Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member from Maryland. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to another attempt by Republicans to undermine due process protections, prevent the President from finalizing rules during his last months in office, and override collective bargaining rights for Federal employees. In fact, this bill, H.R. 4361, eliminates the ability of agencies to issue rules toward the end of a President's term, assuming some kind of shoddy rulemaking to finalize a rule before a President's term is up. This kind of assumption is wrong. There is nothing shoddy going on. The Administrative Conference of the United States found most end-of-term rules related to routine matters or were issued in response to deadlines outside of the agency's control. This is nothing more than another effort to reverse the will of the American people when they reelected President Obama in 2012 by impairing the ability of our government to function in the last months of his term. Additionally, H.R. 4361 is like Christmas in July for those opposed to the labor rights of our fellow Americans, including anti-family provisions and provisions of dubious constitutionality. Specifically, this bill exempts from collective bargaining requirements any action taken by an agency head to limit, restrict, or prohibit access to a Web site that the agency head determines presents a security risk to the agency's IT systems.…”