comes on today. Many of those kinds of rules and regulations that we are going to have to deal with that really have an impact on communities--wetlands, endangered species, clean water, all of these acts--are now being funded and are in place, but have not been reauthorized by this Congress. I suggest, if we have created a problem through this piece of legislation, we can fix it or unfix it here. But when we rely on a sunset to fix the problem, it does not get fixed. In fact, it rolls on and it is a lot easier to say, ``Well, we will not reauthorize that this year.”