This bill would impede many of the routine functions of government.

I am not opposed to all regulation. I repeat, not opposed to all regulation.

H.R. 4078 is premised on the false assertion that regulations undermine job creation.

It is basically the lack of demand, the destruction of the middle class, which has been done over and over through laws and policies, advocated by the majority of this House of Representatives.

This bill, the Regulatory Freeze for the Jobs Act is an instrument that creates a mistaken cure for a problem that doesn't exist.

Increased regulation erodes the rule of law, and invites corruption.

There is no ascertainable link between regulations and unemployment.

Much current regulation is ineffective and doesn't accomplish the ends that the regulation is intending to achieve.

I have no doubt that the proponents of these bills, including Rep. Jim Cooper, my esteemed fellow Tennessee Democrat and sponsor of H.R. 3041, are sincere in their belief that these bills will achieve a better balance in the way consent…

H.R. 3041 would seem to have the effect of discouraging consent decrees against state and local governments and officials.

There was a need for that consent decree, and that--the Governor didn't want to have it.