"I appreciate your clearing it up."
"It is wrong to question this President on those issues once the facts have come out to show that it was not a partisan or issue-driven area."
"War Eagle. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am excited. Not really."
"We are supposed to be lawmakers and not messengers."
"the Administrative Procedure Act is an 'administrative Constitution' that attempts to strike a balance between the need for due process and fairness, on the one hand, and the need for agencies to be a..."
"This bill does nothing to improve the rulemaking and will only serve to stymie agencies from ensuring that health safety and welfare of the American people are protected."
"we must approach proposals that would make dramatic changes to the APA with caution, if not some considerable skepticism."
"the bill's proponents have not met that burden."
"regulations are critical to protecting the American people from a vast array of harms, including dirty air and water, dangerous toys, reckless financial behavior, and unsafe workplaces."
"I don't understand what you are saying, that all this is about high-income people's preferences."
"You shouldn't be doing that without particularly good reasons, and I don't think the burden of proof which you would have in amending the Constitution, which has very high thresholds, has been met by ..."