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.

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.

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 able effectively to carry out their…

H.R. 2122's expanded use of formal rulemaking procedures for 'high-impact' rules strikes me as an unnecessary procedural expansion that would not serve to improve the quality of rulemaking while at the same time adding major costs to the…

we must approach proposals that would make dramatic changes to the APA with caution, if not some considerable skepticism.

We are supposed to be lawmakers and not messengers.

I think that what he said was wrong.

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 the proponents of this bill.

Most regulations are for the purpose of protecting society, and that is what they do.

The Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act proposes some needlessly drastic measures that threaten to undermine public health and safety and waste public resources.