Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, job creators across a wide range of industry have sent urgent calls to Washington pleading for Congress to remove burdensome regulations that could destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with two of America's job creators, Karl Watson from Houston, Texas, who represents CEMEX, a global leader in the building materials industry, and Brad Slabaugh of Hilltop Basic Resources, a small building materials and ready-mixed concrete producer from Ohio. While these job creators may hail from different regions of the country, and one employs thousands of workers, versus the one that employs several hundred middle class Americans, they both face the same challenges under the Obama administration's oppressive regulatory regime. That is why Mr. Watson and Mr. Slabaugh came to Washington this week, to discuss their real world examples of how the Obama administration burdensome regulatory policy is devastating to the concrete production industry and to virtually all American employers and job creators. The worst offender that is inflicting this regulatory flaw under the Obama administration is the Environmental Protection Agency. This week the House is tackling some of the most economically dangerous regulations that the EPA has imposed on our Nation's creators, Boiler MACT and Cement MACT.…”