I share the gentleman's concerns about the impact of regulations on jobs, but I submit that the right way to address that concern is to join me in supporting the bill. The bill includes transparency requirements sure to increase public…

I rise as the designee of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), and I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 16, line 5, strike the…

On multiple occasions before, I have discussed the overwhelming burden of the regulatory state on American workers and employers. For the past year, it has been my primary objective, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform…

I offer this amendment with my colleague, Chairman Chaffetz, as a manager's amendment to the bill. The amendment makes a small number of revisions in the nature of technical and conforming changes to clarify revisions that state deadlines…

I have some information I would like to bring to the attention of the Members. It is a document from Investor's Business Daily. It is a very simple statement, but it is a very large fact: If we had a Reagan-paced job recovery, we would…

I respectfully rise in opposition to the amendment. The amendment strikes the bill's title providing for judicial review of agency compliance with requirements for repeal of existing rules and publication of plans for decennial review of…

Here in Washington, it is often difficult to see the true breadth and effect of the nearly $2 trillion regulatory burden imposed by Federal regulations, but in my Pennsylvania district, you see these burdens in everyday life. Across the…

I want to thank Chairman Shuster and Ranking Member DeFazio for their work and express my appreciation for the opportunity to serve as a conferee. There are several significant items in this bill that fall within the jurisdiction of the…

the less Federal Government in my life, the better.

If our military families' members and their families stationed in Japan can lose their children so easily in violation of our constitutional protections, then the military will need to rethink its policy of allowing family members to…

How can we expect Japan to ever resolve more complicated divorce and child custody issues if it cannot even resolve this very straightforward case where one parent is deceased and a nonparent is withholding the child from a loving parent…

Signing the Hague was simply a smokescreen devised by Japan to relieve international pressure.

However, if Japan rules against me and violates this fundamental bond between parent and child and continue their pattern of denying access to parents of abducted children and fail to expeditiously return abducted children under the Hague…

A parent does not have the burden of proving that he or she can raise the child better than a nonparent.

Japan expeditiously ruling in my favor will sanctify the sacred bond between parent and child.

It has been a priority of mine to encourage the DEA to collaborate with companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain to address prescription drug abuse.

This is one of the most pressing areas that I believe demands congressional action.

Without objection, so ordered.

This is extremely concerning from an anticompetitive standpoint and a patient care perspective.

This needs to be addressed.

This is of particular concern, and especially to one certain gentleman that happens to be very close to me, and that is my father.

I thank Chairman Goodlatte for yielding. For two terms now, enacting legislation to streamline the Federal permitting process has been among my primary goals. Three times now, this House has passed the RAPID Act, a bill that I sponsored in…

I, too, am a maniac for the rule of law.

when elephants fight, the only thing that loses is the grass, okay? And the grass is the people that you serve.

I support the amendment. It is bad enough that agencies already take too much time to conclude construction permit reviews. It is even worse for them to draw out the process on the basis of junk science. And that is precisely what the…