But the last thing we would want to do is to be able to try to put out the word and say this group gets a higher score based on the fact that they are unionized, and discourage other people from engaging in a competitive environment.

So the report wasn't consistent with the policy, and so the report is set aside.

Right. Well, there is a significant challenge for a local municipality that the Department of Transportation says your street signs are not reflective enough, so you have to change all of your street signs.

But that is the challenge, because once you start getting into those assumptions and you start evaluating it, it is very difficult for me to be able to say let's hand that to an agency and if private industry or if the government, State…

But you would not suggest that we have a judicial review process or a legislative review that may come back over here, if there is a question that it comes back over for a legislative determination to say this was the legislation, the…

I would like to be able to defer to Mr. Connolly, my ranking member, for 5 minutes of questions.

But is that a waiver that needs to be done or is that something that needs to be established as a process to say regulation cannot go into effect until----

It is my hope that we can also discern issues that must be addressed in a legislative solution to our unfunded mandates.

So just to clarify on it, $100 million nationwide, so $2 million per State, added altogether in aggregate, that suddenly becomes an unfunded mandate.

At some point it gets absurd. But you can always say, but it will save it a life.

What are your thoughts on the private sector and regulations that are coming down on them, as well as the public sector?

If I say that global warming is caused by manmade pollution, suddenly everything that we do that ever relates to global warming, it is we are saving the planet.

How do we keep a group with so much authority and so little accountability from getting this tunnel vision that you talk about in your book?

This is a piece of legislation that desperately needs repair, and I am sure we will have very robust conversations on the solutions to repair it.

So it is down the hall, but it is still within the same agency.

The application of it, though, will be interesting to see if it has political consequences with it as well.

Ultimately on onerousness Congress has the final say.

There will obviously be significant rules that will come out of those, many of them with millions of dollars of impact on the economy.

So that one should come back to the legislative branch.

It seems to me the market has driven this.

I can tell you in my State, for the energy companies in my State, they are struggling with EPA right now over 316(b).

We need to talk about future exploration.

It is not creating certainty in what prices are going to be, where they can invest and what they can do.

If there is any area that I can tell you from energy companies that I talk to and I interact with in my district, it is the sense of uncertainty.

We just don't do business as efficiently as we could because of integration.