Political Quotes

“When you look at the regulatory framework that we have, this House is soon to consider a bill known as the REINS Act. It's a very simple bill. It basically says to the agencies that are staffed by bureaucrats, not by individuals who are elected, who are accountable-- the people in this House are accountable. We stand for election every 2 years. We get a performance review every 2 years. I tell the people in my district I'm their employee. I'm the employee of about 705,000 people, and I get a performance review every couple of years. Well, you know, the regulators, we need a check and a balance on them. {time} 1945 So there's a thing called the REINS Act, a very simple bill that talks about if an agency puts out a regulation that's going to have an impact on this economy of $100 million or more. And as the gentleman from Colorado said earlier, the SBA, the Small Business Administration, has said that the cost of complying with all the regulations in our Federal Register is $1.8 trillion across the economy. The REINS Act says if you have $100 million or more in a regulation that's going to go on the economy, it comes back to the Congress for a vote. We get to take accountability there. And so we get to assess whether the cost benefit is going to be good for this economy and good for the American people. Otherwise, the out- of-control government is going to continue to choke our communities and our businesses. And what happens? Middle class jobs are lost. Power plant workers.…”