Political Quotes

“I yield myself the remainder of the time, Mr. Chairman. You know, Mr. Chairman, to bring about real and durable job recovery, there can be only one conclusion about what the House can do today, and it should vote to pass the RAPID Act. My friend on the other side talks about the post office, and I support them. My mother worked for the post office. But you know something? The post office is self-funded, okay? Where is the $1 trillion that this administration put into the so- called stimulus? It did nothing. It wasn't applied properly. It wasn't utilized. This doesn't cut regulations, this legislation. It doesn't cut regulations. It cuts making a decision from 15 years down to 4.5 years. Just think in our households, how many of us would have delayed by years making decisions, were it be. This is bipartisan legislation that would transform into immediate action the recommendations of the President's Jobs Council, the exhortations of Vice President Biden, and the promises President Obama made. The President's Jobs Council stated that our system for permitting and approving job-creating projects leads to delays and litigation and recommended in 2011 that the process be streamlined. The RAPID Act does that. President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union Address, promised action to slash bureaucracy and streamline the permitting process, so we can get more construction workers on the job as fast as possible. The RAPID Act delivers that.…”