Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first of all, I appreciate the comments made by my colleague from North Carolina. It is even more meaningful to me because all during the time the regulations were coming on, I happened to be the one who was chairing the Environment and Public Works Committee, and we knew what was going to happen. I am almost speechless when I think about the success. We went 20 years only taking up 1 CRA, and then we end up passing 14 of them--all but 1. That is a huge, successful record. My colleagues understand, this gives us the opportunity for people who are answerable to the public--people who are elected and have to stand for elections--to have a part in what is sometimes considered to be the action of an unelected bureaucrat. We have had great opportunities here. I think the ``midnight'' regulations--a term that is used quite often--so that a party going out of office, such as President Obama, being very liberal--a very proud liberal, I might add--wanted to get as many of his rules in at the last minute. We were able to come in and pass these in the time required. We were able to pass 14 of these, in addition to the other regulations and other methods of doing regulations, which I want to address a little bit. It is just not something that we really anticipated would happen.…”