Jim Inhofe: “I wanted more time, but I think almost everything has been said, except only in Washington can we have the opinion that…”

“I wanted more time, but I think almost everything has been said, except only in Washington can we have the opinion that no good decision is made unless it is made in Washington, DC. We had a news conference some time ago--in October--about what the regulations cost the American people. The average family of four right now pays $6,800 a year just for these regulations. In the Clinton administration, the average number of pages of regulations per day in the Federal Register was 319. The previous record was 280 pages. I remember when OSHA first started. I was in the State senate at that time. I remember when I was in Michigan and I held a book up and said-- I was going to talk to the National Association of Manufacturers. I said: I bet I can close down anybody in here just with these regulations. One guy called me on it and we went out and closed him down. Overregulation is an extremely burdensome thing. I think as far as the extreme broad reach of this program, single incident trigger--all these points have been made. I want to just bring it closer to home and share with you a couple of things and ask that they be put in the Record. We have had over 1,000 letters from the various businesses and others who believe their businesses have been threatened.”