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“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I am offering this amendment on behalf of myself and my colleague on the Judiciary Committee, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Let me begin by expressing my appreciation to Chairman Sessions and Ranking Member Slaughter for their leadership and for making the Jackson Lee amendment in order. Thank you for the opportunity to explain this amendment to H.R. 1155, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2015, referred to as the SCRUB Act. This amendment would exempt any rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security from the onerous mandates of this legislation. If enacted, the SCRUB Act would establish a retrospective regulatory review commission to identify existing Federal regulations that can be repealed to reduce unnecessary regulatory costs to the U.S. economy. This bill purports to reduce bureaucracy by establishing a new regulatory review commission charged with identifying duplicative, redundant, or so-called obsolete regulations to repeal. I am offering this amendment because I am concerned about the procedural process by which the SCRUB Act attempts to accomplish this worthy goal and the real and potential dangers this legislation presents to our public health and safety. If passed without this amendment, this legislation could really undermine and jeopardize public health and safety.…”