"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..."
"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----"
"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 ..."
"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?"
"There will obviously be significant rules that will come out of those, many of them with millions of dollars of impact on the economy."
"I would like to be able to defer to Mr. Connolly, my ranking member, for 5 minutes of questions."
"At some point it gets absurd. But you can always say, but it will save it a life."
"The application of it, though, will be interesting to see if it has political consequences with it as well."
"So just to clarify on it, $100 million nationwide, so $2 million per State, added altogether in aggregate, that suddenly becomes an unfunded mandate."
"Ultimately on onerousness Congress has the final say."
"So that one should come back to the legislative branch."
"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."