Steve Cohen: “I want to thank the ranking member for the time. I have a nice speech that was written by a fantastic staffer that I'm…”

“I want to thank the ranking member for the time. I have a nice speech that was written by a fantastic staffer that I'm not going to use today because I've used it in the past. Most of the speeches today have been used--or parts of them--on the other bills we've had. Because of what we've done this week and the wonderful gentlemen on the opposite side--Mr. Smith and Mr. Coble are two great, wonderful people who I think dearly of. They just have different philosophies than I have. Different perspectives. These bills have been bills to basically be anti-government bills. That's what this Congress has been about. It's been about being anti- government, and it's been about defeating the President of the United States. These bills which we've got would destroy the Administrative Procedure Act and destroy the whole process of government that we've known for decades. The fact is, President Bush had as many, if not more, rules than President Obama; but we didn't hear from the other side anything about the nefarious rulemaking process, the need for reform, the jobs that could be created by eliminating the rulemaking authority or stifling it and changing it, until President Obama became the President. We heard this morning from the other side that it's the administration that's at fault because of all the rules they've produced, and now they say some of rules can change. They say the administration is at fault for all the rules they passed.…”