Political Quotes

“I want to thank Mr. Latta for bringing this very thoughtful amendment to the House floor, and I want to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who, I believe, agreed to accept it, if I heard that correctly. The bill would codify the forbearance of 700 regulations into law, as you probably heard, Madam Chair. However, we just don't know what those 700 provisions that are being forborne upon are. We have repeatedly asked for that information in the subcommittee, in the full committee, and every step of the way. {time} 1645 In fact, I don't think the authors of this legislation could tell us today what those 700 provisions are, although they get referenced from time to time. We are told that is really the underpinning and crux of this legislation, that, in all these areas of law, the FCC said, ``We are not going to, basically, regulate in this area,'' and they said there are about 700 of these. So I think it does matter, if you are in business or just whatever you do in your life, to not know what the government--a pretty big, powerful government here in Washington--is going to enforce or not enforce or regulate or not regulate, and we don't know. But we are being asked today, in this bill, to enshrine in Federal law the whole 700 of these that the FCC--not this one, not a future one, we are told--would ever regulate in. So we want the list. That is what this amendment asks for.…”