Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that this bill will make it too hard for Washington bureaucrats to regulate and too cumbersome for Washington agencies to tell the American people what the agencies are up to. You might say they are claiming that this bill creates so much sunshine on our new regulations that Washington's regulators will get sunburned if the bill is enacted. In the Obama administration's pen and phone era of encroaching on Americans' liberties, that much new sunshine is a good thing. In the Obama administration's era of regulatory dictates that crush new jobs and prevent higher wages, the new sunshine is desperately needed. A central reason why the Obama administration has failed to deliver prosperity and security to our Nation is the administration's unprecedented avalanche of new and costly regulations. This regulatory onslaught is the big reason why we have just concluded 8 years of zero real wage growth for America's workers and families. It is a critical reason why 94 million Americans above the age of 16 are out of the workforce. It is an unmistakable reason why we are still missing the almost 6 million more new jobs Americans would have had if the so- called Obama recovery had just been as strong as the average recovery since World War II. This bill combats the Obama administration's regulatory assault on jobs and wages with commonsense measures we all should support.…”